On April 10, the 2025 Global 6G Technology and Industry Ecology Conference, organized by Zijinshan Laboratory and Future Mobile Communications Forum, opened in Nanjing. Zhou Hongbo, member of the Provincial Standing Committee and Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, Zhao Yan, Vice Governor, and Sun Youhong, President of Southeast University, delivered speeches. Academicians of both academies Wu Hequan, Liu Yunjie, You Xiao Hu attended.
6G is the cornerstone of future industrial development, and the world is now focusing on 6G technology, which will not only bring about the continuous upgrade of strategic digital infrastructure, but also provide new opportunities for cultivating new industries.
With the theme of "Building Innovation, Sharing the Future", this year's conference aims to promote the formation of a global consensus on 6G standards as an entry point to further move towards industry-wide co-creation.
In his speech, Zhou Hongbo introduced a series of leading achievements made by Nanjing in recent years, bearing in mind the expectations and entrustments of General Secretary Xi Jinping, with Zijinshan Laboratory as the core, ahead of the layout in the field of 6G, and systematizing the promotion of visionary research, technology research and application integration.
He said that Nanjing will be highly conscious of "taking the lead", dedicating itself to technology curation to create a frontier highland, dedicating itself to the application of results to cultivate a fertile ground for innovation, dedicating itself to the ecological co-construction to construct a "tropical rainforest", and promoting the industry-wide collaborative co-creativity and the popularization of application of the whole chain as a whole, in order to build a "6G city" and an advanced demonstration area for 6G industry development. We will make every effort to build a "6G City" and an advanced demonstration area for 6G industry development. Nanjing is looking forward to forming a closer industrial science and technology innovation community with all walks of life and moving towards the forefront of global 6G technology hand in hand.
Zhao Yan said that 6G technology is a key area to realize high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement. Our province will make every effort to build a whole chain innovation system, actively participate in key technology research, results transformation and standardization, and strive to carry the responsibility of Jiangsu in the service of the national strategy, build a firm industrial foundation in the independent control, and lead the innovation trend in the open cooperation, and make more contributions to the national situation by picking up the major achievements.
Sun Youhong said that Southeast University has been deeply involved in 6G technology research and development over the years, witnessed and promoted the leapfrog development of China's mobile communications, will continue to provide disciplines, personnel, resources and other support for the Purple Mountain Laboratory, accelerate the 6G key technology systematic research and major achievements into applications, to bear the mission of leading 6G R & D, to promote the development of information and communication technology to contribute more wisdom and strength.
Qiu Gang, Deputy Director of the Fifth Department of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Wu Hequan, Director of the Conference Advisory Board, and Robert Schubert, Co-Chairman of the Conference, delivered speeches.
The meeting highlighted the initiatives to build a "6G City" relying on the National University Information and Communication Regional Technology Transfer and Transformation Center (Jiangsu), and released the annual results of the Future Mobile Communication Forum. Zijinshan Laboratory signed contracts with Tongzhou Low Altitude and Galaxy Aerospace, and the National University Information and Communication Regional Technology Transfer and Transformation Center (Jiangsu) signed contracts with China Telecom, China Unicom and China Mobile. The conference also conducted a series of keynote speeches, roundtable discussions.
Qiu Zhiqiang, deputy secretary-general of the provincial government, Xu Guanghui, director of the Provincial Science and Technology Department, Lin Tao and Jiang Min, municipal leaders, responsible comrades of relevant provincial and municipal departments, relevant responsible comrades of Zijinshan Laboratory, and representatives of global telecommunication carriers, network equipment manufacturers, famous Internet enterprises, network experts, scientists, and experts from domestic and foreign universities and institutes, etc. attended.
