China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) issued its 15th
Five-Year Plan for the information and communications industry, prioritizing
supply‑chain resilience and accelerated deployment of advanced telecom
infrastructure. The plan mandates R&D of 6G base stations and core networks;
development of intelligent optical transport and access equipment,
high‑performance AI routers and network switches; breakthroughs in spaceborne
communications equipment; and development of 6G smartphones. It calls for an
operating system based on OpenHarmony to enable agent communication and
environmental sensing and to expand the app ecosystem, and seeks co-optimization
of new terminals — smart glasses, smart‑home hubs and brain‑computer interfaces
— with networks, plus faster progress on high‑end communications test and
measurement instruments.
