Reporter Blog Another Way To Fight Virus: Will 5G Become A "Wonder" To Conquer The Virus?

Ni Yuwen

During the epidemic period, the express storage downstairs in a middle and high-grade residential area in Shenzhen has changed a lot, and the express cabinet in the hall has been unable to meet the demand. The newly opened Express small room has been expanded three times, first adding a few tables, then opening the new room, and then expanding the room again. Now it seems to be a small express apartment, instead of the original use.

If it happened 10 years ago

A friend working in Shenzhen told me that in order to deal with the epidemic situation, a shed was set up downstairs and new shelves were put up to store takeout and express delivery. This is under the epidemic situation, we use the "Online + contactless" technology to prevent the spread of the virus.

However, the temporary changes triggered by the epidemic situation have far-reaching impacts. Because of the development of Internet and science and technology, our living space and exchange mode have produced industrial revolution. Once upon a time, we built a house and had residential space; then we invented the car, and the way of travel changed, and there were garages and parking spaces. Now, express space has become an indispensable part of the community, and even the real estate developers will take the spacious express delivery as an attraction.

It is also the epidemic that has accelerated the popularization of online and standardized services in daily life. This epidemic has taught us that human beings will enter the future of online, cloud and virtualization without turning back. In addition to logistics, it is obvious that online office, live broadcast, e-commerce and education have entered a new industrial stage.

Technology, communication and so on are the support of technology and application. In the process of anti epidemic, science and technology plays a very important role. In the short-term difficult to reach the specific medicine and vaccine, science and technology has become another way to resist the virus. There are many ways to control the epidemic, including vaccines, drugs, cutting off routes, controlling the source of infection and so on. Online work and life can be very effective in stopping the spread of the virus while returning to work.

At present, there are many views on the economic decline brought about by the epidemic. However, if the new crown pneumonia epidemic occurred 10 years ago or 20 years ago, with the technological development level at that time, the economic stagnation may be more serious. If there is no Internet support, no express logistics, economic losses are even more unimaginable.

For example, for the Internet, software industry, and some semiconductor design companies, even if they do not go out, the economic impact will be limited. These are the most vital industries. Another example is the film industry. 20 years ago, it was totally impossible to see a movie without going to the cinema, but now you can watch it online. In the future, cinemas will continue to develop VR glasses. Even everyone can own the exclusive VR glasses of a cinema. They can log in and buy tickets through their exclusive ID. as the offline cost is lower, the price will be cheaper than that of cinemas. This is a possible way to view movies in the future.

5g application promoted by epidemic situation

On the whole, the ability of human beings to fight against virus and epidemic situation is stronger. At present, biomedicine has not been able to solve this problem perfectly, but internet science can solve this problem from another level. We can imagine that if our online level can reach 80%, 90% and 100%, it will be easier to block the epidemic. How will human civilization eventually develop? In the future, the purpose of human meeting may return to pure social contact. Production work can be online without meeting every day.

At present, 5g is an important technology of online. In this epidemic, we found that our existing video capacity is not strong enough. One or two people can afford a video conference. When dozens or hundreds of people are online at the same time, various technical problems arise. We found that production and life have such a big demand for communication capacity and 5g.

Some people question the use of 5g, but in my opinion, migrating to the cloud is a real opportunity for 5g. Office can be operated online, but it is still far from the demand. The speed of video conference is still too slow. Many companies may have a delay of 3-5 seconds for teleconferencing from Shenzhen to Wuhan and Changsha, which is 50% lower than the on-site meeting efficiency. Isn't this 50% efficiency improvement an opportunity for 5g? Now we are fighting the epidemic with 4G. In the next Internet of things era, the demand for 5g and other communication technologies will be more fierce.

In recent media communication meetings between Huawei, Intel and other technology giants, executives repeatedly mentioned that 5g new infrastructure opportunities were seen in the epidemic crisis, which is the general trend of intelligent and digital life in the future. On April 16, Xu Kemin, director of the Department of industrial policies and regulations of the Ministry of industry and information technology, also mentioned "Internet +" and "5g".

Xu Kemin said that in order to promote the coordinated resumption of the industrial chain, one measure is to stimulate the vitality of the domestic demand market, give full play to the role of "Internet +", stimulate traditional consumption such as textile, household appliances and automobiles, actively support the development of new modes and formats such as telemedicine, online education, digital science popularization and online office, so as to drive the consumption of intelligent terminals and services. We will accelerate the construction of new infrastructure such as 5g network, Internet of things, big data, artificial intelligence, industrial Internet and smart city, and accelerate the construction of key projects in industry and communication industry. From this, we can see that it is urgent to speed up the construction of science and technology and develop the productive forces.

Some people in the public opinion expect to solve the virus problem once and for all, and even point out that the epidemic situation can be reduced in the countryside without the development of big cities. However, human beings themselves have natural enemies. It is an idealistic idea that there should never be an epidemic. The epidemic situation can not be divided into urban areas or rural areas. It is even more difficult to gain an advantage in competition if we do not develop big cities, science and technology and the Internet, and productivity does not move forward.

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