network, US and Chinese film executives at the Chinese American Film and TV Festival’s co-production summit discussed its impact on the entertainment world.data plans available to consumers last Friday, a key step in Beijing’s push to becoming a global superpower capable of technologically rivaling the U.S.
China’s 5G rollout was originally planned for next year, but was bumped up due to trade tensions with the U.S. Chinese tech firmis the supplier of much of the equipment making China’s network possible, although it has been blacklisted in the U.S., where critics consider the company a risk to national security.
China is also at the head of the pack when it comes to 8K filmmaking, Shanghai Media Group board of supervisors chairman Teng Junjie pointed out. The country just completed its first feature-length 8K film, he said, noting that other countries such as Japan and the U.S. may have the means to play such works but not yet any feature-length content. “The 5G and 8K era has already arrived,” he said.