On June 26, Gelonghui | The 2024 MWC Shanghai opened today, and Ke Ruiwen, Chairman of China Telecom, delivered a speech. He said that in recent years, China Telecom has transformed from a traditional telecommunications operator to a technology-based and security-based enterprise, determined four technology directions, and completed the layout of seven strategic emerging businesses. This includes expanding the depth and breadth of 5G coverage, becoming the first in the world to achieve direct connection between 5G phones and satellites, crossing the inflection point from national clouds to intelligent clouds, releasing a hundred billion parameter model, 5G quantum encrypted communication applications, 5G integration product systems, and more. He believes that artificial intelligence has become a key driving factor for 5G network innovation and application expansion, such as improving 5G network performance, network efficiency, energy consumption, and customer experience; AI will also greatly expand 5G application scenarios. Ke Ruiwen said that 5G is entering the second half of industry integration, application innovation, and value release. China Telecom will deepen 5G integration application innovation and promotion, comprehensively promote the deep integration of 5G + cloud + AI + application with traditional industries; at the same time, accelerate the intelligent upgrading of digital infrastructure and release the capabilities of 5G networks; accelerate the construction of a national integrated computing power internet; accelerate independent R&D of universal large models, continuously carry out bottom-level capability research and development of universal large models, and consolidate the foundation for the innovation of artificial intelligence technology and industrial development.