 Welcome to a new episode of the ITU Journal webinar series, where you can find insights and forward-looking research on future and evolving technologies. The ITU Journal is an international journal providing complete coverage of all communications and networking paradigms, free of charge for both readers and authors. This publication considers yet to be published papers addressing fundamental and applied research, building bridges between disciplines, connecting theory with application, and stimulating international dialogue. Its interdisciplinary approach reflects ITU's comprehensive field of interest and explores the convergence of ICT with other disciplines. We count on your support to make this webinar an interesting experience. Please submit your questions via the Q&A channel at the bottom of your screen. All questions from the audience will be taken during the Q&A session after the talk. The meeting is being recorded and the recording will be made available on the webinar website. Closed captioning is also available for this event. You can enable this by clicking on the closed caption icon at the bottom of your screen. We hope that you will enjoy the talk and we encourage you to stay connected until the end for the wisdom corner. I will now give the floor to our master of ceremonies. Hello and welcome to the webinar series with CTOs and industry leaders of the IT Journal on Future in Evolving Technologies. My name is Alessia Magliarditti from ITU, the International Telecommunication Union, United Nations Specialized Agency for Information and Communication Technologies. It is my pleasure to open our webinar today with Ms Wang, Chief Scientist at China Mobile. After the Q&A session as just announced by our avatar, I will moderate the wisdom corner. Live life lessons. So please say online. Ms Wang agreed to a personal chat. She will share with us some lessons learned over the years that might perhaps be useful for some of you. It is my honor now to give the floor to Mr Onoe San, Director of the ITU Telecommunications Standardization Bureau for his welcome remarks. The floor is yours, Onoe San. Thank you, colleagues and friends. Welcome to our discussion today and thank you for joining us. This special series of ITU webinars with CTOs shares unique insights on industry ambitions and innovations and the way to achieve them. 5G, 6G and network intelligence were the dominant themes in our talks from NTT Dogomo, Deutsche Telekom, GSMA and Nokia. Our networks are growing sophistication and complexity to meet the needs of the increasingly wide variety of applications, many of which present extremely demanding service requirements. When we speak of 5G, 6G and network intelligence, we are speaking of a very broad scope of innovation. Our talk from CTOs have covered a lot of ground and I would encourage you to review them on our website. Today, Ms Wan Xiaoying, Chief Scientist at China Mobile, will guide us through the company's strategy to ensure that future networks meet growing demand for connectivity and computing and that network capability are comprehensive enough to support emerging and future applications. Thank you very much. We highly appreciate your support. These talks from CTOs are presented by the ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies. Our journal embodies ITU's commitment to the public interest. It is unique in publishing top tier papers at no charges to authors and readers. Our editor-in-chief, Ian Arcadius, leads the ITU's journal with great vision and dedication, and we are very fortunate to enjoy his support. I encourage you to read Professor Agildis with any questions you may have about how you could get involved. We welcome research on all topics, all year long. 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I'm now very pleased to give the floor to Professor Ian McIldits, Editor-in-Chief of the ITU Journal, for his welcome remarks. Thank you, Ian. The floor is yours. Thank you, Alessia. Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening worldwide from Abu Dhabi with love. I again welcome you all to the fourth season of our ITU Journal for Future and Evolving Technologies webinar series. In the first three seasons, we had the research leaders from the academia, where we had the leaders from the industry in the third season. The objective of our journal is to bring the academic and industrial works together in order to establish a strong bridge between academia and industry. Our journal ideas were incubated back in December 2019, and the inaugural issue came out in December 2020. It is an open access journal, no fees for the readers and no fees for the authors. 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Thank you, Bilal. Thank you very much, Alessia. Thank you, Yin and Ono San. I'm very pleased to introduce our speaker today. Dr. Wang is the Chief Scientist and Deputy Chief Engineer of China Mobile Communications Corporation. She was a member of the NGMM Board and a leading initiator of the GTI International Organization. She's one of the technical leads in the field of mobile communications in China and has been dedicated to the research of mobile communications network technology and systems architecture. As the overall technical leader of China Mobile, she has led three major technical innovation projects in 3G, 4G and 5G and has made systemic and pioneering contributions to TDD network deployment, access network and core network systems architecture research, promoting the global development of TDD technology and industry. And recently, she focuses on the research in 6G network architecture and computing and network integrated architecture. I'm very pleased to welcome you. Ms. Wang, the floor is yours. Hi, everyone. Dear Director Ono San and colleagues, good afternoon, everyone. It's my great pleasure to join you for this webinar. First of all, I want to thank Ono San for inviting me. We have been old friends since the days of 3G and I'm always grateful for his support in promoting TDD technology. It's incredible how time has passed now. Here we are in the area of 5G, 6G. Everything is changing rapidly. The technology, the industry, the market. So for the next 20 minutes, I will be focusing on the telecom operators transformation in the new landscape. My slides have three parts. Now I will present the first part. In the human history, each industrial revolution has greatly promoted the social and economic development. In recent years, the development of new information technology represented by 5G, AI, cloud computing, IoT, and blockchain has been so rapid. Many experts believe that humankind has entered the fourth industrial revolution characterized by digitalization and the intelligence. Data and information technology have become new important production factors. They can reshape the traditional industry and drive rapid economic growth. The fourth industrial revolution significantly promotes the development of digital economy. In China, the digital economy accounted for over 40 of GDP in 2022, and its total value is over 50 trillion RMB. In addition, the digital economy's growth rate is more than 10% every year, which is higher than GDP growth. For the pie chart on the right, we can see the scale of the digital technology transforming the traditional industry is over 80% of the digital economy. Clearly, the digital economy has empowered efforts on the real economy. Furthermore, the global technology revolution is progressing rapidly. In the field of information and communication, a significant trade is emerging. The integrated innovation will play a more important role. It is due to the fact that the single point technological breakthroughs are reaching their limits. For instance, as semiconductor processes advance from 5 to 3 and further to 2 nanometer, the continuation of more law becomes challenging. The wireless communication capacity is reaching the limits imposed by Shannon's Syrian. Therefore, the integrated technology innovation has become a new and important breakthrough approach. Many companies are now exploring how communication networks can elaborate AI to enhance performance and efficiency. Others are researching the integration of communication and sensing, computing, and material science. We eagerly anticipate that this integrated innovation will unlock solutions and create new opportunities. Telecom operators are an important part of the digital industry and the main engine of the digital economy. We should actively accelerate the transformation to meet the new requirements. Firstly, operators need to further expand our service scope and shift from traditional communication service providers to information service providers. In the past, we mainly provided voice short messages and data transmission services. In the future, we need to provide information transmission, computing, storage services, and products. Secondly, the service objectives are expanding from individual consumers to various fields, such as enterprises, families, and governments. We hope our information services can be deeply integrated with consumers' production, life, and governance. Thirdly, the development mode is transforming from network resource-driven to innovation-driven. Operators need to pay more attention to technology and product innovation. Then is the second part. From the first section, we understand that it's crucial for operators to transform in the digital economy area. Furthermore, how can operators strive to stay ahead? We propose two ideas. First, transforming network infrastructure, which should shift from a connection-oriented to a computing-oriented approach in order to provide information services. Second, involving the service system, which should move away from traditional service and towards new information services. Based on this viewpoint, we believe that a new future network should be constructed, characterized by ubiquitous connectivity and ubiquitous capability. This network has four key features. The first feature is multi-domain ubiquitous connectivity. First, satellite communication is a game changer. In the past two years, some newly launched smartphones have enabled satellite connectivity, making it a popular trait. We think that the future network will integrate terrestrial and satellite communication. Secondly, sensing technology pays a significant role in the next generation technology. ITU has outlined six typical 6G scenarios, highlighting the importance of sensing capability. These technologies clearly outline the path for drone, vehicles, ships, and among others. The integrated sensing and communication technology will drive the future network for information transmission to perception of the world. The second feature is United Computing Infrastructure. We believe it should serve as a foundation of future networks, enabling real-time processing of massive data and supporting AI training and inference. In order to achieve the unified computing infrastructure, we need to enrich the computing power types, including CPU, GPU, and supercomputing. Furthermore, the central cloud, edge cloud, and terminal computing should be included. All optical and IP networks should be introduced to support ultra-fast, highly reliable transmission between computing nodes. Recently, the computing-aware routing technology has emerged as a research hotspot capable of integrating computing and network capability more deeply. The third feature is diversified integrated capacity. The traditional network struggles to meet the diverse demands of society, industry, and ecosystem. It is crucial to incorporate several capabilities that are deeply integrated within the future network. The first of these is AI. AI enables network planning, optimization, operation, maintenance, resulting in network efficiency. The network can also empower AI, making it more pervasive. The second aspect is security. The future network must support full process trustworthiness. New security technologies such as zero trust and trusted computing should be considered. The third element is a deterministic network which aims to provide SLA assurance for the future network. The fourth feature is integrated always state or restriction service. It will be supported by the brain of the computing utility network. The brain is a core system that uniformly arranges scheduled managers and maintenance computer computing and network resources. With the brain as an intelligent control center, the future network will function as a service platform which can facilitate diverse information service flexibility. This architecture diagram shows our understanding of future network. A unified foundation for computing a network will be built introducing high-speed optical network connecting computing nodes. Ubiquitous access will be enabled, spanning from the air to the ground and the integration of capability including communication, sensing, computing and intelligence will be supported. Ultimately, the future network will serve as a comprehensive platform facilitating integrated information service. At last is the third part. Recently, China Mobile has actively expanded into new fields of information services, accelerating the transformation from traditional telecom operator to information service and the SineTech innovation enterprise. The business performance has consistently improved with operating revenue exceeding 930 billion RMB in 2022. Meanwhile, revenue from conventional service like voice and text messages is decreasing while digital service income is increasing gradually, accounting from over 25 in 2022. Furthermore, total connection has reached more than 3 billion with half of these being IoT connections. All of these shows the emergence of new growth drivers. We always regard connection as a foundation of our development. To date, we have built the world's largest network. Our 5G base station exceeds 1.9 million covering all of the cities, key towns and villages throughout the country. The number of 5G tariff users reached 733 million. Furthermore, we are driving the maturity of 5G technology industry actively contributing to 3GPP and ITU. We also start research on 6G and released 37 technical white papers. In the future, we hope to further strengthen international cooperation and to form a globally unified 3G standard. We introduce the concept of computing a fourth network, CFN in 2021. After two years, we gradually promote CFN from a concept into reality. We have preliminary established nationwide CFN infrastructure with total computing capacity reached 9.5 e-flows and nationwide latency reduced to 20 milliseconds. We are constructing the largest operators intelligent computing center. We have developed a computing power access platform which has accessed third-party computing resources exceeding 1.9 e-flows. And we have also developed a brain platform to manage and schedule all computing and network resources. In addition, we are driving the CFN innovation. We have proposed computing power routing and the initiated standard development in ITF. Lastly, I will discuss the progress of our other digital technologies. We have created a capability open platform just like a flexible capability superstar. The platform has aggregated 990 capabilities and more than 40 billion capabilities cores per mouse. Taking AI as an example, we have already developed more than 370 AI capabilities. This year, we are researching and applying AI large models to the intelligent customer service, smart government, intelligent network operations, among others. Finally, I would like to summarize the three key points of my speech today. Firstly, I explained why I believe it's essential for telecom operators to transform in order to meet the new demands of digital economy and adapt to technology shifts, technological shifts. Secondly, I addressed the question of what I believe telecom operators should do to accelerate transformation from communication service providers to information service providers. Lastly, I showcased how, in my opinion, we need to build a future ready network which ambiguous connectivity, computing power and capability and create a new information infrastructure and a new information service system. That's all is my speech. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much, Madame Wang, for the excellent presentation, very clear. We now would like to encourage the participants to put their questions in the chat or in the Q&A button, and then we'll ask you to maybe answer some of these questions. We have one question online related to the platform for network computing. If it will be subject of standardization or it can be treated as the mobile network operator domain specific or MNO will adapt to hyperscalers platforms. So perhaps we'll ask you to address this question first. Okay. It's a great, it's for China Mobile's network. Not the cloud company provide hyperscale. Maybe I can let my translator to translate. This is the computing regarding the computing power network that's introduced by Madame Wang, and this is built by China Mobile. It's not for the hyperscalers. Okay. So it's more domain specific to the mobile network operator. Very good. And I don't have any other questions online, but a note in your presentation that there is a significant new growth with the digital transformation and the information aspects versus the traditional voice and SMS. So certainly congratulations on that change in the business drive and also the results show the impact. Could you summarize maybe quickly two of the key elements that were part of that growth segment in your network? Let me think. Okay. I'd like to introduce you the two main growth areas. Which number one is the cloud services offerings for our customers? And number two is the 2B business domain, especially the ICT solutions. Great. Thank you very much. Maybe to conclude the Q&A section in terms of future research for academics. What would be the one or two areas of research that you would encourage universities to work on in the next few years? I'd like to recommend especially the integrated innovation, especially the combination of sensing with communication and as well as the artificial intelligence with communication. Excellent. Thank you very much. We don't have any other questions, so I'd like to thank you very much for your presentation and for answering the questions. And I turn it over to Alessia for the wisdom corner. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much Bilal for moderating this session and thank you to our speaker for your very interesting presentation. So now we can move to the wisdom corner. The live life lessons, which is based upon the idea to give a unique and special angle to this series of webinars. So we would like to add a personal touch. So if I may, I would ask my first question, which is your hard-earned life lessons that you would like to share with us today that perhaps might be useful for some of the people attending this webinar today and maybe for the ones that will watch it, who will watch the recordings. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Okay. It's a hard question, but if let me share the live lesson, I would like to share a Chinese famous point, Su Shi's famous saying, charge at the toughest and aim at the fastest. Yeah. It's the point. It means to take on the biggest challenges and go after the most ambitious goals. In addition, we need always try to go out of our comfort zone and to do the different things. So that we will gain more and always improve ourselves, I think. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. I was actually referring to maybe some experience that you had in your life that was a tough one that if you want to share with us. But if not, I can move to the second question. Yeah. I think my tough thing is for 4G, we promote the TDLTE to be the international standard and combine with FDD to integrate it with FDD. Then the LTE is being the only international 4G standard. It's my tough target. Yeah. All right. Thank you. I would like to ask you how will, in your opinion, generative AI and like child GPT impact the future of research and also everyone's life in general? Yeah. Child GP has much impact in both technology research and our daily lives. Its ability is to rapidly analyze data, generate text, and summarize information, which is driving scientific progress and advancing our comprehensive or complex ideas. And the child GP capability for developing code is are sharing in exciting new possibilities in software engineering. Yeah. It's very great. And in our personal lives, child GP streamlines daily tasks, functioning as a virtual assistant, chatbot, and educational aids, empowering us to do more and know more. I think it's great to help for us. In fact, the child GP can answer all this question very great. I think in the future, I think for us, the important thing is to study how to communicate and ask questions with AI, with child GP. Thank you. Thank you a lot. I would like to ask you if you could tell us one of the most tangible contributions that you have made in your career? It had an impact on your life and maybe on the life of the ones close to you? Yeah. Maybe I have answered previous in the previous question. During my career, the achievements I'm participating proud of is playing a role in early aspects of 4G development, TDLT plan. It's from standard setting to innovative technology to industry promotion. My efforts helped drive the construction of millions of 4G based stations in China and advising mobile internet development and transforming people's lifestyle. With 4G wireless communication become accessible everywhere, making tasks like checking news, watching videos, shopping and remote work effortless. I'm grateful to have contributed to such a milestone in the industry. Yeah. Fantastic. Thank you so much. Thank you for adding details. I would like to ask you my last question. How do you stay up to date with the latest advancements and research in the ICT field? Is there any journal, conferences, books that you probably read recently or communities that you would recommend young researchers to engage with? Okay. To remain updated in ICT, I will actively participate in academic and industry forums, maintain communication with enterprises and follow technology-related accounts. This helped broaden my perspective and provide a deeper understanding of trade and developments in the fields. About a book, I recently read The Three-Body Problem, written by a Chinese character Liu Zixin. Liu is a famous Chinese writer. It offers an exciting and thought-provoking exploration of human history, technology and our place in the universe. I want to recommend this book to you if you are interested in science fiction. Yeah. All right. It is translated in English as well. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. All right. It's very interesting. Hugo Award. Hugo Award, Science Fiction from China. Okay. All right. Thank you so much. It's a very interesting book. Yeah. Okay. Well noted. Thank you for your recommendation and I would like to thank you for participating in this webinar also especially because it's pretty late in Beijing right now. Yes, midnight. Big thanks. Big thanks to you. I would like to ask also Ono Esan and Dr. Jomusi if they want to be back and say goodbye, closing words to our speaker. Thank you very much. I prepare the one photograph with you. Yeah. Do you remember this? Great. About the standalone and non-standalone for 5G. Yeah. That was a few years ago. In Japan or Korea. Yeah. Probably that's in Yokohama. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Thank you so much for sharing. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. And for all the people that will be connected, I would like to remind you that our next webinar and the last one of this season will be held on the 6th of December. So I will look forward to see you online again for our webinar. Thank you so much. Bye. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Thank you.