6G landing, standards must come first "- Experts discuss the optimal solution for the development of 6G technology industry
2025-04-21
China CITIC Mobile, China Mobile, and Peking University jointly released a prototype of a 6G holographic metasurface broadband mobile communication system, providing a new path for future 6G high-speed transmission; The visualized 6G satellite access network system level simulation platform jointly developed by China Telecom and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications can conduct preliminary simulation verification of the current super large low orbit satellite constellation; The low altitude flight service platform built by Nanjing Transportation Group supports the full process management of low altitude flight through integrated sensing technology... With the collaborative efforts of the industry chain, the 6G landscape is becoming increasingly clear. During the 2025 Global 6G Technology and Industry Ecology Conference held from April 10th to 12th, Wang Xiaoyun, Chief Scientist of China Mobile Group, said that the development of 6G needs to gather industry consensus, resolve technical route differences, ultimately achieve commercial closed loop, and promote the paradigm shift of mobile communication towards "mobile information network". AI provides new opportunities for 6G. "6G is a fundamental enabling technology that can empower the intelligent transformation of the entire society, with capabilities that are one or even two orders of magnitude higher than existing 5G You Xiaohu, an academician of the CAS Member, director of Zijinshan Laboratory, and professor of Southeast University, said that 6G can achieve synaesthesia integration, communication and intelligence integration, and ubiquitous integration, and is expected to be gradually put into commercial use around 2030, once again changing the way people live and work, and supporting new changes. 6G is facing a new opportunity, which is AI. AI can provide new momentum for 6G Wu Hequan, academician of the CAE Member, said. 6G can combine AI and communication Zhang Ping, an academician of the CAE Member and professor of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, believes that traditional communication systems face three bottlenecks: theoretical, intelligent and flexible. To overcome these bottlenecks, the integration of communication and AI is an inevitable trend. Among them, modern semantic communication can integrate communication technology with intelligent technology. At present, this technology has been validated for its excellent performance in high-definition video transmission, vehicle networking, unmanned aerial vehicle networks, large-scale Internet of Things and other scenarios, and has received widespread attention internationally. Smart devices are smarter and easier to use, from people to objects and then to intelligent agents. The connectivity of mobile communication networks is more extensive and "seamless". Although the speed of 5G networks has improved significantly, the actual experience of users has not improved synchronously. This indicates that relying solely on speed increase is no longer enough to meet users' expectations for mobile communication technology, "said Wu Hequan." With the rapid development of AI, new terminal devices such as AI glasses continue to emerge, which also puts higher demands on the speed, performance, and flexibility of networks. Therefore, looking forward to the 6G era, there are still many uncertainties in the field of consumer applications. "" The leap of each generation of communication technology cannot be separated from the evolution of terminal forms. "Wu Jianjun, Deputy Secretary General of the Future Mobile Communication Forum, said that one of the significant changes in 6G is the emergence of intelligent terminals: robots, smart cars, drones, etc. are no longer just intelligent terminals. Simple information receivers, but active participants with intelligent perception, real-time decision-making, and collaborative capabilities. Bi Qi, Chief Scientist of China Telecom, believes that whether AI applications can be widely implemented in the future is the key to whether 6G can truly surpass 5G. The breakthrough of AI in terminal devices can make smart devices smarter and easier to use. If these new terminals can develop rapidly, it will greatly promote the popularization and application of 6G. Wu Hequan predicts that after the official commercial use of 6G, mobile phones may evolve into powerful AI terminals, which can not only understand user needs more "intelligently", but also greatly improve the automatic generation ability of content. This change may trigger a new wave of information consumption, similar to the release of the iPhone in 2007. He believes that 6G should first meet the basic performance upgrades of mobile phones and other devices, as well as the core requirements of industrial digitization. It should achieve commercial closed loop through large-scale applications, and then gradually expand into more professional fields such as drones and satellite communication. In the opinion of Yin Hao, an academician of the CAS Member, in the future, 6G will build a new mobile information network integrated by ground networks, satellites at different orbital heights, and different airspace aircraft, and together with ground mobile information networks, it will achieve seamless coverage of the earth's surface normalization. The breakthrough of integrated sensing technology can unleash unlimited possibilities for low altitude economy. It is necessary to strengthen cross industry integration. According to the timetable proposed by the international standard organization 3GPP, which is responsible for formulating communication standards since 3G, the industry will officially launch research on 6G standards in June this year. The implementation of 6G requires standards to come first Wen Ku, Chairman of the China Communications Standardization Association, said that standards are the bridge from innovation to products, and "the bridge must be passed." Wu Hequan reminded that in the process of mobile communication development, 4G to 5G has moved towards global standardization, reducing the cost of the industry chain. The industrialization of 6G faces a complex international situation and the risk of inconsistent standards. The industry should strengthen communication, gather consensus as much as possible, and promote standardization. In terms of standard setting, China has already made some arrangements. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently issued the "2025 Industrial and Information Technology Standards Work Points", which clearly requires strengthening the construction of standards for emerging industries, and proposes to accelerate the construction of a new information infrastructure standard system, promote research on standards such as 5G-A, low altitude information infrastructure, 6G, quantum secure communication, etc. In this process, technical consensus is particularly important. You Xiaohu frankly stated that the process of standardization is the process of reaching consensus on technology, and there are still many research directions in the 6G field that have not truly reached broad consensus. Wen Ku also believes that we cannot blindly build 6G networks, but should first reach a consensus on the concept and cognition, clarify the service targets and market demands of 6G networks, to ensure that 6G technology can be effectively applied and create practical value for social and economic development. The development of 6G is not only a technical issue, but also a matter of cross industry integration Yi Zhiling, Chief Scientist of China Mobile Research Institute, believes that efforts should be made to bring in people from all walks of life and work together to discover cases that can be replicated on a large scale. Wu Jianjun frankly stated that although the "industry wide collaboration" of 6G ecosystem construction has been frequently mentioned in recent years, in reality, the information and communication technology circle is still dominant, and the substantive participation of vertical industries is still insufficient. Especially in the current era where AI is accelerating its penetration into various industries, this shortcoming is becoming increasingly apparent. To truly involve industries such as robotics, automobiles, and drones in standard setting, and even serve as leaders of standard organizations, rather than just proposing a few requirements, "said Wu Jianjun. (New Society)
Edit:He Chuanning Responsible editor:Su Suiyue
Source:Sci-Tech Daily
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