At the recently concluded 2025 Mobile World Congress (MWC), we seem to have found the answer to the development direction of the future communication industry: The winners in the future will no longer simply compete in technology, but rather, it will be about who can become the "connector" between users and the digital world, who can enable more ordinary people to participate in the construction of digital civilization, and whoever grasps this will hold the ticket for the next decade.
When countless exhibitors showcased their best technologies and capabilities at MWC 2025, the China Mobile exhibition area, designed with the "Silk Road" as its soul, integrated technology with tradition, demonstrating cultural confidence. It also conveyed an important signal: Communication technology is shifting from a "speed improvement competition" to "reconstructing social collaboration methods", and users will thus experience a significant transition from being "beneficiaries of functions" to "co-builders of the digital ecosystem".
In the era of general artificial intelligence, the development of AI is moving from "technology provision" to "ecological co-construction". Among them, large language models have become the core engine of intelligence, and intelligent agents based on large language models have become the "universal interface" in the digital world. In this process, users are no longer just "technology users"; instead, through continuous interaction with AI, they become the "co-builders" who drive the evolution of AI.
In response to this trend, China Mobile, positioning itself as a "provider, aggregator, and operator", has built the Jiutian AI infrastructure, which is the core of its efforts to establish an independent AI ecosystem. As an important part of this ecosystem, the terminal intelligent agent fully leverages the advantages of edge-side intelligence, achieving in-depth system-level interaction and redefining the human-machine interaction model. At the exhibition site in Barcelona, visitors experienced an extremely smooth human-machine interaction through the terminal intelligent agent. With the "Lingxi" intelligent agent, a simple voice command can arrange schedules, plan trips, and even convert voice into text in real-time for the hearing-impaired.
More importantly, every interaction between users and AI (such as asking questions in dialects or expressing personalized needs) will serve as "nutrients" for optimizing the AI model, forming a closed loop of "user feedback - model optimization - experience upgrade". This collaborative paradigm makes users the "data fuel" for the evolution of AI capabilities, and at the same time, users benefit from the precise services, realizing the co-construction and sharing of the ecosystem.
AI applications are not limited to personal life scenarios; they are also booming in the industrial field. Currently, China Mobile has deployed industry large language models in more than 40 sub-sectors across four major areas, namely social governance, industrial production, people's livelihood services, and communication characteristics. It has successfully created nearly a thousand digital and intelligent projects, widely covering multiple sub-industries such as government affairs, healthcare, and manufacturing.
As He Biao, General Manager of China Mobile, said: The new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, characterized by digital intelligence, is advancing deeply. AI technology is accelerating its breakthrough and application, evolving from an auxiliary tool that empowers thousands of industries to improve quality and efficiency to an infrastructure and core capability that comprehensively enables the transformation and development of the economy and society. The era of "AI+" is accelerating its arrival.
Communication is no longer just about "fast network speed". China Mobile is using "5G-A (5G Advanced)" technology to make the network smarter, more user-aware, and more enterprise-friendly. By reshaping the communication architecture, it promotes collaborative upgrades to support the industrial Internet, ensures the coordination of equipment in smart factories, and drives the intelligent transformation of the manufacturing industry.
A certain automobile factory uses the 5G-A network to achieve the "dynamic reorganization" of robot clusters. The production line can be automatically adjusted according to order demands. For example, when there is a surge in orders, the robots can quickly switch tasks, shifting from welding to assembly, increasing efficiency by 30%. Workers only need to input requirements through a tablet, and the system will automatically generate the collaboration logic - users are not only the users of the technology but also the "makers" of the rules.
A certain garment factory has introduced AI quality inspection. Through the combination of a 5G private network and AI algorithms, it can detect fabric defects 24 hours a day. In the past, manual quality inspection required 10 people to work in shifts, but now only 1 person is needed to monitor the system, increasing efficiency by 90%.
In addition, China Mobile's integration of computing and networking breaks the traditional boundaries and improves the efficiency of resource allocation and decision-making in scenarios such as emergency command in smart cities. What people feel most deeply is that in the emergency command scenario of smart cities, by dynamically sensing user needs (such as traffic flow and the location of emergencies), it promotes the computing and networking capabilities to improve urban traffic congestion.
At the MWC 2025 site, China Mobile optimizes family life collaboration through technology, making it a reality for users to take the lead in the family digital ecosystem. "China Mobile Family" unfolds new scenarios of an intelligent and enjoyable family life for us.
The home security camera of China Mobile can automatically detect the falling action of the elderly at home and send an alarm. The intelligent health bracelet of China Mobile's health care service can monitor the heart rate in real-time, allowing children away from home to always keep an eye on their parents. Moreover, for families with children and pets, the home security service also provides considerate features. Intelligent functions such as crying soothing and pet expulsion make home security more reassuring and worry-free.
China Mobile's HD services inject new vitality into family entertainment. It offers a vast library of content resources. At the same time, with features such as voice interaction, intelligent Q&A, and personalized recommendations, users can simply give voice commands to retrieve the desired entertainment resources from the rich libraries of movies, TV shows, music, and more, meeting the multi-scenario and diversified interactive entertainment needs of family users and making family entertainment simpler and more wonderful.
Behind these scenarios is the transformation of users from "passively receiving services" to "actively designing the ecosystem". When China Mobile returns the next key point of communication technology development to users, it is obvious that China Mobile's ambition is not only to lead in technology but also to enable ordinary people to have the power to "set the rules" in the digital age.
As can be seen from the demonstrations at MWC 2025, its core logic is "technology + user co-creation": using AI and 5G-A to build the foundation, converting user needs into driving forces for evolution, and ultimately enabling everyone to participate in the construction of the digital ecosystem. This "Chinese-style innovation" may well be the answer for the future global communication industry.
