Construction of digital infrastructure in our country

Those who do often succeed, those who do often come, and history never fails those who do.

June 6, 2019 is a significant day in the process of 5G commercialization in China. On this day, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued 5G commercial licenses to China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Broadcasting and Television, and China officially entered the first year of 5G commercial use. According to data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, in terms of direct economic and social contribution, it is expected that between 2020 and 2025, the total economic output directly driven by 5G commercial use in China will reach 10.6 trillion yuan. The tide is stirring and the springs are rushing. China has become the first country in the world to build a 5G network based on an independent networking model. By the end of 2022, China has built 2.31 million 5G base stations; China declared 18,000 5G standard essential patent families, accounting for nearly 40% of the global total.

There is no small matter in the people's livelihood, and the branches and leaves are always related to the situation.

"Compared with cities, rural Internet infrastructure construction is our weakness. It is necessary to increase investment, accelerate the pace of rural Internet construction, and expand the effective coverage of optical fiber network and broadband network in rural areas." 

From the launch of the "Broadband China" strategy, to the full implementation of the information into villages and households project, and the promotion of network speed and cost reduction, optical fiber broadband has crossed the mountains and oceans to connect every corner of the land of China. At present, China has achieved "broadband access in every village", "5G access in every county" and "gigabit access in every city", and "same network and same speed" in rural and urban areas has been basically realized, and the digital divide between urban and rural areas has been effectively bridged.

The strong momentum of 5G development has promoted the mobile Internet of Things to enter a new period of rapid development.

This is an exciting news - China has become the first major economy in the world to achieve "superhuman" country. As of August 2022, China's three basic telecommunications enterprises have developed mobile Internet of Things terminal users to reach 1.698 billion, more than the number of mobile phone users, and built the world's largest mobile Internet of Things network. A series of policy documents such as the Notice on Comprehensively Promoting the Construction and Development of the Mobile Internet of Things (NB-IoT) and the Notice on Deeply Promoting the Comprehensive Development of the Mobile Internet of Things have been released and implemented. In recent years, under the guidance of policy support and the joint efforts of all parties, China's mobile Internet of Things has been deeply integrated into all fields of economic and social development, and the number of mobile Internet of things connections has accounted for more than 70% of the global proportion.

Accelerating the large-scale deployment of IPv6 is an urgent requirement to accelerate the construction of a network power, accelerate the national informatization process, help economic and social development, and win new advantages in future international competition.

As early as 2003, China launched China's next-generation Internet demonstration project CNGI, and carried out live network trials in 2006. In 2008, China built the world's largest IPv6 pure next-generation Internet, and achieved relevant leading technology and application achievements; Since then, the development of China's IPv6 industry has accelerated, and by 2014, 100 million IPv6 supporting terminals have been listed... As the country that carried out IPv6 experiment and application earlier in the world, China has made important achievements in technology research and development, network construction and application innovation, and has the foundation and conditions for large-scale deployment of IPv6.

In November 2017, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and The General Office of the State Council issued the Action Plan for Promoting the Large-scale deployment of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), proposing to accelerate the large-scale deployment of IPv6 and build a high-speed, widespread, full coverage and intelligent next-generation Internet.

In March 2021, the Outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development and the 2035 Vision Goals of the People's Republic of China proposed to expand the number of backbone network interconnection nodes, set up a number of new international communication gateways, and comprehensively promote the commercial deployment of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6).

Since then, the CAC and other departments have successively issued documents such as the Notice on Accelerating the Large-scale Deployment and Application of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), organized and actively carried out the pilot work of IPv6 technological innovation and converged application, and comprehensively and deeply promoted the large-scale deployment and application of IPv6.