On May 10, the 4th "5G and Future Network Strategy Seminar" sponsored by the Committee for Promoting the Technical Standards and Industrial Development of Future Mobile Communications and organized by Guangdong communications & networks institute was held in the banquet hall on the first floor of Guangzhou Nikko Hotel.

The year of 2019 is considered the first year of 5G commercial use. The technology of 5G is gradually growing mature, and its commercial use has been also unveiled slowly. 5G characteristic of broad bandwidth, ultra-low time delay and massive connection will change human society and bring about unlimited opportunities. 201 mobile operators in 83 countries across the world are actively taking action. Meanwhile, three domestic operators are also making the corresponding deployment actively, and pilot tests, network construction and application demonstration projects of 5G in various regions are being sped up.

5G is the focus of current industrial and social attention, and its influence has far exceeded the technical scope. Industry-wide recognition is increasingly made clear that 5G is not only the upgrading of wireless air interface technology, but also a major change of the network technology. 5G not only accelerates the transformation and reconstruction of the network, but also ushers in the transformation and development of the infrastructure, the network organization mode and even the whole communications industry.

For the future mobile information service, the future network innovation will become the key to the development of 5G. cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence will drive 5G technology to develop in depth and foster major technological changes such as new frequency spectrum, new technologies, new systems, new protocols and new devices. The transformation from "personal communications" to "industrial application" also puts forward new requirements for network development. The changes in some systems and frameworks, such as software popularization for network equipment, cloudification and virtualization reconstruction of network infrastructure, as well as agile, customized and intelligent transformation of network systems used in the industry, will become important core concepts of 5G.

It is in this context that the seminar was held. It focuses on the theme of "5G Network Change and 5G Opportunity", with emphasis on 5G implementation and pre-commercial use promotion, industry opportunities brought by 5G, and network changes for future mobile information services.

It is known that the organizer of this conference, Guangdong Communications & Networks Institute, is a high-end research and development platform focused on the construction of network communication in Guangdong Province. It aims to gather all kinds of innovative resources in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and high-end talents from home and abroad to carry out basic, frontier, and application-oriented technology research for international frontier areas and solving bottlenecks in the Chinese network communication industry. Meanwhile, it aims to promote the transfer, transformation, and demonstration application of scientific research results. With the mission to make key technology breakthroughs and achievement transfer in the field of communications and networks, the institute strives to enhance its independence and innovation capability in developing the new-generation communications and network technologies in Guangdong Province and China, so as to improve the domestic guarantee capability in independently securing an autonomous, manageable, safe and controllable communications and network industry chain. The Institute successfully organized two national academic activities of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China and the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2018.

As the venue for the event, Guangdong Province is a key region for 5G scale networking. It is the only province in China with two cities participating in the 5G trials led by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China and the National Development and Reform Commission, as well as the only province participating in technology trials, scaled trials, and application demonstrations simultaneously. In terms of 5G applications, Guangdong has also unfolded a lot of explorations, including 5G video applications, 5G guarantee for Spring Festival travel season, 5G smart grid pilot application, 5G smart highway, 5G smart port, and 5G hospital with demonstration application. Recently, the world's first 5G mobile phone outfield call based on the latest 3GPP protocol was also made in the 5G scale test outfield in Shenzhen, which is of significance to the commercial use of 5G.

It is reported that Guangdong Province is currently implementing the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area strategy, of which the new pillar industry is the new-generation information technology represented by 5G. Guangdong Communications & Networks Institute, as the organizer of this activity, will bring together upstream and downstream enterprises and research institutes to comprehensively promote the key technology and facility construction related to the digital transformation of various industries in this economic society by utilizing technologies such as big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things. It will be a core enabler for building up the smart city clusters in the Greater Bay Area by developing automatic driving, smart network-based transportation, smart cities, industrial Internet and the Internet of Things, etc.

The opening ceremony was hosted by Zhang Xinsheng, Vice President of the Future Mobile Communication Technology Standards and Industry Development Promotion Committee; there are a lot of people participating in the ceremony, including Zhou Mutang, Deputy Inspector of Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province, Zhang Zhitong, Deputy Researcher; Dai Xiaohui, Vice President of CCSA, Xu Peng, Director of High Technology Division of the Science and Technology Department in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Zhang Hongwei, Deputy Director of Guangzhou Municipal Industry and Information Technology Bureau, Chen Mengchang, Deputy General Manager of Guangdong Unicom; Zhu Fusheng, President of Guangdong Communications & Networks Institute, and senior experts from enterprises and research institutions like Guangdong Mobile, Guangdong Telecom, Guangdong Unicom, Academy of Broadcasting Science,National Radio and Television Administration, Qualcomm, Huawei, ZTE, Nokia Bell, CICT, Ericsson, Baidu, Foxconn, MIGU, Gosuncn.

The conference was hosted by Zhang Xinsheng, Vice President of the Future Mobile Communication Technology Standards and Industry Development Promotion Committee.

Firstly, Zhou Mutang, Deputy Inspector of the Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province, and Xu Peng, Director of High Technology Division of the Science and Technology Department in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, delivered a speech respectively.

Network communication is one of the most important infrastructures in the information society. The development of communication technology from 4G to 5G will not only create huge economic value, but also drive and stimulate the development of various industries, said Zhou Mutang, Deputy Inspector of the Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province. Guangdong has a solid foundation in the communications industry and a superior policy environment for scientific and technological innovation. It is hoped that Guangdong can contribute to the development of 5G communications in China and drive the domestic industry to become a global pioneer.

Xu Peng, Xu Peng, Director of High Technology Division of the Science and Technology Department in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China, made two suggestions, firstly, to continue to deepen cooperation and create a better industrial ecological chain. The government, as well as the relevant levels of enterprises, are required to better implement the relevant plans for 5G, speed up the 5G standardization work both at home and abroad, and introduce the relevant frequency settings. Secondly, it is hoped to continue to promote technological innovation and development. He pointed out that the integration of 5G, artificial intelligence, and other new-generation information technologies with the real economy should be strengthened so that the real economy and the traditional economy can be upgraded and better economic development can be promoted through vigorous cultivation of new products, new operation types and new modes.

On the theme of "5G Pre-commercialization", Cai Weiwen, General Manager of Planning and Technology Department of China Mobile Group Guangdong Company Limited, gave a presentation surrounding Start the Era of 5G with China Mobile and Lead the Greater Bay Area - 5G+ Action Plan of China Mobile Group Guangdong Company Limited.

Cai Weiwen, General Manager of Planning and Technology Department of China Mobile Group Guangdong Company Limited, gave a presentation on the topic of Start the Era of 5G with China Mobile and Lead the Greater Bay Area - 5G+ Action Plan of China Mobile Group Guangdong Company Limited. He said that China Mobile had recently proposed the 5G+ plan, which mainly includes three aspects of 5G+4G, 5G+AICDE and 5G+Ecolopy. He said the company would concentrate RMB 200 million in 2019 on big data research and development in industries such as transportation, tourism, and meteorology. A further breakthrough in 5G application services would be made through the internet, thus mobilizing the entire industry ecology.

Li Min, General Manager of Network Development Department of Guangdong Telecom, pointed out the challenges we may face in 5G pre-commercialization, such as "Unclear 5G Commercial Model", "Differentiated Industry Demand Due to the Changing 5G Framework", "Difference Between High-frequency Coverage and 4G Wireless Coverage", and "5G Terminal Network Industrial Practice".

Zhu Qiang, General Manager of Technology Department of China Unicom Group Co Ltd, Guangdong Branch, made a report on 5Gn Lets the Future Grow. Guangdong Branch of China Unicom Group Co., Ltd. has done a lot of work in developing the greater application scenarios and value of 5G in this field, such as the 24-hour unmanned application experiment, which makes the factory control line into wireless through the adoption of 5G technology and realizes the effective scheduling of power resources through 5G; as for quality inspection, it can be finer and faster through AR glasses.

Zhang Yu, Senior Engineer of TV Technology Research Institute, Academy of Broadcast Science, NRTA, also shared his views on 5G and Mobile Radio and Television.

In the session of "5G Network Transformation", Hou Mingjuan, Global Vice President of Qualcomm, shared her thoughts on Future-oriented 5G Development; Zhou Yu, Head of Wireless MBB Research Department of Huawei, shared his thoughts on NG Minimal Private Network Enables Intelligent Manufacturing. Duan Xiangyang, Vice President of ZTE, shared his thoughts on Integration of Minimal and Intelligent Operation for Building an Efficient 5G Network. Zhang Qing, Executive Vice President of Nokia Bell shared his thoughts on Future Network Enables Digital Transformation in Industry. He Ke, the Senior Technical Expert of CICT Wireless Communication, shared his thoughts on Subdividing Business Scenarios to Help MEC Implementation. MagnusEwerbring, CTO of Ericsson in the Asia Pacific Region, shared thoughts on Introducing 5G. Liu Ning, Director of System Department of Baidu, gave a sharing titled 5GXAI Opens A New Era of Industrial Internet.

It is clear from the presentations that the commercial pace of 5G is accelerating, with more than 20 operators already announcing plans to offer 5G network deployments and more than 20 manufacturers offering handsets and terminals in the first year of 5G commercialization.

In the afternoon, the session of 5G Empowerment and New Opportunities for the Industry was hosted by Dai Xiaohui, Vice President of CCSA, in which several experts were invited to share their views on different topics, including 5G Empowering Industrial Internet by Luo Wei, Director of Foxconn Technology Group Shenzhen 5G Research Institute, Development of Ultra HD TV and 5G Applications by Zhou Yun, from TV Technology Research Institute, Academy of Broadcast Science, NRTA, The Practice of "5G+4K+AI" in the fields of Sports and Performing Arts by Li Lin, VP of Technical Management of MIGU, Exploring the Application of 5G in the Emergency Communication Industry by Zhang Jun, Deputy General Manager of ZTE New Start.
Dai Xiaohui, Vice President of CCSA, hosted the conference.

The activity concluded with a panel discussion on the future of 5G, which is hosted by Zhu Fusheng, President of Guangdong Provincial New Generation Communication and Network Innovation Research Institute Zhu Fusheng, President of Guangdong Provincial New Generation Communication and Network Innovation Research Institute, Xiao Yue, Researcher of University of Electronic Science and Technology, and Pan Chengkang, Senior Engineer of China Mobile Research Institute shared their views on Reflection on 6G, Outlook on Post-5G Mobile Communication Technology and Portraying 6G from Multiple Perspectives respectively.

It is reported that the "5G and Future Network Strategy Seminar" is an annual seminar in the field of mobile communication to discuss technical and industry strategy, which has been held since 2016. This conference has always focused on the strategic development of mobile communications, and network transformation for the 5G era has been the core theme of the conference.