China 5G

China is adding more than 10,000 5G base stations per week, with 7 million more 5G users in April and a total of more than 36 million already, said Miao Wei, China's Minister of Industry and Information Technology, today.

Huawei recently released a 5G antenna technology called CableFree, which makes a major breakthrough in key areas such as base station antenna integration, radiation efficiency and power capacity, and marks a new era for antenna development in the 5G era.

China Mobile, the country's largest telecom operator and China Broadcasting Network, which was established last year, have recently signed an agreement to jointly build 5G network.

China Broadcasting Network said today that its 5G mobile terminal will soon be released for the communications market.

The number of 5G subscribers in China has exceeded 50 million, and the number of 5G end products is 67, Hu Jianbo, chief engineer of the China Information and Communication Research Institute, said today.

Recently, there have been reports that Chinese users using 5G need to replace their SIM cards, in response, the three major telecom operators have all responded that existing 4G users do not need to replace their SIM cards.

A white paper released today by China Telecom suggests that subscribers using 5G networks may need to change their SIM cards.

With the successful launch of the Long March 5B rocket today, China's manned spaceflight enterprise has entered a new phase.

As of January 1, 2020, there are 2,571 5G standard patents declared worldwide, of which Huawei has 3,147 to rank first, according to a report by German patent data company IPlytics.

As of the end of March, China has built a total of 198,000 5G base stations and its 5G subscribers have reached more than 50 million.