China News Service, Beijing, October 3, Title: [Ten Years of Chinese Style] "5G+Everything", Chinese people break into a new world of digital life. Reporter Song Yusheng "The 5G signal at the top of the peak is particularly good." In May 2020, the mountaineering team made a phone

China News Service, Beijing, October 3, Question: [Ten Years of Chinese Style] "5G+Everything", Chinese people break out of digital life new world

Reporter Song Yusheng

"The peak 5G signal is particularly good." In May 2020, the mountaineering team made a phone call through the 5G network at the top of Mount Everest . The high-definition video footage measured by the mountaineering team also realizes real-time sharing around the world through 5G network.

This year, the world's highest altitude 5G base station - a 5G base station located at Mount Everest , an altitude 6,500 meters Qianjin Camp, was put into use. In the same year, China's 5G penetrated 534 meters underground, and the first underground 5G network of the country's first coal mine was built, creating a record of the world's deepest underground 5G network at that time.

Within one year of commercial use, China's 5G set a record of "up the mountain" and "entering the ground". Now, three years have passed, how wide is China's 5G coverage?

The world's largest 5G network

In 2019, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China issued 5G licenses to operators, opening the first year of 5G commercial . In the same year, the three major operators officially announced the 5G package tariffs, and China's 5G commercialization process was fully launched.

At that time, foreign media pointed out that this marked a key step in China's path to becoming a technology superpower. The BBC (BBC) directly reported on China's 5G development under the title "China launches 'The World's Largest 5G Network'". After the issuance of the

5G license, China's 5G network construction entered the "fast lane" and China accelerated its entry into the era of Internet of Things.

In July of this year, Monaco became the first country in the world to cover 5G networks. In the process, Chinese companies became one of Monaco's most reliable partners.

The outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic has made the world see the foresight of China's 5G layout.

2020, Reuters reported that "the network load was full during the epidemic, and China withstood this test. It is obviously indelible to make a contribution to moderate advance network construction. This also made everyone taste the sweetness of 5G network."

Hong Kong " South China Morning Post " article believes that after the outbreak of the epidemic, a large number of users need faster network connections and low latency to support a variety of applications, such as live broadcasts and remote meetings, and the long-term development of China's 5G mobile service industry will be accelerated.

Broadband Development Alliance report shows that in the fourth quarter of 2021, the comprehensive average download rate of China's mobile broadband users when using mobile broadband networks to access the Internet has reached 59.34Mbit/s. This data was less than 20Mbit/s in 2017.

Data picture China News Service reporter Chen Jimin

The hard-won 5G leads

This "new world" of digital life was created by the Chinese.

Once upon a time, China Mobile Communications career fell behind for a long time. Since the 1980s, a new generation of revolutionary technologies have emerged every 10 years in mobile communications. But the 1G that started is almost blank for China.

reported that China's mobile communication technology before 5G has been sorted out like this: In 1987, China officially entered the 1G era, and the "big brother" style was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but the core technologies and standards were firmly mastered by foreign companies; in 1994, 2G was launched in China, sending text messages became possible, and mobile phones became more and more popular; in 2009, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a 3G license, and higher bandwidth and more stable transmission speed made mobile Internet reality, and domestic mobile phones came with the trend; in 2013, the 4G license arrived as scheduled, and China's independently developed TD-LTE standard was widely used, giving birth to new business formats such as mobile payment and short videos.

has gone from "3G breakthrough", "4G synchronization" to "5G leadership". In the past ten years, China's mobile communication technology has finally completed the process from "catching up" to "leading".

data shows that the proportion of 5G standard essential patents declared by Chinese companies has reached 38.2%, and the cumulative number of application cases in the 5G industry has exceeded 20,000.

In today's China, 5G is interconnected with everything: 5G+industrial Internet, 5G+education, 5G+medical, 5G+agriculture, 5G+transportation, 5G+energy, 5G+VR, 5G+AI...

The envious 5G life

5G technology has also envied foreign netizens.

In 2019, on the YouTube platform, a video "Remote ethnic group rises above poverty in Yunnan, China" received rave reviews. It records the past and present comparison of the lives of Chinese ethnic minorities Dulong .

The main settlement of the Dulong tribe, Dulongjiang Township, Yunnan, is deep in the canyon and has harsh natural conditions. In the early days of the founding of New China, the Dulong tribe "spans a thousand years in one step", and directly transitioned from the end of the primitive society to socialist society . When the world enters the digital age, can the Dulong clan keep up with the times?

Many netizens found in the video that such a remote village actually has 5G, and many people expressed their envy.

From 2019 to the present, the efforts to fill the " digital divide " with 5G technology have been continuing. In July this year, 6 administrative villages in Dulongjiang Township achieved full coverage of 5G networks. E-commerce and live streaming products are gradually integrated into the daily lives of local people.

Singapore Lianhe Zaobao noticed that more and more bloggers are active in the short video platform "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" fields in China.

This depends on the leapfrog development of China's information infrastructure over the past decade.

data shows that China currently has the highest number of 5G base stations and mobile phone users in the world. As of the end of July, 1.968 million 5G base stations were built and opened nationwide, and 5G network coverage was achieved in all prefecture-level urban areas, county urban areas and 96% of townships and towns, and 475 million 5G mobile phone users reached 120 million, a net increase of 2021.

In the "Century Changes in the Centennials - Sculpture Works Exhibition" of the National Museum of China, a sculpture called "5G Era" records the specific moments of contemporary Chinese rural digital life - two old men happily sat on stone at the entrance of the village, held up their mobile phones high, and video calls with relatives far away.

Of course, what is frozen in the sculpture is also the unique Chinese 5G imprint of this era. (End)

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