We will further deepen cooperation and sharing of telecommunications infrastructure

First, what is the background of the introduction of the Implementation Opinions?

The CPC Central Committee and The State Council attach great importance to the layout of infrastructure construction. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to optimize the layout, structure, function and system integration of infrastructure, and build a modern infrastructure system. The Overall Layout Plan for the Construction of Digital China emphasizes the need to consolidate the foundation for the construction of digital China, open up the major arteries of digital infrastructure construction, and accelerate the coordinated construction of 5G networks and Gigabit optical networks. The "14th Five-Year Plan" for the Development of the information and Communication industry clearly states that it is necessary to further promote the co-construction and sharing of telecommunications infrastructure and accelerate the construction of the "double gigabit" network.

Since 2008, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council have continuously promoted the joint construction and sharing of telecommunications infrastructure, issued implementation opinions for deployment every year, established mechanisms, clear rules, and strong assessment, reduced duplicate construction, saved resource consumption, and improved the utilization rate of telecommunications infrastructure, and achieved positive progress and remarkable results. In May 2020, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council jointly issued the Implementation Opinions on Promoting the Joint Construction and Sharing of Telecommunications Infrastructure to Support the Accelerated Construction and Development of 5G Networks, further optimizing the working mechanism for the joint construction and sharing of telecommunications infrastructure, giving full play to the role of the market, and providing an effective guarantee for accelerating the construction and development of 5G.

With the deepening of the co-construction and sharing of telecommunications infrastructure, the co-construction and sharing of telecommunications infrastructure is facing new situations and showing new characteristics. First, the "double gigabit" network represented by 5G and gigabit optical networks has entered the stage of rapid development and construction, and there is an urgent need to optimize the "double gigabit" network construction environment and greatly improve the coverage level of the "double gigabit" network. Second, the social facilities in the fields of power, municipal, transportation and other areas are rich in resources, and have become the high-quality carrier of the deep coverage of the "double gigabit" network, and cross-industry resource sharing has gradually become an effective way to improve the efficiency and efficiency of the "double gigabit" network construction and avoid repeated construction and resource waste. Third, with the construction and development of rural "double gigabit" network, the demands of rural communication pole regulation are increasingly urgent, and it is urgent to promote the co-construction and sharing of new poles and strengthen the maintenance and combing of stock poles.

In the face of the new situation and new requirements, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, on the basis of previous work, jointly deployed and promoted a new round of telecommunications infrastructure co-construction and sharing work with relevant departments, strengthened overall planning from the policy level, expanded the scope of cross-industry co-construction and sharing, optimized the layout of infrastructure, focused on improving the level of telecommunications infrastructure co-construction and sharing, and promoted the high-quality development of "double gigabit" network.

2. In what aspects is the significance of co-construction and sharing of telecommunications infrastructure reflected?

The joint construction and sharing of telecommunications infrastructure is an effective practice to improve people's well-being. Promoting the joint entry of the "double gigabit" network can further improve the network coverage level and service capacity of key areas and key places, protect the rights of users in residential areas, residential buildings, commercial buildings and other buildings to choose broadband network services on an equal basis, and consolidate the network foundation for people's happy life. Strengthening the improvement of rural poles and lines can promote the significant improvement of rural living environment and help build a livable, suitable and beautiful countryside.

The joint construction and sharing of telecommunications infrastructure is an important measure for the complete, accurate and comprehensive implementation of the new development concept. The joint construction and sharing of telecommunications infrastructure is based on the new development stage, fully, accurately and comprehensively implement the new development concepts of innovation, coordination, green, open and sharing, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, implement the comprehensive conservation strategy, actively build a green and low-carbon construction environment, and follow the principle of "intensive use of existing resources, can share and not build new". Efforts will be made to promote the intensive and efficient construction of the "double gigabit" network.

The joint construction and sharing of telecommunications infrastructure is the basic support for accelerating the construction of a cyber power and a digital China. Telecommunications infrastructure belongs to strategic, basic and pioneering public infrastructure. Deepening the co-construction and sharing of telecommunications infrastructure, promoting the high-quality development of "double gigabit" networks represented by 5G and gigabit optical networks, can more efficiently play their basic support and integration enabling role, consolidate the base for the system deployment of digital infrastructure, lay a solid foundation for accelerating the process of industrial digitalization, and provide basic support for accelerating the construction of a network power and a digital China.

3. What are the main objectives set forth in the "Implementation Opinions"?

The "Implementation Opinions" clearly put forward that by the end of 2025, the working mechanism for co-construction and sharing of telecommunications infrastructure will be continuously improved, the level of co-construction and sharing will be significantly improved, the "double gigabit" network construction environment will be further optimized, and social resources will be effectively saved. First, all localities should establish a list of key places such as schools, hospitals, public sports venues, public cultural venues, and public transportation hubs to promote the joint entry of 5G networks; Establish a list of residential areas, residential buildings and commercial buildings with no or only one basic telecom operator's broadband network access, promote the joint entry of broadband networks, and significantly improve the coverage level of the "double gigabit" network. Second, a number of administrative village communication lines are completed every year, and positive progress has been made in promoting the sorting of rural lines. Third, all localities should establish a list of cross-industry infrastructure resource sharing needs, carry out coordination work against the list, and promote the sharing needs of key regions and important lines in the power, municipal, transportation, communications and other industries to be effectively guaranteed, so as to achieve cross-industry co-construction and sharing deepening and expanding. The fourth is to carry out the construction or upgrading of the regional co-construction and sharing platform system in accordance with the standards, strengthen the data analysis and application of the platform, and effectively improve the digital guarantee level of co-construction and sharing.

4. In what aspects are the innovation points and highlights of the "Implementation Opinions" reflected?

First, we need to make overall planning and coordination to expand the scope of joint contribution and shared benefits. In the early stage, the joint construction and sharing of the information and communication industry has achieved remarkable results. This time, the implementation Opinions are jointly issued and implemented by 14 departments, further expand the scope of co-construction and sharing, promote cross-industry open sharing and integrated deployment of infrastructure, will effectively save construction costs, promote power, municipal, transportation and other fields of facility resources actively open and share to the "double gigabit" network construction, and provide important support for the high-quality development of the "double gigabit" network. It has also injected strong impetus into industry change and digital transformation.

Second, we will adhere to precise policies and highlight the deployment of key links. The "Implementation Opinions" grasp the new characteristics of the construction and sharing of telecommunications infrastructure, precise policies, targeted efforts, focusing on various regions and enterprises to reflect more concentrated problems, put forward targeted work measures, and detailed work requirements. Four column projects, including the "double Gigabit" network joint attack project, the rural pole and line co-governance project, the cross-industry sharing demonstration project and the digital guarantee enhancement project, have provided an important starting point for effectively promoting the implementation of the "Implementation Opinions".

Third, we will continue to improve systems to ensure effective implementation. The "Implementation Opinions" specify that all localities should establish cross-industry co-construction and sharing coordination mechanisms and expert consultation mechanisms, formulate work plans, clarify responsibility requirements, and promote the implementation of work; Strengthen assessment management, refine assessment requirements, promote strict implementation, timely detect violations and deal with; Strengthen the management of co-construction and sharing process, strengthen the overall planning of the construction needs of the site, the computer room, and the indoor distribution system, and clarify the work steps such as demand proposal, demand matching, and information sharing to support the orderly development of the work.

5. What key tasks are deployed in the "Implementation Opinions"?

The "Implementation Opinions" aim to continuously improve the level of co-construction and sharing, promote the high-quality development of the "double gigabit" network, focus on overall intensive construction, ensure fair access, and promote cross-industry sharing, focus on six key directions, and promote co-construction and sharing to deepen development. First, promote the coordinated and intensive construction of the "double gigabit" network. In drawing up the national space plan, we will make overall spatial arrangements for the construction of telecommunications and other infrastructure. Strengthen the overall planning of the indoor distribution system construction needs of 5G base station sites and computer rooms, buildings and public transportation key places, make full use of stock resources, share no new construction, strictly build and share the process, and minimize duplicate construction. Second, deepen the "double gigabit" network to enter together. We will strictly implement standards for building communications facilities. Promote unified coordination, unified approach, and overall construction of 5G networks in key scenarios. Promote the equal opening of communication supporting facilities in residential areas, residential buildings and commercial buildings to basic telecommunications operators, accelerate the equal access to broadband networks of multiple basic telecommunications operators, and deepen the coverage of gigabit optical networks. The third is to strengthen the rural communication pole line maintenance and combing. Encourage basic telecom operators to promote the co-construction and sharing of rural pole lines and cables through the same trench cable distribution, the same pole cable distribution, the same cable core distribution, fiber core replacement, and leased fiber core, and encourage the owner to coordinate unified compensation and pipeline and pole road rental, and intensive construction. Promote basic telecom operators to strengthen the maintenance and sorting of rural stock lines. Fourth, we will encourage cross-industry openness and sharing. Encourage the power, municipal, transportation and other fields of towers, pipelines, pipe corridors, tunnels, optical cables, computer rooms and other resources in a reasonable and fair market-oriented way to actively open and share the "double gigabit" network construction, and give play to the role of communication networks to empower various industries. Encourage the development of smart towers, and support the construction and application of 5G base stations, mobile Internet of things and other facilities with smart towers as the carrier. Fifth, we will strengthen digital technology support. We will study and formulate standards for a big data platform for telecommunications infrastructure construction and sharing, and clarify requirements for the basic functions, overall architecture, interface standards, data formats, and security protection of the platform. Encourage all localities to promote the construction or upgrading of platforms in their own regions, strengthen the integration of platform systems and facility resource information, strengthen data analysis and application, and strive to improve the level of digital guarantee for co-construction and sharing. Sixth, optimize the "double gigabit" network construction environment. Overall consideration of facilities planning, policy guarantees, financial support, assessment guidance and other comprehensive situations, focusing on various policy environments and other factors affecting the construction of the "double gigabit" network, exploring the formulation of evaluation standards and norms and evaluation indicators, and forming an evaluation system. Local organizations carried out the "double gigabit" network construction environment assessment, strengthened the publicity of the assessment results, and promoted the further optimization of the construction environment.

Sixth, the "Implementation Opinions" in order to significantly improve the "double gigabit" network coverage level, what support measures proposed?

The "Implementation Opinions" put forward the "double gigabit" network to jointly attack the key project, and effectively improve the coverage level of the "double gigabit" network from the two aspects of promoting the common entry of 5G networks and ensuring equal access to gigabit optical networks through the construction list, clear responsibilities, and strong supervision.

One is to create a list. Establish a list of key places such as urban core areas, important functional areas, scenic spots, parks, large residential areas, commercial buildings, and public transportation, as well as a list of residential areas, residential buildings, and commercial buildings, and update it annually, and promote the joint entry of 5G and broadband networks against the list, and significantly improve the coverage level of the "double gigabit" network.

Second, clarify responsibilities. Local communication administrations will work with relevant departments to sort out and establish a list of work, education, health, civil affairs, culture and tourism, sports, housing urban and rural construction, transportation and other departments to actively coordinate and promote opening up against the list, tower companies, basic telecommunications operators to deepen cooperation, unified coordination, overall planning and construction.

Third, we will strengthen oversight. Local communication administrations, together with housing and urban and rural construction departments, strengthen supervision and management in accordance with their duties, study the establishment of broadband network coverage maps, disclose the broadband network access of buildings in the list, and carry out 5G network quality evaluation in some places in the list of key places every year and publish them publicly.

In order to improve the rural living environment and build a livable and viable countryside, what are the work arrangements?

The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that it is necessary to coordinate the layout of rural infrastructure and public services, and build a livable and viable countryside. A new journey in the new era, the full implementation of rural revitalization, and the construction of a livable, viable and beautiful countryside is a major and urgent strategic task in the stage of high-quality development. Strengthening the maintenance and combing of communication pole lines is an important starting point for the improvement of rural living environment and the construction of livable and viable countryside.

The "Implementation Opinions" pointed out that the development of rural pole and line co-governance and common maintenance project, the establishment and improvement of rural telecommunications infrastructure co-construction and sharing of common maintenance mechanism, through fragmentation, jointly entrusted construction maintenance units and other ways, timely mapping and rectification of illegal hanging pole routes, eliminate security risks, create a number of rural pole and line standard construction benchmarks, forming a demonstration effect, To play a positive role in improving the rural living environment.

8. What are the work considerations of the "Implementation Opinions" in order to promote the open sharing of cross-industry infrastructure?

To deepen the co-construction and sharing of telecommunications infrastructure, it is necessary to achieve coordinated development both within and among industries. While deepening co-construction and sharing in the industry, various localities and enterprises are also promoting cross-industry infrastructure sharing in the fields of power, municipal administration, transportation, etc., but the problems such as inconsistent planning and overall planning, asynchronous design and construction, opaque stock resources, and inconsistent norms and standards have increased the difficulty of cross-industry sharing.

In order to further strengthen cross-industry coordination and expand the scope of cross-industry sharing, the "Implementation Opinions" put forward: First, build a mechanism. Local communication administrations will establish cross-industry co-construction and sharing coordination mechanisms with housing and urban and rural construction, transportation, culture and tourism departments, formulate work plans, strengthen organizational deployment, refine the division of responsibilities, and promote the implementation of work. Second, promote opening-up. By planning cross-industry sharing demonstration projects, sorting out and establishing cross-industry infrastructure resource sharing demand lists, strengthening inter-departmental coordination and communication, and promoting the open sharing and integrated deployment of resources such as towers, pipelines, pipe corridors, tunnels, optical cables, and computer rooms. Third, strong empowerment. Give full play to the role of communication networks in empowering various industries, and promote the construction and development of intelligent power grid infrastructure, digital urban infrastructure, vehicle-road coordination, and "5G high-speed rail".

9. What specific measures are proposed in the "Implementation Opinions" to effectively improve the level of digital security for co-construction and sharing?

At present, the global digital transformation is accelerating, the co-construction and sharing of telecommunications infrastructure is deepening, the demand for cross-industry resource sharing is increasing, and the scale of facility resource data is accelerating. How to creatively use data resources, effectively release the value of data elements, and significantly improve the level of digital intelligence has become a major challenge to deepen the work of co-construction and sharing.

According to the "Implementation Opinions", to carry out the digital security improvement project, all localities in accordance with unified standards, fully tap existing resources, innovate construction modes, actively build or improve the telecom infrastructure co-construction and sharing big data platform system, promote the timely entry of all kinds of telecom infrastructure resource information into the platform resource database, and implement the co-construction and sharing process through the platform. To achieve controllable processes, verifiable information, and verifiable resources, strive to improve the level of digital security for co-construction and sharing, and use data development and utilization as the starting point to activate the value of the elements, and promote the release of more "digital dividends".

10. How to ensure the Implementation of the "Implementation Opinions"?

The "Implementation Opinions" stressed that it is necessary to strengthen work security and promote the implementation of various tasks. First, strengthen work coordination. All localities have established cross-industry coordination mechanisms for co-construction and sharing, formulated work plans, strengthened organizational deployment, detailed the division of responsibilities, promoted the implementation of work, regularly carried out coordination, communication, supervision and other work, and reported work progress, existing difficulties and problems to local party committees and governments on an annual basis. Second, establish a consultation mechanism. Local experts have organized the establishment of a co-construction and sharing consultation mechanism to carry out professional analysis of the disputed co-construction and sharing conditions, relevant technical solutions or specific problems encountered in the implementation, put forward consulting opinions, and detailed dispute coordination solutions to support the orderly development of the work. Third, we will improve policy support. Local departments of natural resources, housing, urban and rural construction, and energy continue to optimize and simplify the approval procedures for planning, construction, land, and electricity involved in the "double gigabit" network infrastructure, and shorten the approval cycle. Encourage local government agencies and institutions to open their facilities and resources free of charge to the construction of the "double gigabit" network. Fourth, we will promote experience. Localities are actively exploring new areas, new technologies, and new models for the joint construction and sharing of telecommunications infrastructure, and strengthening the mining and cultivation of typical cases. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, together with relevant departments, organizes and carries out the collection of typical cases every year, and strengthens publicity and promotion. Fifth, timely submission of data. Local communication administrations, basic telecom operation enterprise group companies and China Tower Co., Ltd. regularly sort out and summarize the progress of co-construction and sharing work, and give timely feedback. Sixth, strict oversight and assessment. All localities strengthened work coordination, strengthened process management, and found violations in the field of co-construction and sharing by organizing unannounced visits and spot checks. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, together with the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, shall urge and guide the basic telecom operation enterprise Group Company and China Tower Co., Ltd. to implement the assessment requirements for the co-construction and sharing of telecommunications infrastructure.