6G promotion group leader: China will achieve 6G commercialization by 2030

The development of 6G communication technology is one of the focuses of global attention today. How far has China's 6G technology progressed? How far is it from ordinary people? Yesterday, CCTV reporters interviewed Wang Zhiqin, the leader of China's 6G promotion group.

Reporter: Everyone is very concerned about how far 6G has progressed.

6G promotion group leader, deputy director of China Information and Communication Research Institute, Wang Zhiqin: 6G technology is a new technology for the 5G generation update. Mobile communication is one generation every ten years, so looking at 6G, its commercialization time is basically around 2030, and its standardization time will be in 2025.

6G promotion group leader, deputy director of China Information and Communication Research Institute, Wang Zhiqin: 6G proposes three new scenarios, the combination of communication and perception, and the combination of communication and artificial intelligence, as well as ubiquitous Internet of Things, which is the integration of heaven and earth that is popular now. The objects that 6G will connect in the future are not only people but also many intelligent agents, such as robots and metaverse. Now everyone thinks that 5G may further improve some scenarios that are not well solved in the industry.

For ordinary people, when it comes to 6G, the most basic feeling is that it will be faster than 5G, but Wang Zhiqin told reporters that 6G is not just a fast word.

6G promotion group leader, deputy director of China Information and Communication Research Institute, Wang Zhiqin: After 5G, now we talk about rate increase everyone will also feel whether it is necessary. The objects of 6G service in the future are more about social management and governance, and more biased towards intelligent agents.

The current 5G base station only supports the transmission and reception of communication signals, while in the 6G era, the base station will also support communication and perception, and can use radio waves to sense the surrounding environment, object shape and movement, etc., which can not only improve communication performance but also create new businesses.

6G promotion group leader, deputy director of China Information and Communication Research Institute, Wang Zhiqin: The current mobile communication network is a very large network system, and there are many base stations. Based on the base station, we hope to do some perceptual work. Do low-altitude economy, and directly upgrade the base station, it will have the ability to perceive so that you can manage the airspace of drones. There are also some traffic intersections, after upgrading these base stations, you can see the entire traffic flow, which is as some traffic management.

Wang Zhiqin told reporters that at present, the world is still in the stage of technical research on 6G development, and there is no unified standard for 6G network architecture and key technologies. China started the 6G technology test work last year, and this year also carried out research on 6G system architecture and technology solutions, which will also lay the foundation for the next step of 6G promotion.

Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: Will cultivate 6G application ecology ahead of time

Yesterday, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced that China is orderly carrying out 6G-related technology tests and solidly promoting 6G innovation and development.

Deputy Minister of Industry and Information Technology Zhang Yunming: It is very necessary to cultivate 6G application ecology ahead of time. Accelerate the integration and development of 5G with new industries and new applications such as XR, digital twin, robot, etc., accelerate the maturity of related industries, and consolidate the 6G application foundation. Promote close communication and cooperation between information and communication enterprises and vertical industry enterprises, jointly participate in 6G demand research, technology research and development, standard setting, and other full-process links, and work together to build a prosperous 6G application ecology.

At present, the industry generally believes that 6G communication capability will reach more than 10 times that of 5G, and the development from 5G to 6G is a process from the Internet of Everything to "Intelligent Interconnection of Everything, Digital Twin". 6G will promote immersive holographic video, and realize the linkage of the three worlds the physical world, the virtual world, and the human world. In June this year, the International Telecommunication Union completed the 6G vision demand proposal, clarifying the typical products and key capability indicators of 6G, and the 5 types of 6G typical scenarios and 14 key capability indicators proposed by China were all adopted.

It is understood that China established the 6G promotion group in 2019, systematically promoted the work of demand, technology, standards, and international cooperation, and launched the 6G technology test.

China's 6G plan provides a technical path for intelligent interconnection of everything

Yesterday, China's 6G promotion group also released for the first time the "6G Network Architecture Outlook" and "6G Wireless System Design Principles and Typical Features" and other technical solutions, which will provide a technical path for 6G from the Internet of Everything to the Intelligent Interconnection of Everything.

The "6G Network Architecture Outlook" proposes the design principles and network capabilities of the 6G network architecture. The "6G Wireless System Design Principles and Typical Features" combines the 6G deployment and networking requirements, and forms the 6G wireless system functions and operation characteristics and design principles.

It is understood that 6G will become a bridge connecting the physical world and the digital world, meeting the needs of connecting people, things, and intelligent agents anytime, anywhere, and on demand. Therefore, the future 6G network will not only be faster and more reliable than 5G but also need to promote the cross-domain integration and development of mobile communication, artificial intelligence, perception, computing, etc.