TD-SCDMA Evolution and LTE Summit hosted by the TD-SCDMA Forum and supported by China Mobile, China Communication Standardization Association (CCSA), TD-SCDMA Industry Association, 3GPP, and UMTS Forum, was held successfully at Shanghai International Convention Center from May 31 to June 1, 2008. This summit won the support of National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Science and Technology, and Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Over 300 representatives from TD-SCDMA Forum member enterprises, scientific research institutes, telecom operators, international standardization organizations and investors attended this conference.

This summit promotes the ideas of “opening, competition, cooperation, and gaining benefit with the whole world” by greatly boosting TD-SCDMA industrialization and market development and actively carrying out technical R&D work for TD-LTE to lay foundation for future development. In the opening ceremony, Mr. Zhou Huan, chairman of TD-SCDMA Forum, gave the welcome speech. Dr. Wang Jing, acting general secretary of TD-SCDMA Forum, presided the ceremony. Zhu Gaofeng, director general of China Communications Standards Association, Wu Hequan, vice president of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Feng Jichun, head of High-tech Development and Industrialization Division of Ministry of Science and Technology, Mr. Qi Chengyuan, inspector of High-tech Industrialization Division of National Development and Reform Commission, Zhang Xinsheng, former vice head of Science and Technology Division of Ministry of Information Industry, and Yao Shicheng, chief of Shanghai Communications Administration, attended the conference and gave speech to express warm congratulations on the successful opening of TD-SCDMA Evolution and LTE International Summit and accomplishments achieved on TD-SCDMA industrialization work and subsequent evolution technical standards. During this summit, Zhu Gaofeng, director general of China Communications Standards Association, stated that increasing national economic capacity by mastering core technologies that are independently developed and following the policies of technical standardization and standard industrialization in major industries has become a basic national strategy for many developing countries to become rich, and that historic opportunities brought by TD-SCDMA should not be missed in mobile telecommunication industry, a very special strategic field that relates to national strategic security and general industrial development, with the coming of the 3G mobile communication age. He also hoped that TD-SCDMA has brighter future of commercialization in China and in the whole world.

During the keynote speech session presided by Mr. Zhou Baoxin, general secretary of China Communications Standardization Association, lectures were given by some guests including Ms. Wang Xiaoyun, vice president of China Mobile Group Research Institute, Mr. Xie Yongbin, president of Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd., and Mr. Yang Hua, general secretary of TD-SCDMA Industrial Association with topics such as “Datang Mobile actively promotes current and future development of TD-SCDMA” and “development and evolution of the TD-SCDMA industry”. Many industry chain enterprises, including Xilinx, Nortel, Spreadtrum, Nokia-Siemens, Alcatel Shanghai Bell, T3G, Agilent, Rohde-Schwarz, Huawei, Potevio and Anritsu, also gave wonderful lectures and about how to face challenges posed by mobile broadband in the future and how to deploy schemes during operation.

In the interactive discussion session presided by Professor Chen Ruming, vice director of Communications Technology Committee of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, seven guests, including Mr. Yang Hua, general secretary of TD-SCDMA Industrial Association, Mr. Adrian Scrase from 3GPP, Mr. Asimakis Kokkos from Nokia-Siemens, Doctor Cao Qiang from Spreadtrum, Mr. Zhang Daijun from T3G, and Professor Zeng Xudong from Nortel, deeply discussed and exchange ideas about TD-SCDMA evolution as well as TD-LTE relation and strategies. According to these guests, on one hand, development of TD industry and market is the prerequisite for the success of TD-LTE. To achieve this, we must first help enterprises gain much product related experiences through market competition and continuously increase total capacity of the industry chain by boosting TD-SCDMA industrialization, completing product platforms and greatly promoting market applications of TD-SCDMA. On the other hand, TD-LTE also facilitates the sustainable development of TD-SCDMA industry and market. Establishment of TDD-LTE technology for further evolution helps create a clear blueprint for the future. The conference reached its climax during face-to-face conversations between guests and representatives from different enterprises.

This conference was the first large international summit held after the Announcement on Deepening the Reform of the Structure of the Telecommunications Sector was issued jointly by Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, National Development and Reform Commission and Ministry of Finance on May 24. Success of this conference also promises an gradually mature market for TD-SCDMA.
Doctor Wang Jing, general secretary of TD-SCDMA Forum, noted that TD-SCDMA Forum will perform the same functions as ever by making all efforts to promote existing TD-SCDMA industries and actively studying TD-SCDMA evolution technologies LTE (with focus on TD-LTE) to lay foundation for further development. The Forum will also answer the call of national government to accelerate large scale application of independent research results, guarantee continuous development of subsequent technologies, significantly increase idependent innovation capability, further improve telecom industry service capacity and level, and further reinforce regulatory system so that the public can fully benefit from results of telecom industry development and reform. He believed that as the deepening of telecom system reform in China, concrete industry chain basis will be provided for TD-SCDMA and its evolution technologies to serve 3G market in China as well as establishment and R&D of relevant TD-LTE.