en.Wedoany.com Reported - On May 17, 2026, the 2026 World Telecommunication and Information Society Day Conference was grandly held in Wuhan, Hubei Province. He Shuping, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of China Information and Communication Technologies Group Corporation (hereinafter referred to as "CICT Group"), was invited to attend the opening ceremony and delivered a keynote speech titled "Fortifying the Digital Lifeline: Resiliently Safeguarding the Interconnected World." In his speech, He Shuping emphasized that strengthening technological innovation is the core of CICT's efforts to consolidate digital resilience. The group is focusing on three major directions—concentrating on core functions, tackling core weaknesses, and empowering collaborative innovation—to build a systematic innovation system and form an industrial landscape with prominent main businesses and efficient synergy.
In his speech, He Shuping systematically elaborated for the first time on CICT's "Four-fold Resilience" practice path for the intelligent era. The first fold is consolidating "Physical Resilience" with ultra-large capacity optical fiber networks. He revealed that CICT is comprehensively promoting the leap of optical communications towards 10G optical networks, and the minimum attenuation of its newly developed hollow-core anti-resonant fiber in the 1550nm band has dropped to 0.063dB/km, ranking among the international advanced level. At the same time, the group's development of the world's first 2.5Pb/s ultra-large capacity optical transmission system, and the 100% localization breakthrough achieved in 50G PON key technologies, are all building a "low-latency, deep-resilience, high-quality" all-optical foundation for the data torrent of the AI intelligent computing era.
The second fold is building "Three-dimensional Resilience" for ubiquitous connectivity with an integrated space-air-ground-sea network. He Shuping pointed out that CICT pioneered the technical path of "5G system compatibility, 6G system integration," leading the world in the number of 5G NTN standard project approvals, and achieving a generational breakthrough in inter-satellite laser communication technology, building a full-stack product system from satellite-borne base stations to ground gateway stations. Furthermore, CICT is the only enterprise globally that has independently opened up the entire industrial chain from chip devices to ocean engineering, and its self-developed submarine optical repeaters have become key nodes ensuring global interconnection.
The third fold is ensuring the "System Resilience" of information and communication networks through network intelligence. CICT is promoting the industry's upgrade from mere "connectivity" to an integration of "connectivity + computing power + intelligence." He Shuping cited examples, stating that through the deep integration of AI and optical networks, the network's self-healing capability has been significantly enhanced. The group's "5G+AI" industry solutions have been deployed in multiple countries, its 50G PON all-optical intelligent computing solution is empowering intelligent manufacturing, and its large-model integrated machines and secure communication solutions are playing important roles in safeguarding financial transaction security and other areas.
The fourth fold is cultivating "Ecological Resilience" through global industrial chain and innovation chain collaboration. He Shuping stated that CICT adheres to open cooperation, having put optical cable bases into production in places like Hungary and Thailand, and actively participating in the co-construction of the "China-Chile 'Belt and Road' ICT National Laboratory." Through technology sharing, joint standard setting, and industrial co-prosperity, it enhances the inclusiveness and shock resistance of the global digital ecosystem.
Regarding strengthening the innovation system, He Shuping introduced that CICT is focusing on solidifying four core competencies: "Comprehensive," "New," "Special," and "Core," and continuously optimizing the "One Body, Two Wings" business layout, with wired + wireless and cloud-network integration as the main business body, integrated circuits and optoelectronics as the left wing, and intelligent applications as the right wing. To concentrate efforts on solving "bottleneck" problems, the group has established a Generic Technology Research Institute to tackle common technologies in communication chips, and has taken the lead in forming a Silicon-based Optoelectronic Integration Innovation Consortium, striving to break through core technology and industrialization bottlenecks.
Prior to this, CICT had already made significant progress in multiple key technology areas. For example, the National Information Optoelectronics Innovation Center, initiated and established by the group, successfully launched the world-leading 170GHz lithium niobate thin-film photoelectric modulator, and for the first time released a fully domestically produced 12-inch silicon photonics full-process kit (PDK/ADK/TDK), completely clearing the industrialization blockages from silicon photonic chip design to mass production.
The theme of this conference is "Digital Lifeline: Strengthening Resilience in an Interconnected World," echoing the global high attention to the security and reliability of information and communication networks, the "main artery" of the digital society. He Shuping's speech clearly outlined CICT's strategic blueprint for comprehensively safeguarding this "lifeline," from fundamental technological breakthroughs to building a multi-dimensional ecosystem.
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