On September 24, 2025, the 2025 China International Information and Communication Expo opened in Beijing. Z Zhihong, Chief Engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. In recent years, China's information and communication has continuously consolidated and enhanced its competitive advantages, and its strategic, foundational, and leading role in economic and social development has become increasingly prominent. At present, China has built world's largest and technologically leading information and communication network, with the rapid growth of 5G and gigabit networks, the steady advancement of terabit optical network pilot projects the in-depth construction of a national integrated computing power system, and the launch of computing power Internet; the proportion of online processing of telecommunications services has reached 91% the number of 5G mobile phone users has exceeded 1.1 billion, nearly 190,000 telecommunications and Internet operating entities, including more than2,700 foreign-invested telecommunications enterprises; 5G applications cover 86 major categories of the national economy, the "5G Industrial Internet" has accumulated more than 18,500 projects, and new industries, new formats, and new models of "artificial intelligence " are accelerating their implementation, with added value of the "three new" economy exceeding 24 trillion yuan.
Reporters learned from the opening ceremony that in the next step, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will focus on the key task of realizing newization, and promote the information and communication industry to focus on building a solid digital infrastructure, promoting independent innovation in science and technology, deepening integrated application empowerment, and optimizing the development of the industry, so as to speed up the pace of modernization and make greater contributions to the comprehensive construction of a socialist modernized powerful country. Among them, in terms promoting independent innovation in science and technology, efforts will be made to increase the intensity of technological innovation and research and development, to accelerate the enrichment of the 5G-A product, and to promote the deployment of high-quality networks; the research and development of 6G technology will be accelerated, and the layout and cultivation of application industry ecology for G will be carried out; aiming at the commanding heights of future science and technology and industrial development, efforts will be made to accelerate the innovation of new generation information technology, artificial intelligence quantum information, block chain and other fields, and to cultivate and develop emerging industries and future industries.
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