Watching a dance performed by a embodied intelligent robot and a human dancer, experiencing the high efficiency of low altitude inspection, and experiencing the intelligent cockpit of the Internet of Vehicles... At the 2025 China International Information and Communication Exhibition, the theme of "Integration of Data and Reality, New Engine, Intelligence, and New Momentum for the Future" was vividly showcased. Zhong Zhihong, Chief Engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, stated that we need to build a solid foundation for digital infrastructure, promote technological innovation and self-reliance, deepen integration and application empowerment, optimize the industry development environment, and jointly build a smarter, more inclusive, and sustainable digital future. Key indicators are leading the world during the 14th Five Year Plan period, and China's information and communication industry has achieved significant development results. The network continues to lead, technology continues to break through, and the integration of data and reality accelerates. The latest data shows that as of the end of August this year, the total number of 5G base stations in China has reached 4.646 million, and the number of 5G mobile phone users has reached 1.154 billion. China continues to lead the world in key indicators such as 5G user penetration rate and gigabit optical network coverage; Artificial intelligence innovation is active, and the cultivated and open-source artificial intelligence models have been rapidly applied in industries such as electronics, raw materials, and consumer goods; The integration of 5G applications into 86 major categories of the national economy is accelerating towards the core production processes. At the previous series of themed press conferences on "Completing the 14th Five Year Plan with High Quality", Zhang Yunming, Deputy Minister of Industry and Information Technology, introduced that China has built the world's leading and largest information and communication network in terms of technology. The network capability has entered the "dual gigabit" stage, with two-thirds of prefecture level cities in China reaching the gigabit city standard, achieving deep coverage of mobile networks in over 240000 key locations, and network coverage reaching "counties, townships, and villages", building a "information bridge" and "wealth bridge" for rural areas to share digital dividends. Coordinated development of various new types of information infrastructure. China has a computing power of 10.85 million standard racks and an intelligent computing power scale of 788EFLOPS (billions of floating-point operations per second). Information and communication technology deeply empowers the transformation of the real economy. There are more than 20000 "5G+Industrial Internet" construction projects nationwide, and a batch of new models and new business forms such as "unmanned mines", "black light factories" and "smart ports" are gradually growing. In the consumer field, new information consumption products and models such as smart terminals, e-commerce live streaming, immersive shopping, and digital cultural tourism are flourishing. During this communication exhibition, the national computing power Internet service platform ushered in a key node that has been in trial operation for one year. The platform released 31 provincial identification systems, 52 data express lines and other innovative achievements, marking that China's computing power Internet construction has entered a new stage of "one pool sharing, one network interconnection, one map insight, one touch". So far, the National Computing Power Internet Service Platform has registered and issued more than 1.02 million computing power logos and aggregated more than 117EFLOPS of public computing power resources. Among them, independent identification systems have been established in Beijing, Shanghai, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Heilongjiang, Anhui, Inner Mongolia, Hubei, Gansu, Jiangxi, Chongqing, Zhangjiakou, Suzhou and other places, achieving localized monitoring and service management of computing power operation. Zhong Zhihong introduced that we will accelerate the pilot deployment of 5G-A and 10G optical networks, and orderly promote the construction and layout of computing power centers; Accelerate technological innovation in new generation information technology, artificial intelligence, quantum information, blockchain and other fields, cultivate and develop emerging and future industries; Deepen the application of industrial Internet by classification and classification, cultivate a batch of industrial agents, and promote the deepening and implementation of the "artificial intelligence+manufacturing" action; Using the rule of law thinking to promote institutional reform, orderly advancing the expansion of value-added telecommunications services and opening up to the outside world. Zhong Zhihong stated that the deepening of AI big models is advancing rapidly in innovation and transformation of artificial intelligence. Digital intelligence technology has become a key engine for building a modern industrial system and accelerating the development of new quality productivity. It requires the entire industry to unite and fully stimulate the enormous energy contained in the integration of data and reality, fully unleash the strong driving force of "smart future", and inject a continuous stream of digital momentum into the high-quality development of China's economy. China's artificial intelligence big models are deepening and moving towards reality, with over 1500 big models released. Zeng Yu, a first level inspector of the Information and Communication Development Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, introduced that China's cultivated and open-source artificial intelligence models have been rapidly applied in industries such as electronics, raw materials, and consumer goods, forming a number of new models and formats. There are over a hundred artificial intelligence terminals such as AI smartphones, AI computers, and AI glasses. The integration infrastructure such as the Internet of Things, the Internet of Vehicles, and the Industrial Internet has been accelerated to provide power for digital transformation. Huang Luomeng, Vice President of Huawei China, believes that AI will comprehensively reshape the productivity of every industry. With the acceleration of the integration and innovation of communication technology and information technology, personal AI services have been made more accessible, creating a full scenario integrated AI service for both home and enterprise users, and expanding the business boundaries of operators. Operators are also accelerating the application of AI in all aspects of the production process and various fields of the network, achieving increased revenue, improved efficiency, and cost reduction. At this year's communication exhibition, AI applications can be seen everywhere. At the China Telecom exhibition area, a embodied intelligent robot and human dancers performed a British song and dance together. The robot's movements were precise and coordinated seamlessly with humans. "Behind this is China Telecom's powerful 5G ultra-low latency network, cloud computing and edge computing capabilities to ensure the transmission of massive sensing data and real-time decision-making control of AI. ”The staff told the reporter. China Tower showcased the spatial governance industry's big model - the Jingwei Big Model, which includes an 18 billion parameter visual big model and a 198 billion parameter multimodal big model, with capabilities such as object detection, zero sample open detection, graphic question answering, and reasoning. At present, the Jingwei large model has completed DeepSeek capability integration, lightweight compression, engineering deployment, and pilot platform verification, and is accelerating the iterative development and commercial application of segmented industry large models. In addition, the universal iron tower intelligent agent based on the human like intelligent cognitive architecture only takes 2.6 seconds to complete a single inference decision task. By 2024, the scale of China's artificial intelligence industry will exceed 900 billion yuan, and in the future, resonance will be achieved in the three dimensions of technology, application, and ecology. ”Vice President of China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Wei Liang, said. 5G-A (Evolution and Enhanced Version of 5G Network) is a crucial stage in the upgrade of 5G to 6G. Huang Xianqiong, a second level inspector of the Information and Communication Development Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, stated that the 5G-A 10 Gigabit network's higher speed and lower latency capabilities demonstrate new features such as communication intelligence integration, sensing integration, and satellite ground integration. Dai Xiaohui, Secretary General of the China Communications Standards Association, believes that the vigorous development of 5G-A has brought unlimited vision to the upcoming era of 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Continuous investment from industry, academia, research, and application has helped China's 10 Gigabit Ethernet industry to further expand its commercial scale. Operators, equipment manufacturers, and vertical industries have actively deepened cooperation, initially building a complete industry chain covering chips, terminals, networks, and applications. Application promotion has achieved phased results, and demonstration projects in key areas have been orderly implemented, promoting the formation of a complete closed loop of business models. Huang Luomeng introduced that 5G-A brings powerful capabilities such as 10 gigabit speed and ultra-low latency, building an "information highway" for collaboration between terminals, networks, and cloud AI. In this mode, the terminal only retains lightweight models responsible for real-time response, and hands over complex computing tasks to the cloud or edge nodes for end-to-end cloud collaboration, which will greatly accelerate the AI inclusive process. 5G-A has upgraded its capacity, speed, latency, positioning, reliability, and other aspects based on 5G, with peak speeds jumping from gigabit to 10 gigabit. At present, 5G-A has entered a phase of large-scale deployment in China, with over 300 cities initiating large-scale deployment. Li Hui, Chief Engineer of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology, believes that compared to 5G, 5G-A has better network performance and can incubate and cultivate a 6G application ecosystem ahead of schedule in the 5G stage, reserve 6G development capabilities, and effectively support the growth of digital application scale and innovative development. Huang Guang, member of the Party Group and Deputy Director of the Communication Management Bureau of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, introduced that Guangxi has achieved intelligent management and automated material inventory of nearly 20000 square meters of factories in the field of intelligent industry through 5G-A passive IoT technology. In the field of information consumption, Nanning, Liuzhou, and Guilin have deployed 5G-A network capabilities on a large scale, providing users with a high-speed experience of 3Gbps downstream. Zhong Zhihong stated that we will increase our efforts in technological innovation and research, accelerate the enrichment of the 5G-A product system, and promote the deployment of high-quality networks. Accelerate the research and development of 6G technology, proactively layout and cultivate an application industry ecosystem for 6G. Targeting the high ground of future technology and industrial development, accelerating technological innovation in new generation information technology, artificial intelligence, quantum information, blockchain and other fields, cultivating and developing emerging and future industries. (New Society)