China Unveils 6G-enabled Solutions, Paving Way for 2030 Commercial Launch

In a laboratory at the Yangtze River Delta AI-EDGE Joint Innovation Center, a researcher moves and leaps quickly, with an embodied intelligent robot beside him mimicking the same actions almost simultaneously. This scene, displayed by Wu Jianjun, Chairman of Zijin Xingyu (Nanjing) Technology Co., Ltd., at a recent launch event co-hosted by Zijin Xingyu and Purple Mountain Laboratory, outlines the prototype of 6G technology applications.

"The core challenge in the development of embodied intelligent robots lies in the real-time transmission of massive environmental perception data, online large-model reasoning, and high-speed human-machine collaborative interaction," Wu said. "Our self-built 6G integrated communication, sensing and intelligent computing private network, with unique advantages of large bandwidth, low latency and inherent edge computing, can stably support the transmission of 4K and 8K environmental perception data between humans and machines, as well as the real-time operation of robot edge-end collaborative AI large models."

The "space-air-ground" series of products and solutions released on the same day, centered on integrated communication, sensing and intelligent computing technology, focus on industrial and industry private network scenarios, low-altitude economy scenarios and space scenarios, aiming to provide stable, fast and efficient information technology support for integrated communication, sensing and intelligent computing.

You Xiaohu, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Director of Purple Mountain Laboratory, stated at the launch event: "These solutions are an important step for 6G technology to move towards industrial implementation. 6G should advance through exploration, practice and improvement, with early trial and error and precise matching of industry needs. The development of 6G requires collaboration between government, enterprises and research institutions to break through more core technological bottlenecks."

CCTV reported that China has completed the first phase of 6G technology trials, forming more than 300 key technological reserves, and fully launched the second phase of trials earlier this year. China Academy of Information and Communications Technology research shows that China’s 6G is in a critical stage with clear vision and demand definition, initial technological breakthroughs and full-scale standard research, with commercial application expected to start around 2030 and large-scale commercial deployment expected by 2035.

You Xiaohu emphasized that before the official commercialization of 6G, it is necessary to go through the process of technological engineering and productization. The "spillover effects" of some key core technologies can not only test the feasibility of existing technologies and promote technological iteration, but also solve technical problems in fields such as industrial internet and digital economy.

To verify technological maturity, Zijin Xingyu has conducted various engineering tests. At the end of 2025, the team built a special communication link between Beijing and Nanjing, enabling researchers in Beijing to drive a wireless holographic digital human in Nanjing through high-definition video streaming and achieve interaction. A 1.3-kilometer low-altitude verification test site was also built near Purple Mountain Laboratory’s 6G Concept Verification Center to test 6G’s performance in integrated communication and sensing, low latency and flexible network signal deployment.

Wu noted that the released products have broken through WiFi reliability bottlenecks in industrial scenarios, reduced airspace supervision blind spots in low-altitude scenarios, and lowered cost thresholds in satellite communication. These technologies have shown promising prospects in previous industry pilot applications, empowering railways, mines, ports, energy, drones and low-altitude logistics.