The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission released seven 5G innovation and application promotion projects

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Recently, in order to accelerate the implementation of the "Broadband China" strategy and focus on promoting the construction of new infrastructure, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly issued a notice on organizing the implementation of the 2020 new infrastructure construction project (broadband network and 5G fields). In the notice, a total of seven 5G innovative applications were promoted to construction projects.

• Construction of 5G smart medical system for major public health emergencies
• Construction of 5G virtual enterprise private network for Internet + collaborative manufacturing
• Large-scale application of new 5G technologies for smart grids
• Large-scale verification and application of 5G-based vehicle-road cooperative vehicle network
• 5G+Smart Education Application Demonstration
• Construction of 5G smart port application system
• 5G+4K/8K ultra-high-definition production and broadcasting system infrastructure construction

The specific content of the notice is as follows:

1. Construction of 5G smart medical system for major public health emergencies

Carry out research and development of smart medical technology based on the new 5G network architecture, build a 5G smart medical demonstration network, establish an evaluation and verification environment, promote the industrialization of key network equipment and prototype systems that meet the needs of smart medical collaboration, and accelerate the application and promotion of 5G in epidemic warning, pre-hospital emergency treatment, remote real-time consultation, remote surgery, wireless monitoring, mobile rounds and other aspects, effectively protect the health of medical staff, and provide important support for responding to major public health emergencies.

Index requirements:

(1) Build a 5G smart medical demonstration network including an internal hospital network, a telemedicine network, and an emergency treatment network. The number of 5G base stations shall be no less than 30. The telemedicine network shall cover no less than 20 medical institutions at the five levels of province, city, county, township, and village. No less than 10 medical emergency vehicles shall be transformed into information technology.

(2) Build a smart medical platform system that supports no less than 10 diagnostic scenarios and surgical types, and serves no less than 80 hospitals and corporate users.

(3) It should be capable of in-vehicle mobile multi-party consultation, with a concurrent consultation volume of no less than 100 groups, and support intelligent medical image-assisted diagnosis.

(4) Carry out at least eight demonstration applications, including mobile ward rounds, mobile nursing, multidisciplinary collaborative consultation, and remote pathology diagnosis; and carry out at least three emergency applications, including remote virtual reality (VR) emergency rescue, on-site emergency rescue by ambulance, and remote emergency rescue by drone.

(5) Support the formulation and revision of relevant industry standards, build a 5G smart medical evaluation and verification environment, and carry out evaluation and verification of 5G smart medical and health products and systems.

(6) Satisfy the regulatory requirements of the industry’s information sharing system.

2. Construction of 5G virtual enterprise private network for "Internet +" collaborative manufacturing

Build 5G networks to serve enterprises or parks, establish an industrial collaborative manufacturing platform based on 5G networks, promote the integration of 5G technology with industrial networks, industrial software, and control systems, accelerate the promotion and application of industrial collaborative manufacturing platforms and solutions, and promote the digitalization, networking, and intelligent transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry.

Index requirements:

(1) Within an enterprise or park, no fewer than 10 5G base stations and no fewer than 2 edge computing (MEC) platforms shall be deployed to serve the virtual enterprise private network.

(2) Deploy 5G terminal modules on 20 types of industrial terminals or equipment, with the terminal deployment scale reaching more than 1,000 units.

(3) Make full use of existing platform resources, or build a collaborative manufacturing operating system cloud platform to achieve interconnection with mainstream industrial platforms, realize 5G network and terminal capability call and monitoring, and have the access management capability of more than one million terminals.

(4) Realize industrial applications in more than 30 specific scenarios and support the formulation and revision of relevant industry standards.

3. Large-scale application of new 5G technologies for smart grids

Based on the new 5G network architecture and smart grid scenarios, we will develop 5G end-to-end network slicing and resource scheduling systems to meet network requirements such as smart grid business management area isolation and business isolation. We will develop key network equipment and prototype systems to provide an overall smart grid solution that integrates 5G technology.

Index requirements:

(1) In order to meet the network performance requirements of different smart grid businesses and satisfy the requirements of business security isolation and critical information infrastructure security protection, 5G shall carry no less than 20 power services.

(2) Develop and mass-produce no less than 200 customized power terminals with standard timing and other functions.

(3) Build an application platform that combines 5G networks with smart grid business systems, deploy no less than 50 5G base stations, no less than 2 edge computing (MEC) platforms, more than 1,000 terminals, and no less than 20 demonstration application scenarios.

(4) Support the formulation and revision of standards related to the integration of 5G and smart grid.

4. Large-scale verification and application of 5G-based vehicle-road cooperative Internet of Vehicles

Build a C-V2X large-scale demonstration network to verify the functions and interactive capabilities of the C-V2X vehicle-road collaboration platform in typical application scenarios, as well as the functions and performance of related C-V2X/5G modules and equipment, and standardize and analyze large-scale test data. Carry out industrial research and development of related modules, terminal products and platforms that meet the requirements of C-V2X large-scale test results.

Index requirements:

(1) Complete the industrial research and development of modules and equipment (on-board and roadside) supporting C-V2X technology, achieve the installation of at least 200 on-board equipment and 200 roadside equipment, and achieve on-board testing and verification of at least 10 modules.

(2) Carry out demonstration applications in one to two prefecture-level cities and deploy the C-V2X vehicle-to-road system application platform to support millions of devices or tens of millions of concurrent messages.

(3) Formulate open specifications for large-scale test and verification data of vehicle-road collaboration, build a test database, and formulate relevant standards for vehicle-road collaboration C-V2X.

5. 5G+ Smart Education Application Demonstration

Based on technologies such as 5G, VR/AR, 4K/8K ultra-high-definition video, etc., we will create excellent cases for hundreds of schools, thousands of courses and tens of thousands of people, explore the application of 5G in scenarios such as distance education, smart classrooms/classrooms, and campus safety, and focus on 5G+ high-definition remote interactive teaching, AR/VR immersive teaching, holographic classrooms, remote supervision, high-definition video security monitoring and other services.

Index requirements:

(1) Deploy no less than 100 5G base stations and no less than 2 edge computing (MEC) platforms to support network slicing.

(2) Implement at least three typical 5G smart education application demonstrations, including 5G high-definition live classroom, 5G high-definition video security monitoring, and 5G AR/VR remote classroom, and deploy no less than 500 terminals.

(3) Build an intelligent education AI brain to realize functions such as personalized learning recommendations and accurate profiling of students' physical fitness.

(4) Support the formulation and revision of relevant industry standards.

6. Construction of 5G smart port application system

Utilize 5G technology to transform the port information system and realize the intelligent transformation and upgrading of the port's horizontal transportation, vertical transportation, and ship entry and exit systems. Focus on the return of multiple video channels on site and remote control of vertical transportation port machinery, complete automatic tallying at the port, automatic driving of container trucks in closed areas of the port, etc., improve the accuracy and efficiency of port tallying, and achieve cost reduction and efficiency improvement.

Index requirements:

(1) Complete 5G network deployment in at least five domestic ports, deploy no fewer than 30 base stations, and implement no fewer than three port applications.

(2) Build a 5G-based intelligent loading and unloading system in the port area, and realize remote control transformation of no less than 30 gantry cranes and quay cranes.

(3) Carry out research and development of a 5G+AI-based intelligent tallying system for quay cranes, with no less than 20 quay cranes.

(4) Carry out research and development of a 5G-based port unmanned transport vehicle system to achieve automatic path planning and unmanned driving for no less than 15 transport vehicles in the five port horizontal operation areas.

(5) Support the formulation and revision of relevant industry standards.

7. 5G+4K/8K ultra-high-definition production and broadcasting system infrastructure construction

Build 5G+4K/8K ultra-high-definition production and broadcasting system facilities, improve the 5G ultra-high-definition service transmission network and other infrastructure systems, carry out the overall design of portable 5G+4K/8K live broadcast encoding, and promote the large-scale commercial use of 5G ultra-high-definition equipment.

Index requirements:

(1) Build a 5G+4K/8K ultra-high-definition video production and broadcasting platform to enrich 4K/8K ultra-high-definition video content.

(2) Supports source aggregation, signal scheduling, transcoding production, content broadcast control, and broadcast distribution capabilities for 4K/8K ultra-large bitrates in 5G scenarios.

(3) Support 4K/8K ultra-high-definition video H.265/HEVC, AVS2.0 and other encoding formats, support HDR mainstream technology, and support immersive audio.

(4) Realize 5G network transmission of 4K/8K video streams, optimize Internet transmission protocols such as SRT, and support the formulation and revision of relevant industry standards.

(5) Form large-scale application of 5G+4K/8K ultra-high-definition video.