Networks:Challenges Overcome

Networks:Challenges Overcome

2 | Thursday, January 9, 2020 HONG KONG EDITION | CHINA DAILY PAGE TWO Timeline • Dec 1, 2018: Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wan- zhou is arrested in Canada at the request of the United States. • Jan 29, 2019: The US govern- ment hits Huawei with 23 indictments for alleged trade secrets theft and fraud. • March 8, 2019: Huawei sues the US government over a ban on the use of its equipment in US federal agencies. • May 15, 2019: Washington puts Huawei on its Entity List, forbidding the company from accessing crucial US technolo- gies without special govern- ment approval. • May 20, 2019: The US issues a 90-day temporary license, loosening restrictions on busi- ness deals with Huawei. Howev- er, the license only allows the company to buy US compo- A doctor in Changxing, Zhejiang province, uses 5G-supported telemedicine technology to administer ultrasound to a patient in a rural clinic nents to maintain its existing several kilometers away. TAN YUNFENG / FOR CHINA DAILY networks and smartphone ser- vices. • May 21, 2019: Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei says the curbs imposed by Washington will significantly harm US jobs Networks: Challenges overcome and companies, and that the US has underestimated the com- pany’s “ability to persevere”. From page 1 com industry with other sectors — the fundamental difference • June 6, 2019: Licenses grant- The country boasts the world’s larg- between 4G and 5G. ed to Chinese telecom carriers est 5G deployment, with more than The 5G network “The whole world is fascinated with for commercial use of 5G. 130,000 base stations constructed. 5G. It is high time to turn this over- Its telecom carriers provide 5G has solved whelming enthusiasm toward the new • June 21, 2019: The US places services in more than 50 cities, problems like technology into concrete efforts to pro- five more Chinese tech compa- securing a total of 3 million sub- video lag and mote its wider use,” Wang Jianzhou nies, including high-perform- scribers in just two months after the added. ance computer maker Sugon, technology was officially commer- remote control A wide variety of industries — on its Entity List. cialized, according to the Ministry of delay mining, transportation, education, Industry and Information Technolo- healthcare, manufacturing, agricul- • Aug 9, 2019: Huawei unveils gy. experienced ture and others — are scrambling to its in-house operating system Wang Zhiqin, deputy head of the under the 4G team up with Chinese tech compa- Harmony OS, a key move China Academy of Information and nies for innovative 5G applications. expected to mitigate the influ- Communications Technology, a gov- network, ensuring Significant progress has been ence of Washington’s ban on ernment think tank, said, “China has a near-real-time made. For example, in March, the the company’s access to Goo- maintained its 5G deployment world’s first 5G-based remote surgery gle’s Android operating system momentum in the face of challenges.” operation.” on a human brain was conducted on a in smartphones. She said the technology can ena- Ling Zhipei, chief physi- patient with Parkinson’s disease. ble countless devices and equip- cian at the First Medical With technological support from Above: A police • Aug 19, 2019: The US issues ment to connect to the internet and Center of the Chinese PLA Huawei and China Mobile Ltd, a robot patrols East another 90-day temporary “talk” to each other, which will make General Hospital doctor in Sanya, Hainan province, Nanjing Road in license, loosening restrictions the long-predicted era of the inter- remotely operated surgical instru- Shanghai. on business deals with Huawei. net of things a reality. ments to implant a deep brain stim- WANG GANG / “This year, we will see large-scale ulator, known as a “brain FOR CHINA DAILY • Oct 7, 2019: The US places construction of 5G networks, a 24.8 pacemaker”, into the patient in Bei- Left: Visitors try eight more Chinese tech com- kaleidoscope of industrial applica- jing, about 2,500 kilometers away. a self-driving panies, including artificial intel- tions emerging and 5G smart- trillion yuan Ling Zhipei, chief physician at the bus at a high- ligence pioneer iFlytek, on its estimated indirect phones rapidly becoming popular in First Medical Center of the Chinese tech zone in Entity List. economic output of China,” Wang added PLA General Hospital, conducted the Zhengzhou, commercialization of 5G • Oct 31, 2019: China launches Huawei estimates that some in China from this year to three-hour surgery. “The 5G network Henan province. 400,000 new 5G base stations will 2025, with direct econom- has solved problems like video lag and ZHANG TAO / commercialization of 5G servi- be built in China by the end of the ic output reaching 10.6 remote control delay experienced FOR CHINADAILY ces, with the nation’s telecom year, with services available in more trillion yuan, according under the 4G network, ensuring a carriers rolling out plans for than 300 cities. to the China Academy near-real-time operation,” Ling said. data packages. In its latest report, US investment of Information and Hospitals in China have since new role in spurring China’s bur- of 5G in China is expected to generate bank Goldman Sachs painted an Communications Tech- conducted a string of 5G-enabled geoning digital economy to a new direct economic output of 10.6 tril- • Nov 19, 2019: The US even more optimistic picture, fore- nology remote surgeries, as they strive to development stage. lion yuan ($1.5 trillion) from this year extends the 90-day temporary casting that the country would build tap the latest technologies to solve “4G has triggered a boom in Chi- to 2025, and indirect economic out- license for the third time, loos- about 1 million new 5G base stations problems such as insufficient medi- na’s consumer internet applications. put of about 24.8 trillion yuan. ening restrictions on business this year, up from its original predic- cal resources in poor regions. But the nation has no star companies But whatever gigantic numbers deals with Huawei. tion of 600,000. Derek O’Halloran, head of Shaping that excel in using digital technolo- are used to showcase the benefits of Wang Jianzhou, senior consultant the Future of Digital Economy and gies to serve businesses. That is in 5G, the technology first needs to • Dec 5, 2019: Huawei sues the with the Global System for Mobile New Value Creation at World Eco- sharp contrast to the US, where con- bring benefits to frontline workers US Federal Communications Communications Association, said: nomic Forum, said China is one of the sumer internet companies and enter- such as Liu, from the gold mine in Commission, seeking a court “Despite the different estimates, most active 5G markets in the world. prise internet companies are thriving Shandong. ruling to overturn the latter’s there is a consensus that the rapid It is at the forefront of applying the in tandem,” Chen said. He said that many people are order banning local rural tele- deployment of 5G in China will offer technology in manufacturing, health- The landscape in China will be visiting the mine to see how 5G is com carriers from using federal a sound digital infrastructure for care, media and other sectors. reshaped by 5G, which will trigger being used to upgrade the tradition- funding to purchase the com- more efforts to generate concrete Chen Hong, chairman of Hina the use of digital technologies in al industry. pany’s equipment and services. benefits for both businesses and Group, a Chinese investment com- enterprises, according to Chen. “I have taken many phone calls to consumers. It will inject new vitality Visitors try VR video with pany that has recently funded Such optimism is in line with the answer questions from our peers. • Dec 31, 2019: China secures into the push for high-quality 5G technology during the 5G-related startups, said that as the latest report from the China Acade- They are all eager to embrace the about 3 million 5G mobile sub- growth.” 2019 World 5G Convention technology deepens integration my of Information and Communica- technology, because once properly scribers, with some 130,000 He said 5G is not a simple technol- in Beijing in November. between digital technologies and tions Technology. The think tank used, 5G can save our lives in an base stations entering service. ogy. It is a platform to link the tele- CHEN XIAOGEN / FOR CHINA DAILY traditional sectors, it will also play a forecasts that the commercialization emergency,” Liu said. Huawei braces itself to withstand another year of strong headwinds By MA SI high and an increase of 18 percent second-largest smartphone vendor, and partners,” Xu said. “Survival will 5G base stations — with no US com- year-on-year. selling more than 240 million hand- be our first priority.” ponents — worldwide. Chinese tech major Huawei Tech- 850 Xu Zhijun, the company’s rotating sets, a rise of nearly 17 percent on the He said the company will “need to For example, the stations are nologies Co last year faced arguably billion yuan chairman, said in a public letter: 206 million in 2018. go all out” to build the ecosystem for being used in the 5G networks of the biggest challenge in its 30-year- revenue of Huawei last “Despite concerted efforts by the US Huawei knows that this year will Huawei Mobile Services — the foun- Sunrise, the second-largest telecom plus history. year, a record high and an government to keep us down, we’ve be tough. Xu said the company will dation for its ability to sell smart carrier in Switzerland. The company dealt with lawsuits, increase of 18 percent made it out the other side.

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