CCTV News: The 2025 Government Work Report will include 6G technology in the core framework of future industrial cultivation for the first time. On March 12, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology also held a meeting and stated that it would expand the large-scale application of 5G and accelerate the 6G R&D process. What kind of communication technology is 6G? What new experience will it bring to us?
6G is the sixth generation of mobile communication technology. Simply put, 6G is a more powerful communication technology, and its goal is to provide faster speeds, lower latency, higher reliability, and support more emerging application scenarios.
Hu Xiaopeng, head of the Communications Industry Research Center of Cydie Consulting Consulting, introduced that in terms of bandwidth and speed, 6G is expected to use higher spectrum resources such as the terahertz band, thereby achieving higher bandwidth and faster transmission speeds. In terms of latency, 6G aims to achieve microsecond or even lower latency. In terms of connection density, 6G will support more devices to connect simultaneously, which will help support hyperscale connections. In the 6G era, signals can accurately locate people's status and even judge whether people fall.
In the past, the main task of communication signals was to transmit data. However, in the 6G era, signals will not only transmit data, but also perceive the surrounding environment and human body information, such as accurately positioning a person's position, capturing changes in posture, and even determining whether a person falls.
Hu Xiaopeng introduced that in the future, we will usher in the 6G revolution of smart connections, and 6G will break through the limitations of traditional communications and give the network "super-dimensional perception capabilities".
In the 6G era, the base station will support communication and perception at the same time, and can use radio waves to sense the surrounding environment, the shape and movement of objects, etc.
Ding Haiyu, deputy director of China Mobile Research Institute, introduced that in the future, such as in the scenario of remote meetings, holographic images can be provided, so that everyone can feel an immersive experience. In the robotics field, 6G can combine with artificial intelligence-related technologies to provide better services through high-speed and low-latency methods. The 6G era, the organic integration of land mobile communication and satellites to achieve seamless connection across the whole domain
In the 6G era, the organic integration of land mobile communication and high, medium and low-orbit satellites, such as deserts, oceans, and air, where ground signals are difficult to cover, the 6G network can cover all regions to achieve seamless connection across the whole domain. "AI+6G" will reshape multiple industries
From the Internet of Everything in 5G to the intelligent connection of everything in 6G, the deep integration of 6G and artificial intelligence will reshape multiple industries and bring us unprecedented opportunities and changes.
6G supports quantum-level data transmission, doctors can complete precision surgical operations through tactile gloves thousands of miles away, and the force feedback error is controlled within 0.01 Nm.
The digital twin city supported by 6G can map the operating status of all transportation and energy systems within a radius of 500 kilometers in real time, and the prediction accuracy is improved to 99.7%. The dynamic energy network supported by 6G can achieve 0.01-second power scheduling, which can make the renewable energy utilization rate exceed 92%.
Ding Haiyu said that the future society is more of an intelligent society, and the agent will be an important carrier for different applications. For example, drones, smart robots, AR, VR glasses, and even smart cars. The 6G network combines intelligent capabilities to embed intelligence into the network, so that the 6G network has the characteristics of high speed and low latency on the one hand, and also has some intelligent processing capabilities.
From the market size, the cloud network integration market driven by "AI+6G" is broad. In addition, the commercial use of 6G technology will drive the rapid development of related industrial chains, including communication equipment manufacturing, chip research and development, application development, etc., forming a trillion-level new market ecosystem. At present, global 6G technology research and development has entered the stage of key technology research and development from concept exploration. Countries are accelerating their layout around the commercial target in 2030, and my country is also accelerating the development of the 6G industry.
Ding Haiyu introduced that starting from 2025, 6G has entered the first year of standardization. In the second half of 2024, the first standardized 6G standard project was established. The standardization work of 6G in 2025 will be fully carried out to promote more in-depth research on key 6G technologies and some future related scenarios.
