5G initiative to boost industrial internet reach

China's intensified efforts to commercialize the fifth-generation mobile communication technology will lay a sound foundation for the development of industrial internet in the country, experts said on Friday.

The comments came as China unveiled specific technical standards for non-standalone 5G network tests on the same day, part of its broader efforts to get precommercial 5G products ready by the end of this year.

Zhang Yong, president of network technology research institute at China Unicom, the country's second largest mobile telecom carrier, said 5G, which will be at least 10 times faster than 4G and feature a huge capacity to connect thousands of items online, will fuel the application of industrial internet.