Shanghai Vice-mayor Wu Qing made the world's first 5G video call on March 30, 2019, in Hongkou, Shanghai.
Now 5G, fifth-generation mobile communication technology is coming. Compared with 2G, 3G and 4G, 5G is not independent and brand-new. It is further development of present mobile communication technology.
5G makes information break through the limitation (限制) of time and space, providing a more wonderful user experience. It will influence all areas of the society in the future, such as industrial machines, farming equipment,transportation and so on. It's much faster—the 5G mobile network is more than one hundred times faster than the 4G mobile network. It will also realize the general hope of "Get the information whenever you want and all things on earth are at your fingertips".
In recent years,China has paid great attention to the use of 5G and made great efforts to develop 5G network. China is expected to become the world's largest 5G market by 2025 with 460 million users. The user number in China is expected to be bigger than that of Europe (205 million) and the United States (187 million) combined. Backed by 5G, China's mobile ecosystem (生态系统) is expected to add 6 trillion yuan in value to the national economy (经济) in 2023, up from 5. 2 trillion yuan last year.