6G key to unlocking connected future

A team led by Zhang Ping, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a professor at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, has developed the world's first 6G field test network that integrates communications and intelligence.

The network allows deeper integration of communication with artificial intelligence. It demonstrates the nation's capabilities of independently developing the coming generation of communication technology despite isolation efforts of Western powers.

The United States has sought to form a 6G "clique" of Western countries. In February, the US, the United Kingdom, Australia and seven other countries issued a joint statement on the principles of 6G research and development, while Western communications giants such as NVIDIA, Amazon, Microsoft, and Samsung established the AI-RAN alliance.