Distinguished
experts and scholars, Dear friends and colleges,
We are very happy to welcome you
all to attend GMC¡¯2004 in China. This happiness is not only
from the traditional Chinese hospitality, but rather from
the importance of the development of mobile
telecommunication to China and to the whole world.
Since China adopted digital
mobile telecommunication system in 1994, there have been
great changes in Chinese economic and social development.
Nowadays, with more than 300 million mobile subscribers,
China is no doubt a ¡°big¡± country of mobile
telecommunication in the world, and gives the world a huge
and ever growing market of mobile telecom. On the other
hand, China becomes a very active place of mobile
telecommunication research and developments. Not only many
world important companies like Nokia, Motorola, DoCoMo,
Siemens, Ericsson, Alcatel, Nortel, Samsung, Lucent, ¡ have
set up their R&D centers in China, but also the major
Chinese universities (like Tsinghua University, Southeast
University, University of Science and Technology of China,
Jiaotong Universities, etc.) and companies (like China
Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Da-Tang Telecom, Huawei
technology, Zhongxing Technology, etc.) have strongly
engaged into mobile telecommunication research and
developments. Chinese government has prioritized the
research on next generation of mobile telecommunication in
its High-tech Research and Development Program (shortly
called ¡°863¡± program to memorize its approval by Mr. Deng
Xiaoping in March, 1986).
Today, mobile telecom goes into
a very critical stage, a time of ¡°transition¡±. Such
challenges it faces as: increasing the system capacity but
in limited spectrum band, delivering high quality multimedia
information but at low cost, enhancing radio coverage but at
low power, merging into Internet but ensuring quality of
service, pervasive but with high security, ¡, etc. All of
these give essential drive to theoretical and technical
research, and so many new technologies arise: MIMO, UWB,
Mobile-IP, OFDM/MC, Space-time processing,
Software-Defined-Radio, etc. How to define the next
generation of mobile telecom? This question becomes more and
more urgent, for China and also for the whole world.
¡°Connecting people worldwide¡±
is the mission of telecommunication in the 21st
century, it does, in nature, require global efforts to
develop the technology for next generation. That is why we
are so happy to have you all gathering here in GMC¡¯2004,
that is why we sincerely wish the conference a great success
by our joint efforts.
Wish you enjoy the conference
and have a happy stay in China.
GONG Ke
Prof., Dr.
General Chair of GMC¡¯2004
Vice President of Chine
Institute of Communications (CIC)
Vice President of Tsinghua
University
