China plans to balance the deployment of international communication gateways across its eastern, central, and western regions while expanding international submarine and land cable information channels. A satellite internet system that integrates both space and ground facilities will also be established, as outlined in a document released by the National Data Bureau.
The guidelines, issued for feedback, state that China aims to enable large-scale, low-cost, and secure data flow, encouraging industries and regions to explore new technological infrastructures, such as blockchain and privacy-preserving computing. This will provide a cost-effective, efficient, and reliable environment for both centralized and decentralized transactions, as reported by CGTN.
Additionally, China will focus on optimizing the layout of computing resources, advancing the green development of general-purpose, intelligent, and supercomputing power, and promoting the coordination of these resources. The guidelines also highlight efforts to strengthen the innovative application of emerging network technologies, streamline network billing systems, and reduce data transmission costs between the eastern and western regions.
The 5G-A network will offer improvements over the current 5G network in terms of speed, latency, connection scale, and energy consumption, with peak data rates of 10 gigabits per second for downloads and 1 gigabit per second for uploads, as well as millisecond-level latency and low-cost IoT connectivity. Cities like Beijing and Shanghai have already begun offering 5G-A services in certain districts.
