The International TD-SCDMA Summit 2003

The International TD-SCDMA Summit 2003 organized by TD-SCDMA forum held successfully from August 28, 2003 to August 29, 2003 in Beijing. Over 500 attendees from governmental departments , telecoms operators, telecoms vendors, international
standardization organizations, academic institutions, investment institutions attended the summit. Mr. Xu Guanhua Minister of Ministry Of Science And Technology; Mr.Lou Qinjian ,Vice Minister of Ministry of Information Industry;Mr.Zhang Xiaoqiang Secretary-General of National Development And Reform Commission; Mr.Zhu Gaofeng, President of CCSA and Mr.Zhao Houlin, Director of Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB) of the ITU attended the opening ceremony and addressed welcome speech.

The leaders from three governmental departments thought highly of the vapid development of TD-SCDMA in the last 2 years.
Minister Xu Guanhua of Ministry Of Science And Technology said: as for the Chinese telecommunication industry, TD-SCDMA has been one international standard, which give the Chinese telecommunication industry a new opportunity to achieve a whole breakthrough in the 3G area and make it possible for us to enter the rapid development phase in telecoms industry
Mr.Lou Qinjian,Vice Minister of Ministry of Information Industry, said the R&D and industrialization of TD-SCDMA have made significant progress, TD-SCDMA standard received more concern from all aspects and the R&D of TD-SCDMA system and terminal have achieved breakthrough. The industrialization of TD-SCDMA reached a new phase after the Mtnet test.
Mr.Zhang Xiaoqiang Secretary-General of National Development And Reform Commission, said TD-SCDMA has been the first international standard accepted by international standardization organizations put forward by China and the R&D and validation of TD-SCDMA key system have finished, which has significant meaning.

The leaders pointed out that the development of TD-SCDMA still faces challenges and has stiff road to go. But they expressed definitely that Chinese government will give steadfast support for TD-SCDMA all along and spare no efforts to push the industrialization of TD-SCDMA. They appealed more domestic and overseas vendors dedicated to enter this area unite asap, including the related governmental departments and academic institutions to push the healthy development of TD-SCDMA industry. We shall grasp the opportunity and communicate each other and put forward more stratagem and cooperation method to promote the development of TD-SCDMA more actively and firmly.

The summit seminars cover :Accelerate the industrialization process of TD-SCDMA; 3G Strategic deployment and Spectrum Planning; Prospect and IPR Protection Analysis in Communication Field in China. Some experts have communicated each other in the operational requirement and service applications of 3G, the formation of TD-SCDMA industry chain. The international standardization organizations, academic institutions, investment institutions (such as Deutsche Bank securities , Lehman Brother ,Yankee Group and BOC International) also analyzed and evaluated the perspective and investment value of TD-SCDMA.
Many vendors of R&D of TD-SCDMA system and terminal, such as: Siemens, Datang mobile ,T3G，COMMIT，Hua wei,Putian, Interdigital, RTX, Philips, Samsung，Panasonic，Nortel，CQUPT，Agilent have introduced their R&D status and announced their timetable of launching TD-SCDMA commercial system or terminals.

When TD-SCDMA is accelerated to achieve the industrialization , internationalization and commercialization, the whole TD-SCDMA industry exhibited in this summit and the summit will promote TD-SCDMA greatly.