1 . Take a look at your parents’ mobile phone. Can you see a small “5G” at the top? Do you know what is it? 5G means “5th generation mobile network (第五代移动通信技术)”.

Each mobile network generation is faster and more powerful (有力的) than the one before it. In 1980s, with 1G, we made phone calls for the first time. Around ten years later, 2G let us send messages. Then in 2000s, using the Internet, listening to music and sending emails appeared in people’s life for 3G. Later, we could watch films and even buy things in 2010s with 4G. To our surprise, 5G is coming now. What’s special about 5G?

Do you have online classes at home? With 5G, you can have classes outside your home. The class can go as well as the ones you have at home. Students from poor areas (地区) can have the chance to study just like you do.

In some movies, you might see cars that can drive by themselves—you tell them where you want to go, and they take you there as fast as possible. With 5G, cars like this may appear in our life. It makes self-driving cars safer. These cars can send messages to each other. They can also “talk” to traffic lights. 5G will make cars move even faster than human drivers.

5G networks are about 100 times faster than 4G. This means you can download (下载) a movie in seconds using 5G, and makes your video calls clearer. What’s more, VR games will become more popular with 5G. It will make the games feel even more real.

All in all, 5G will change the way people live and make our life more comfortable and convenient (方便的) than ever before. You won’t have to wait too long to enjoy it. Now you can buy a new mobile phone to use 5G networks. 5G phone cost 8,000 yuan right now. But experts say that about one and a half years later, the price could go down to around 2,000 yuan. Why not try 5G?

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2 . Take a look at your parents’ mobile phones. Can you see a small “5G” at the top? Do you know what it is? 5G means “5th generation mobile network (第五代移动通信技术)”.

Each mobile network generation is faster and more powerful than the one before it. In 1980s, with 1G, we made phone calls for the first time. Around ten years later, 2G let us send messages. Then in 2000s, using the Internet, listening to music and sending emails appeared in people’s life for 3G. Later, we could watch films and even buy things in 2010s with 4G. To our surprise, 5G is coming now.

Do you have online classes at home? With 5G, you can have classes outside your home. The class can go as well as the ones you have at home. Students from poor areas can have the chance to study just like you do.

In some movies, you might see cars that can drive by themselves—you tell them where you want to go, and they take you there as fast as possible. With 5G, cars like this may appear in our life. It makes self-driving cars safer. These cars can send messages to each other. They can also “talk” to traffic lights. 5G will make cars move even faster than human drivers.

5G networks are about 100 times faster than 4G. This means you can download (下载) a movie in seconds using 5G, and makes your video calls clearer. What’s more, VR games will become more popular with 5G. It will make the games feel even more real.

All in all, 5G will change the way people live and make our life more comfortable and convenient than ever before. You won’t have to wait too long to enjoy it. Now you can buy a new mobile phone to use 5G networks. 5G phones cost about 8,000 yuan right now. But experts say that about one and a half years later, the price could go down to around 2000 yuan. Why not try 5G?

3 . When visitors to the Palace Museum feel a need to sit down for a cup of tea or find a bathroom without a long line, they soon will be able to turn to their smart phones for the information they need.

Thanks to an agreement signed on Friday by the museum and Huawei, this modern solution will use 5G technology to build a “smart network”. Under the agreement, 5G Wi-Fi signals will cover the Palace Museum, China’s royal palace from 1420 to 1911.

“It’s important to always stay close to the latest technology to better serve the public,” said Shan Jixiang, former director of the Palace Museum. Shan said there is still much room for improvement in dealing with a large number of cultural relies(纪念物), such as when the priceless painting “Along the River During the Qingming Festival” is exhibited(展览) again in the future. When it was last exhibited in 2015, visitors stood in long lines until 3 am to have a look. The museum ended up preparing fast food to serve the hungry visitors. “I don’t want that situation to happen again,” Shan said. “Our work can be done in a more scientific way.”

The new system will also make use of the closed-cameras that are set up all over the Palace Museum to protect the museum’s valuable relics. More than 1.86 million of them are stored at the museum, which recorded nearly 20 million visits from the public last year. “How can we make sure no single visitor who might have bad ideas endangers these treasures?” Shan said. “After using the Internet of things, we can notice any movement about the relics at once to prevent such danger.”

The 5G network also will be used to improve tele-meeting through webcams, in which scholars will discuss together to find the best answers to repair and store issues.

5 . There is much heated discussion today about 5G. Your Internet experience is not pleasant when the net speed is too slow — it takes so long to open a web page and the talk show you’re watching stops every few minutes. But soon it could be a thing of the past. On June 3, 2020, the Chinese government announced (宣布) that 5G services would be provided around the country.

5G is the 5th generation network. It is a new network after 1G, 2G, 3G and 4G and it can connect everyone and everything together. 5G speed can be very fast. In the near future, 5G network will cover many cities in China.

5G will make self-driving cars possible. For safety, self-driving cars need super-fast data transmission (传输) to communicate with their nearby environment. 5G is just what makes self-driving cars achieve this. Even airplanes will become “smart” in the near future. Passengers will be able to use 5G networks in the air to connect to the Internet or order food and drinks.

5G will be a big help for students who take online classes. In the world, many people live in poor areas where there are no schools. But with 5G, this will change. Students all over the world will be able to see places like the Great Wall without leaving their rooms.

In addition, 5G will be used in hospitals. It will be easier for doctors to care for patients who live far away by 5G.

However, 5G has its own weaknesses. According to China National Radio, though 5G will make our lives easier, it will not be perfect. For one thing, 5G will not “travel” far. On 4G networks, you can be 10 kilometers away from the nearest transmission centre and connect the Internet easily. But 5G will only cover about 300 meters. And in order to use 5G, we will have to buy new products specifically designed for 5G that are expensive at present.

6 . Shanghai Begins 5G Trials

Look at the top of your phone. You’ll probably see a 3G or 4G symbol. The G stands for the generation of your mobile network. Now, the age of 5G is coming.

On March 30, Shanghai vice-mayor Wu Qing made the first 5G video call on a Huawei Mate X smart phone. CGTN reported Shanghai has also become the first city in China to start testing 5G networks.

5G is about 100 times faster than 4G. It will bring faster mobile Internet, but people can also use it for many other things, such as self-driving cars. There is a big area of discussion about self-driving cars, which we’ve all seen a lot of news about, but we haven’t seen a lot of real cars driving themselves on the streets because it is not safe enough. However, 5G is so much faster, it could allow cars to talk to each other in time, so they can know clearly when other cars are switching lanes, going off the road, passing another car, going too fast and so on. This will help avoid accidents. So probably there will be more self-driving cars in the near future with the help of 5G.