en.Wedoany.com Reported - On May 17, at the 2026 World Telecommunication and Information Society Day conference, the Emergency Communications Support Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), together with China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom, China Tower, and China Satcom, jointly launched the nationwide application of the National Emergency Communications Integrated Access Platform. Featuring the technical characteristic of "single base station, full network access," the platform can simultaneously connect users from all operators in disaster-stricken areas using a single emergency base station. Without needing to change their mobile terminals or SIM cards, the public can automatically connect to the "National Emergency Communications" network to restore basic communication services.

The platform was jointly developed under the guidance of the MIIT, focusing on the support needs for extreme scenarios of "road, power, and network outages," with the Emergency Communications Support Center uniting multiple industry forces. In the past, when disasters caused regional communication interruptions, each operator had to deploy its own emergency base stations, and cross-network roaming involved complex cooperation agreements and authentication processes, increasing the response delay for restoring emergency communications. The integrated access platform now deployed nationwide breaks this bottleneck at the technical architecture level: it uses a single emergency base station to achieve unified authentication and access for cross-operator users, bringing mobile phone users of different standards under the same "National Emergency Communications" network, truly realizing "one base station connecting all networks."

The platform underwent a full year of practical testing and verification before going live. Lu Meilin, Deputy Director of the Operation and Maintenance Division of the MIIT Emergency Communications Support Center, introduced that since May last year, the platform has been put into trial use during the flood season. Various equipment, including drone base stations and backpack base stations, were organized to connect to the integrated platform for emergency communication support, comprehensively verifying that the platform's functions, performance, and operational model met the design targets. During the trial period, the platform efficiently supported emergency communication support tasks for multiple sudden incidents, including mudslides in Qamdo, Tibet; floods in southeastern Guizhou; mountain torrents at the Gyirong Port in Tibet; heavy rainfall in Beijing; floods in Chengde, Hebei; and Typhoon Matmo, cumulatively serving over 1.041 million user accesses and over 92,000 calls.

Access standardization is another key technical point enabling the platform's unified national dispatch. The platform can achieve unified national access, monitoring, dispatch, and management for various types of emergency base stations, including drones, backpacks, vehicles, and ships. Once configured, emergency communication equipment can be activated and used anytime, anywhere across the country. This means that mobile base stations carried by grassroots emergency response teams no longer need to repeatedly configure parameters for network environments of different provinces and operators, significantly reducing the preparation time for cross-regional dispatch and ensuring that communication capabilities can be deployed immediately within the golden rescue window after a disaster.

At a more macro level of the emergency communication system, the platform represents a systematic integration of the nation's "air-space-ground" collaborative emergency response capabilities. China has established a three-dimensional emergency communication support network consisting of over 1,500 disaster-resistant super base stations, more than 300 emergency communication drones, multi-standard satellite communication systems including Tiantong and BeiDou, as well as 36 national first-tier and over 500 second-tier emergency communication support teams. The integrated access platform effectively provides a unified access standard and dispatch hub for these communication resources distributed across different spatial layers and managed by different units. The theme of this year's World Telecommunication and Information Society Day is "Digital Lifelines: Strengthening Resilience in a Connected World," and the core concept embodied by this platform—rebuilding connections where networks break and establishing channels between industry barriers—is an engineering interpretation of "resilience."

Zhao Houlin, Honorary Chairman of the China Institute of Communications, stated at the conference that digital resilience has become a core necessity for global development, with terrestrial networks, maritime communications, satellites, and low-altitude systems jointly building solid digital lifelines. MIIT Chief Engineer Zhong Zhihong emphasized that the "15th Five-Year Plan" has fully commenced, and the information and communication industry must continue to consolidate network foundations, effectively enhance people's well-being, and strengthen network and data security defenses. The nationwide application of the National Emergency Communications Integrated Access Platform allows people in disaster areas to automatically restore basic communication services such as calls, SMS, and mobile data after communication interruptions without changing their terminals, technically addressing a critical shortcoming in the "last mile" access link of China's emergency communication support system.

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