-Guangzhou will witness the 2020 World 5G Convention on November 26

This article was written by the World 5G Convention Organizing 
Committee(reported by Science and Technology Daily):

The 2020 World 5G Convention, co-hosted by the People's Government of Guangdong 
Province of the PRC, National Development and Reform Commission of the PRC, 
Ministry of Science and Technology of the PRC, and Ministry of Industry and 
Information Technology of the PRC, will be held in Guangzhou from November 26 
to 28. The theme of the Convention is "5G+ By All for All ".

On March 4, a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 
CPC Central Committee emphasized to speed up the construction of new 
infrastructures such as 5G networks and data centers. When General Secretary Xi 
Jinping visited Zhejiang, Shaanxi and other places this year, he successively 
gave important instructions on accelerating the construction of new 
infrastructure such as 5G. 

With the deepening of a new round of global technological revolution and 
industrial transformation, 5G has become a priority development area in the 
world's digital economy development strategy. According to the prediction of 
the Global Association for Mobile Communications Systems, by 2024, there will 
be nearly 1.2 billion 5G users worldwide. China Academy of Information and 
Communications Technology predicts that the cumulative investment in China's 5G 
network construction is potential to reach RMB 1.2 trillion by 2025. It will 
fuel the upstream and downstream industrial chain and application investment in 
various industries to exceed RMB 3.5 trillion. From 2020 to 2025, China's 5G 
commercial use will indirectly drive the total economic output of about RMB 
24.8 trillion.  

The World 5G Convention is the world's first international event in the 5G 
field, and it was held in Beijing for the first time in 2019. The Convention 
gathered experts and scholars as well as business executives from all over the 
world to conduct in-depth discussions centering on the theme of "5G - Change 
the World, Create the Future". Here is the list of the participants of the 
opening ceremony: Cai Qi, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central 
Committee and Secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee; Wang Yong, 
State Councilor; Wang Zhigang, Minister of Ministry of Science and Technology 
of the PRC; Miao Wei, former Minister of Ministry of Industry and Information 
Technology of the PRC; and Lin Nianxiu, Deputy Director of the National 
Development and Reform Commission of the PRC. It fully embodies the high 
attention the Party and state leaders pay to 5G development. 

The 2020 World 5G Convention will be held in Guangzhou, where it will gather 
important and influential scientists in the global information and 
communication field, world-renowned 5G service providers, and 5G industry 
application providers to conduct exchanges and discussions on cutting-edge 
technologies, industry trends, and innovative applications in the 5G field. The 
Convention will fully reflect the traction of 5G in the world's new economic 
form and the importance of 5G in the new dual-cycle development pattern and 
highlight that 5G promotes the upgrading of traditional industries and a new 
digital life, "smartly benefits", demonstrating the role and value of 5G 
industry empowerment to the world. 

According to the introduction released by the Organizing Committee of the World 
5G Convention, the Convention will be held in a new click-and-mortar way, 
consisting of an opening ceremony, a main forum and summit forums. 5G and Media 
Industry Transformation Forum as well as 5G and Digital Life New Consumption 
Forum will be firstly held on November 25. The opening ceremony and the main 
forum will be held in the morning on November 26. Summit forums will be held 
successively from the afternoon on November 26 to 27, including Digital Economy 
Led by 5G and Sustainable Development Forum, 5G and the Greater Bay Area 
Development Forum, The 3rd AI & I Guangzhou International Summit 2020, 5G and 
Industrial Internet Forum, 5G and Public Health & Healthcare Forum, 5G and 
Smart Transportation Forum, 2020 International Seminar on Future Information 
Communication Technologies and Strategies, and so on. Extensive discussion will 
be made under different themes and in diverse fields.

During the Convention, an exhibition with an area of about 12,000 square meters 
will be held from November 26 to 28, displaying new life, new industries, new 
technologies and other themes. The interactive display space will be built 
around social production activities, including family life, health care, 
financial consumption, social communication, education and entertainment, 
transportation and logistics, production and manufacturing, urban management 
and other 5G application service scenarios. The exhibition will focus on 
displaying the outstanding cases of 5G applications so far, highlighting the 
achievements of 5G benefiting the public and empowering industries. Visitors 
can experience 5G smart life applications in person, have in-depth experience 
of the promotion of 5G to industrial production, and have a comprehensive 
understanding of the new technologies, new products in upstream and downstream 
of the 5G industrial chain.

In the Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay 
Area issued by the Central Committee of the CPC and the State Council in 
February 2019, it is clearly stated that we should promote the new-generation 
information technologies and develop them into new pillar industries, and 
foster a number of major industrial projects in key areas such as new display 
technologies, new-generation communication technologies, 5G and mobile Internet.

As one of the organizers of the Convention, Guangdong province has been 
actively promoting the development of 5G industrial application. In 2019, 
Guangdong Province issued the Guangdong Provincial Action Plan for Accelerating 
the Development of 5G Industry (2019-2022), specifying the goal and direction 
for the development of 5G industry. As one of the first 5G pilot cities in 
China, Guangzhou attaches great importance to seizing the opportunity for the 
rapid development of 5G, accelerating the cultivation of new business types, 
new economies and new momenta, and creating new momentum led by science and 
technology, so as to provide important support for Guangzhou to realize the 
goal of "old city, new vitality". The Convention will explore the new starting 
point, new directions and new opportunities of 5G combining the development 
trend of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area and taking account of 
the commercial implementation process, promote the integration of 5G into all 
industries, and link all things to benefit the public, and empower the 
construction of the Greater Bay Area.

The registration channel for participating the 2020 World 5G Convention and the 
exhibition is now open. For details, please refer to the official website of 
the Convention www.w5gc.com. 

Source: Science and Technology Daily