Jin Zhuanglong, Minister of Industry and Information Technology: Enrich and expand 5G application scenarios and promote 6G research and development

Today, the 31st China International Information and Communication Exhibition, hosted by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, opened in Beijing. With the theme of "Opening up the information arteries and creating a new digital era", the exhibition showcases the latest achievements in the development of the information and communication industry.

Jin Zhuanglong, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, attended the opening forum and delivered a speech. Zhang Yunming, member of the Party Leadership Group and Vice Minister of the Ministry, presided over the opening forum. Zhao Zhiguo, Chief Engineer of the Ministry, and Gao Dongsheng, Chief Economist and Director of the General Office, attended the event.

Jin Zhuanglong said that the information and communication industry is a strategic, basic and leading industry of the national economy, and plays an important supporting role in promoting economic and social development. Since the 18th CPC National Congress, my country's information and communication industry has achieved leapfrog development in recent years. The new forms of industrial Internet integration and application and the rapid development of the information and communication industry have effectively driven the digitalization, networking and intelligent transformation and upgrading of the real economy, and promoted the high-quality development of the economy and society.

Jin Zhuanglong stressed that the 20th CPC National Congress has drawn up a grand blueprint for building a modern socialist country in an all-round way and promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization, and has made strategic arrangements for promoting new industrialization and accelerating the construction of a manufacturing power, a network power, and a digital China. We should optimize the layout of infrastructure, accelerate the systematic development of new information infrastructure, enhance the depth and breadth of 5G and gigabit optical network coverage, deepen the universal telecommunications services, accelerate the development of computing infrastructure, and consolidate the new foundation for the development of the digital economy. We should accelerate the empowerment of information technology, further enrich and expand 5G application scenarios, deepen the integrated application of the industrial Internet, vigorously promote the intelligentization, greening, and integration of the manufacturing industry, and build a new engine for high-quality development. We should accelerate the cultivation of emerging industries, continuously enhance the advantages of the entire industrial chain in fields such as mobile communications and optical communications, proactively deploy cutting-edge fields such as the next generation of the Internet, comprehensively promote the research and development of 6G technology, and seize new advantages for future development. We should deepen global open cooperation, work together to create an open, fair, just, and non-discriminatory development environment, promote the construction of a community with a shared future in cyberspace, and create a new ecology of mutual benefit and win-win.

After the opening forum, Zhang Yunming attended the main forum of the 31st China International Information and Communication Exhibition and ICT China High-level Forum held at the same time and delivered a keynote speech.