CCTV News:The State Council Press Office held a press conference on April 18th. At the press conference, the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that in the first quarter, China’s information and communication industry developed steadily, with a total of 3.647 million 5G base stations built.
In the first quarter, the telecom business revenue reached 443.7 billion yuan, up 4.5% year-on-year, and the overall growth remained steady. By the end of March, a total of 3.647 million 5G base stations had been built in China, and the penetration rate of 5G users exceeded 60%. There were 24.56 million ports with gigabit network service capacity, and the world’s first 400G all-optical inter-provincial backbone network link was officially commercialized.
Zhao Zhiguo, spokesperson and chief engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that at present, the fastest or highest transmission speed in the world is 400G, and China has now opened a 400G link for commercial use, thus better supporting the efficient interconnection of computing power and data elements across subjects, types and regions.
In the first quarter, China’s mobile Internet traffic increased by 14.3% year-on-year. Up to now, 5G applications have been integrated into 74 of the 97 national economic categories. Scale promotion in key areas such as industry, mining, electric power and medical care, and the number of "5G+ Industrial Internet" projects exceeds 10,000. In the first quarter, China’s mobile phone shipments, especially 5G mobile phones, reached 56.43 million units, accounting for 83.7% of the mobile phone shipments in the same period, which reflected that the demand for high-end or smart 5G mobile phones was relatively large.
Zhao Zhiguo said that breakthroughs in key technologies have been accelerated, and the commercial verification of 5G with full coverage in high, medium and low frequency bands has been completed. The research and development performance indicators of quantum computing prototypes have been continuously improved, and breakthroughs have been made in quantum error correction test verification, and the industrial strength has been steadily improved. In terms of personal application, generative artificial intelligence is also widely popularized in chat bots, intelligent search, text generation and other applications.
The penetration rate of 5G users exceeding 60% will accelerate the research and development of 6G and 10 Gigabit optical networks.
On the morning of April 18th, the State Council Press Office held a press conference. When introducing the latest development of China’s information and communication industry, the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that the next step would be to speed up the research and development of 6G and 10Gigabit optical networks.
Zhao Zhiguo introduced that in the first quarter of 2024, China’s telecom business revenue reached 443.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4.5%. By the end of March 2024, the cumulative number of 5G base stations in China had reached 3.647 million, and the penetration rate of 5G users had exceeded 60%.
In terms of artificial intelligence, the number of related enterprises in China has exceeded 4,500, and innovations such as smart chips and general large models have accelerated. The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that the next step will be to accelerate the breakthrough of basic key core technologies and products such as smart chips, large model algorithms and frameworks around the underlying technologies of large models.
Tao Qing, director of the Operation Monitoring and Coordination Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, introduced that the integrated application of artificial intelligence technology in the whole manufacturing process should be deepened, and special actions to empower new industrialization with artificial intelligence should be carried out for key industries with great impact on the national economy, strong driving force and good digital foundation.
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