5G licenses may come 'in time'

China will roll out policies to accelerate the commercialization of 5G, with radio-frequency plans and licenses for the fifth-generation mobile communication technology coming out "in time", the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said on Thursday.

Chen Zhaoxiong, vice-minister of industry and information technology, said more efforts would be made to promote the maturity of 5G technologies and create a complete industrial chain, in the hope of laying a sound foundation for comprehensive commercial use of the superfast technology.

"We will unveil a radio-frequency spectrum map and grant licenses to telecom carriers in time, so as to meet the demand for 5G network construction and increasing efforts to widen applications," Chen said.