Since the beginning of the year, China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd. (China Mobile) has been driving innovation by strengthening its 5G, gigabit optical networks and intelligent computing clusters while advancing digital transformation across industries.
Laying the foundation for future innovation
China Mobile is bolstering the Yangtze River Delta’s innovation ecosystem with the first large-scale 5G-A commercial network and China’s first integrated computing power service platform. It has built a nationwide 5G-A network covering over 330 cities, deployed AI computing clusters exceeding 26 EFLOPS, upgraded its computing network system and deployed the world’s first 400G all-optical backbone network, enabling seamless, on-demand access to computing power.
China Mobile’s 5G-A integrated sensing base station [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
The company’s 5G-A technology is enhancing urban security and maritime operations, including real-time drone detection in Hefei and smart navigation monitoring on the Yangtze River in Nanjing.
China Mobile intends to further enhance its 5G-A network this year to support the low-altitude economy. The company is also driving innovations in vehicle-road collaboration and autonomous driving while expanding smart home and industrial visual inspection applications, opening new frontiers in information services.
In addition, its collaboration with Nanjing University has led to breakthroughs in ultra-fast data transmission. This innovation enables 1TB of data to be transmitted over 5,000 kilometers in just 1.5 minutes, overcoming the challenges of long-distance data transmission and strengthening China’s unified computing infrastructure.
Accelerating AI applications and industrial upgrades
China Mobile is expanding AI-driven solutions across many sectors.
At Hangzhou’s Turing Town, home to 126 national high-tech enterprises and nearly 30 AI companies, firms are training large-scale models with one hundred billion parameters to drive intelligent transformation across industry. The area’s AIGC intelligent computing center leverages dynamic resource allocation to optimize computing power usage and minimize waste. China Mobile, in partnership with the Xiaoshan District Government and H3C, has provided a comprehensive solution covering infrastructure, software platforms and computing services.
The AIGC intelligent computing center in Hangzhou’s Turing Town [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
By the end of this year, Hangzhou plans to expand its computing capacity to 5,000 PFLOPS. China Mobile’s “Baichuan” computing network will integrate decentralized computing resources, enhancing efficiency and offering flexible computing services to governments, universities and enterprises.
China Mobile is also driving its “AI+” initiative, rolling out AI-driven applications across healthcare, education and entertainment. It developed a MaaS (Model-as-a-Service) platform to provide user-friendly solutions for enterprises by transforming AI large models into SaaS-like services.
China Mobile utilizes 5G and computing network capabilities with AI models to advance AI-driven apparel design. [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
In Shanghai, China Mobile is driving AI-powered medical diagnostics, while in Zhejiang, its AI vision technology is revolutionizing retail operations. In Ningbo, China Mobile’s “LINKHAND AI” platform — developed with leading industrial AI firms — provides intelligent design and prototyping tools for apparel manufacturers, cutting production costs by 40 percent.
Empowering new energy and smart mobility
China Mobile is advancing the new energy vehicle (NEV) industry by deploying high-precision positioning services for autonomous driving. In Ningbo, its 5G and BeiDou-based technology enhances Geely’s smart driving systems, while in Shanghai, upgraded car networking solutions are boosting intelligent vehicle services.
In Ningbo, China Mobile has introduced 5G and BeiDou-based technology to enhance Geely’s smart driving systems. [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
As China enters the final year of its 14th Five-Year Plan, China Mobile remains committed to innovation in AI, smart mobility and next-generation communications, contributing to the nation’s high-quality economic development.
(Executive editor: Wang Ruoting)
