China 5G News and Developments

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5G remote surgery performed in China

China Plus, January 20, 2019

Doctor Liu Rong operates remotely during surgery on a pig using 5G technology in Fuzhou, Fujian Province. [Photo/People.cn]

Chinese doctors have completed the world's first remote operation using 5G technology, reports people.cn.

The procedure has been conducted on a pig with the latest technology in Fujian Province.


Doctor Liu Rong was able to use a 5G connection to remotely control the robotic arms in a hospital 50 kilometers away. The 5G technology allowed the doctor to see a clear, real-time image of the operation, as well as communicate with his assistants.

A hepatic lobule was removed from the test animal in less than ten minutes, completing the tele-surgery successfully and neatly.

Liu Jingfeng, another doctor involved in the operation says the operation is proof that 5G technology is feasible for use in long-distance medicine.

http://www.china.org.cn/china/2019-01/20/content_74391295.htm

 

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5G park launched in East China

Xinhua, January 22, 2019

An "innovation park" centering on fifth-generation (5G) technology has been launched in Hangzhou, capital of East China's Zhejiang province.

A 5G-tech promotion stand at the recent China International Import Expo in Shanghai. [Photo by Jin Rong/For China Daily]

The park, located in the Hangzhou Future Sci-Tech City, is the first park in China completely covered by 5G and provides conditions for 5G technology research. The first phase of the park covers an area of 100,000 square meters. It is expected to become a renowned center for 5G technology development and application by 2025.

An opening ceremony was held Sunday in the Hangzhou Future Sci-Tech City, with more than 1,000 people in attendance. A total of 11 institutions and companies signed 10 agreements on 5G technology at the ceremony. The agreements included cooperation on developing the digital economy and the building of artificial intelligence (AI) research centers and smart vehicle testing platforms.

Experiments in sectors such as AI, AR/VR, drones, smart communities and smart logistics will be conducted in the park. Preferential policies will be offered to 5G ventures in the park.

With transmission speed significantly faster than 4G, 5G technology is expected to set off a new wave of digital economic growth, powering emerging industries like networked intelligent vehicles, virtual reality and mobile healthcare.

http://www.china.org.cn/business/2019-01/22/content_74397404.htm

 

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23-Jan-2019
Beijing to invest billions on building 5G network by 2022

CGTN

Beijing's communication operators will spend more than 30 billion yuan (around 4.4 billion U.S. dollars) on building a 5G network in the city by 2022, according to a 5G development plan.

The 5G network will cover the city's core zone, which is often defined as areas within the Second Ring Road, its subcenter in Tongzhou district, and areas and venues that serve important functions.

The technology will also be applied in major city infrastructure such as the new airport and during important events such as the Winter Olympics in 2022, according to the 2019-2022 plan published by Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology on Tuesday.

The city, home to many of the country's top tech companies, plans to develop its 5G-related industry to achieve 200 billion yuan of revenue by 2022, according to the plan.

"Obtaining breakthroughs on developing core components for the 5G network and putting them into industrial use is the primary task for developing the 5G industry in the city," said the plan.

Beijing will set up product innovation centers, special projects and manufacturing bases in the coming years for developing the key components including radio frequency parts and chips.

The city aims to have the tech companies reach a 10-percent share in the global 5G component market, according to the plan.

https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514e79496a4d32457a6333566d54/index.html

 

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Chinese airport launches 5G network
Source: Xinhua| 2019-01-26 00:02:12|Editor: Mu Xuequan

GUANGZHOU, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in south China's Guangdong Province launched a 5G base station Friday, marking it as the first 5G-covered airport in the country.

The speed of the network can reach 1.14 Gigabytes per second, around 50 times faster than the current 4G network, according to a test.

The base station was built by China Unicom's Guangzhou branch. It uses Huawei's 5G Lampsite, an in-depth radio coverage solution that supports indoor deployment in large to medium-sized sites.

Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport is a major airport in south China with air routes to more than 90 international and regional destinations. In 2017, it handled more than 65.8 million passenger trips.

Apart from the airport, Guangzhou also has 5G coverage in its city landmarks as well as important industrial parks.

 

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China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has first 5G base station
Source: Xinhua| 2019-01-27 13:09:38|Editor: zh

XINING, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau recently had its first 5G base station opened in the city of Xining, Qinghai Province, according to the Qinghai subsidiary of telecom firm China Mobile.

The service was opened last week. Currently, part of the city's downtown area is covered by 5G service, with a peak download speed of 1.3 Gbps, about 10 times that of 4G service.

The high altitude province of Qinghai has lagged behind in infrastructure construction. In April 2018, the local government vowed to develop new wireless technologies such as 5G network.

The province also plans to offer information services such as virtual reality and telemedicine thanks to faster internet speeds.

Officials with the company said 5G service is expected to improve communication between Qinghai's Tibetan-populated areas and the rest of the country by closing their information service gap.

 

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5G robot from China Mobile servicing customers.

 

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Technology 22:33, 28-Jan-2019
China streams its first 5G VR video - CGTN
Updated 22:57, 28-Jan-2019
By Gong Zhe

China successfully conducted its first test of 5G virtual reality (VR) video streaming on Monday.

Three companies jointly conducted the test.

- The VR video shooting technique was provided by China Central Television (CCTV), the parent company of CGTN;

- The network for video streaming was done by China Unicom, one of the three giant mobile carriers;

- The 5G infrastructures were made by Huawei, the telecom equipment giant.

The technology will be soon used in a real-life scenario: to do a live VR streaming of the 2019 chunwan gala.

This year's chunwan, set to be performed on February 4, will be held simultaneously at three locations: Beijing, Changchun and Shenzhen.

It's obviously impossible for a viewer to be at all these locations at the same time. So video streaming is required to have a full chuwan experience. And VR can greatly enhance that experience by providing a 360° view of all the locations.

To bring more hype to chunwan, CCTV will launch some interactive programs beforehand and highlight videos afterward.

This was one of a series of tests CCTV is conducting with 5G. The previous test was conducted by using 5G to stream 4k videos, which was also a success.

5G is not commercialized in China for now. But Huawei has already built the world's first 5G base station chip and the three carriers are building infrastructures for the service. The matured, commercial 5G service is set to launch in 2020.

VR is welcomed in China. While a lot of people don't know much about the technology, they see VR as a potentially great way of entertainment. There are also building designers using VR to show their work to investors in order to leave a deeper impression than flat video renders.

 

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China steps up 5G commercial use, adding value up to $4.4 trillion

Updated 19:52, 29-Jan-2019
Zhang Xinyuan

Despite the complicated international and domestic economic environment in 2018, the scale of the industrial industry in China continued its expansion, and the total national industrial added value surpassed 30 trillion yuan (4.4 trillion U.S. dollars) for the first time in 2018. Leading China to rank first in the world, said Miao Wei, head of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on a press release conference Tuesday this week.

Miao also said that China's industrial output above designated scale grew 6.2 percent year-on-year, which is better than expectations. The profit of industrial enterprises above designated size also increased by 10.3 percent year on year.

Another uptick is China's industrial investment. Manufacturing investment rose by 9.5 percent year on year in 2018, increasing for the past consecutive nine months, and investment in high-tech manufacturing saw growth of 16.1 percent, according to Miao.

Among the manufacturing investment, about 50 percent of total new investment was used at technologies upgrading, which is in line with China's goal of becoming a more advanced manufacturing powerhouse.

China will continue to push forward the development of quality manufacturing in 2019, boosting connected vehicles, 4K (Ultra HD) video transmission, cruise ship-building industry, information technology sector and telecommunication sector.

In 2018, China also lifted its access restrictions to foreign manufacturers of ship, plane and new-energy car. Meanwhile, the government also clarified the open-up schedules of other types of car manufacturers to international businesses. As of 2018, China has opened up it's entire general manufacturing to foreign investors. The country's manufacturing industry used 41.2 billion U.S. dollars in 2018, grew 22.9 percent year-on-year.

While the Chinese companies hit blocks while push 5G technologies overseas, it has made breakthrough domestically in 2018.

According to Miao, the third stage test of technical experiments for 5G research and development has been finished, and the 5G system's devices have the ability for pre-commercial use.

The development of 5G will significantly boost the Chinese economy; an MIIT official said that the first five years of implementing 5G would generate 10 trillion economic output and over three million new jobs. MIIT also released a time map for 5G commercial use, during the first half of 2019, China will launch 5G terminal chip, and in the middle of 2019, China will roll out 5G smartphone terminal. The commercialization of 5G will create many new opportunities, give the entire industrial chain of the chip, terminal, system and the application a strong boost.

China will also continue to improve the internet coverage rate in small cities and villages, by the end of 2020, 98 percent of the poverty strike villages will have the internet connection, letting more Chinese share the dividends of the information communications technology development.

 

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Shenzhen launches pilot project for 5G commercial use

Source:Global Times Published: 2019/2/11 22:38:52

Photo: VCG





Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong Province, known as China's Silicon Valley, has launched a pilot project for 5G commercial use.

Under this project, it will install 1,955 5G base stations this year to speed up applications such as the Internet of Things, smart manufacturing and connected vehicles, the Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reported on Monday.

The city aims to reach 851,000 users via 100M optical fiber cable this year. According to Shenzhen's 5G deployment plan, it will take the lead to carry out the commercial use of 5G technology, building small-scale networks in 2019.

"The benefits for Shenzhen to conduct a pilot program of the commercial uses of 5G technology are larger than any other cities in China, because Shenzhen has a large number of mobile phone companies and the most centralized mobile phone industry chain in the country," Wang Yanhui, head of the Shanghai-based Mobile China Alliance, told the Global Times on Monday.

As the home of Chinese tech firms such as Huawei, Oppo and Vivo, Shenzhen has more benefits in terms of 5G research and development, early layout and 5G tests so that tech firms can get used to 5G better and sooner, Wang noted.

The city will also improve the free Wi-Fi service in public places in order to provide a unified, safe and convenient internet to the public. Wang said it will take time to see whether consumers will accept 5G mobile phones, considering their prices and the area of coverage in Shenzhen.

Last year was an economic milestone for Shenzhen thanks to its flourishing high-technology development. The city's GDP reached 2.4 trillion yuan ($352.71 billion), with 7.5 percent growth on a year-on-year basis, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

The number is expected to surpass that of Hong Kong and ascend to the top five among all Asian cities, the People's Daily reported on Monday.

 

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我国光通信技术取得突破性进展：实现Pb/s级三超光传输

2019-02-12 20:24:37字号：A- A A+来源：观察者网

近日，从中国信息通信科技集团传来喜讯，我国光通信技术再次取得突破性进展。光纤通信技术和网络国家重点实验室、国家信息光电子创新中心、烽火通信和光迅科技经过联合研究攻关，在国内首次实现1.06Pbit/s超大容量波分复用及空分复用的光传输系统实验，传输容量是目前商用单模光纤传输系统最大容量的10倍，可以在1秒之内传输约130块1TB硬盘所存储的数据。该实验采用了国内在光传输系统技术、光器件和光芯片技术、光纤光缆技术上最领先的研究成果，标志着我国在“超大容量、超长距离、超高速率”光通信系统研究领域再次迈向了新的台阶。

该系统设备在C+L波段内产生了375个光载波，基于硅光相干收发芯片实现了25GHz通道内的178.18Gbit/s DFTs-PDM-16QAM信号光收发，在单模19芯光纤内完成了光传输验证，传输总容量达到1.06Pbit/s，净频谱效率达到了113bit/s/Hz。经第三方检测验证，此次实现的“1.06Pbit/s超大容量单模多芯光纤光传输系统”为国内首次，达到了国际先进水平。

同时，此次实验所使用的核心光芯片和光纤均为自主研制，具有完全自主知识产权。硅光相干收发芯片由国家信息光电子创新中心、光纤通信技术和网络国家重点实验室、光迅科技和烽火通信联合研制，在一个不到30mm2的硅芯片上集成了包括光发送、调制、接收等近60个有源和无源光元件，且能支持C+L波段同时工作，是目前国内集成度最高的商用光子集成芯片。这次通过工艺及技术突破，解决了单模十九芯光纤的通道间串扰难题，相邻纤芯的隔离度优于-40dB，把“车道”与“车道”之间的干扰和影响降到了最低。

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12-Feb-2019

Now in China! World's first 5G-operated port
By Gao Yun

The Port of Qingdao, located in east China's Shangdong Province, successfully finished container loading and unloading work using a remote-controlled bridge crane operating on a 5G network, making it the world's first to apply 5G technology in actual operation.

Instead of transmitting via optical fiber, the working process now can be monitored through 5G-based wireless transmission.

An intelligent port demands strong communication connection with low latency, large bandwidth and high reliability, as it faces complicated and changeable operational environment.

Optical fiber communication has high cost of construction, maintenance and operation, this is where 5G technology can prove its advantage, said Yang Jiemin, executive deputy manager of Qingdao New Qianwan Container Terminal Co., Ltd.

The 5G network helps solve costly and fault-prone problems caused by traditional methods, by largely improving operation efficiency of the terminal.

"Earlier, we had to connect optical fiber to the equipment for manipulation," said Yang, adding that "If 5G technology can be maturely used, our staff can remotely control the equipment anytime and anywhere, without geographical restrictions."

5G is not just for improving communication between people, but also for enhancing the connectivity between industries and the direction of "Internet of Everything", according to Shao Changqian, the manager of the Department of Network Development in Qingdao Branch of China Unicom.

The application will have a broad prospect and set a model for upgrading traditional docks worldwide, Shao added.

https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d414e30516a4e32457a6333566d54/index.html

 

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China expected to grant temporary 5G licenses in H1

China Daily, February 14, 2019

China's 5G is entering a new stage with the third phase of 5G technical tests nearly completed and operators have starting bidding and the temporary 5G licenses are expected to be granted in the first half of this year, according to a report by thepaper.cn.

The 5G base station and core network equipment have reached the pre-commercial use requirements, Chen Lidong, deputy head of information and communication services development at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), announced at a conference held by the IMT-2020 (5G) Promotion Group in Beijing on Jan 23, the report said.

The 5G enhancement and millimeter wave technology research and development test will be launched this year, according to the group.

On Jan 10, Miao Wei, minister of MIIT, said in an interview with China Central Television that China will grant temporary 5G licenses in several cities in the first half of this year to enable the large-scale construction of 5G networks in key regions and to accelerate the industrialization process of terminals and network construction.

Miao also said commercial products such as 5G smartphones will be launched in the second half of this year.

The 5G temporary license may be issued during World Telecom Day on May 17 this year and the 5G official license is expected to be issued by 2020, an insider of an operator told thepaper.cn. However, this statement has not yet been officially confirmed.

For China's three telecom carriers China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom, the relevant bidding work has already been launched.

On Jan 31, China Mobile announced its 5G procurement results for 2019 that five major equipment vendors including Huawei, Ericsson, ZTE, Nokia and Datang won the bid of its 500 5G base stations.

In addition, the Hubei branch of China Mobile announced on Feb 2 that China's first 5G smart highway project will launch in Hubei province and the smart charging tests are underway.

On Feb 2, China Telecom announced that it had taken the lead in realizing 5G core network interoperability among different manufacturers, becoming the first operator in the world to achieve SA (independent networking) interoperability in accordance with international the 3rd Generation Partnership Project, or 3GPP, standards.

This will strongly promote 5G SA equipment to accelerate the formation of large-scale networking capabilities, making 5Gresearch and development a key step towards large-scale commercial use.

Zhang Jianping, assistant chief engineer at the Shanghai branch of China Telecom, told thepaper.cn on Wednesday the company has already started building 5G network in the Hongqiao Business District of Shanghai, which is expected to provide the first batch of 5G capacity in the first half of this year.

Mai Yanzhou, deputy general manager of China Unicom, said China Unicom has started 5G networking trial in 16 cities and the pre-commercial application and commercial application are expected to be launched in 2019 and 2020 respectively.

Duan Bing, an analyst with Nomura, said 5G is expected to require 170,000 macro base stations this year, the report said.

"5G investment is about 50 percent higher than 4G investment, and 5G investment lasts about 6-7 years," Duan said.

http://www.china.org.cn/business/2019-02/14/content_74464943.htm

 

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East China province eyes large 5G coverage

2019-02-18 16:48:22 Xinhua Editor : Gu Liping

East China's Jiangxi province plans to cover its major cities and towns with 5G networks by 2023.

According to a recently-passed plan by the local government, the province will step up its efforts in constructing and expanding 5G networks in the following five years.

It aims to be a pioneer in the country in terms of large-scale commercial use of 5G technology in 2020, and it will be exemplary in the integrated use of 5G, becoming a key area featuring 5G industry in the country in 2023, according to the plan.

By 2023, the province also aims to have more than 10 companies focusing on 5G technology and bring in more than five leading 5G companies larger than 10 billion yuan ($1.48 billion) each.

The 5G industry in the province is expected to have a combined output value of 100 billion yuan by 2023, according to the plan.

http://www.ecns.cn/news/2019-02-18/detail-ifzeratr8870731.shtml

 

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15-Feb-2019

China Telecom issues first 5G mobile phone SIM card

Zhang Xinyuan

China Telecom, one of China's trio of telecommunications companies, has issued the country's first 5G mobile phone SIM card to Pan Shiyi, the chairman of office developer Soho China.

The move is a symbolic gesture as the SIM card cannot be put into use yet, but it reflects the cooperation between the two parties in the commercialization of the 5G network.

In January, China Telecom and Soho China reached an agreement whereby the former provides 5G network coverage to the latter's commercial properties in Beijing.

The telecommunications company has already started building 5G infrastructure in six real estates belonging to Soho China. Leeza Soho in Lize Financial Business District in Beijing's Fengtai District will become one of the first business properties to have 5G network coverage.

China Unicom and China Mobile have also revealed their 5G plans.

China Unicom said on its account on micro-blogging platform Weibo on Thursday that its 5G smartphone test machine has officially been delivered. Meanwhile China Mobile is focusing on the scale test of 5G terminals this year, with testing on a small scale launched in September and large scale in December.

According to the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China will expedite the launch of 5G commercialization licenses, and the country will launch 5G terminal chips in the first half of 2019, and smartphone terminals for 5G in mid-year.

https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d774e34457a4e32457a6333566d54/index.html

 

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at&t putting 5g logo on 4g phones and sims. make 4g great again