Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: my country has built nearly 850,000 5G base stations

According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's micro-report, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently held a national video and telephone conference in Beijing to deploy and promote 5G security work.

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The meeting pointed out that my country's 5G network construction is accelerating, and nearly 850,000 5G base stations have been built, forming the world's largest 5G independent networking network, and the number of 5G industry application innovation cases has exceeded 10,000.

On the one hand, 5G continues the characteristics of 2/3/4G mobile communication networks, inherits the layered and domain-based security architecture of 4G networks, and has stronger security capabilities than 4G in terms of service domain security, unified authentication framework, privacy protection, and inter-network roaming security; on the other hand, since 5G introduces new technologies such as network function virtualization, network slicing, edge computing, and enhanced mobile broadband, ultra-high reliability and low latency, and massive machine-type communication typical scenarios, the network architecture is evolving towards cloud-network integration and cloud-edge collaboration, bringing new security risk challenges to network construction and operation and business applications.

The meeting required that we must deeply understand the importance of doing a good job in 5G security, effectively grasp the phased, innovative and complex characteristics of 5G development and evolution, make overall plans and collaborative innovations, and integrate security concepts and measures into all aspects of the entire process of 5G planning, construction and integrated applications to achieve synchronized 5G development and security.

In recent years, my country's 5G development has accelerated, and the progress of 5G base station construction has exceeded expectations. Data shows that in 2020, my country added about 580,000 5G base stations and built 330,000 shared 5G base stations.