The article explains China's policy on the "six networks," defines the new generation communication network as a system‑wide, air‑space‑sea integrated infrastructure that goes beyond 6G, and shows how it interplays with compute networks, AI, and the emerging power grid in the national digital strategy.
The article highlights quantum internet as a transformative 21st‑century frontier and introduces QNET, an open‑source toolkit from Baidu’s Quantum Computing Research Institute that enables comprehensive protocol design, simulation—including a validated Micius satellite QKD experiment—and hardware integration, aiming to lower experimental costs and accelerate quantum network development.
The article details China’s 2020 breakthrough with the 76‑photon quantum computer “Jiuzhang,” which solved Gaussian boson sampling in 200 seconds, surpassing classical supercomputers, discusses the significance of quantum supremacy, ongoing national quantum communication projects, and future challenges toward practical quantum computing.
This weekly roundup highlights MariaDB’s new R2DBC connector for Java, China’s 4600‑km quantum communication network, JD’s 16 AAAI‑2021 papers, Intel’s RealSense ID facial recognition, JupyterLab 3.0 release, JD’s Smart Community 2.0, the OpenViDial multimodal dialogue dataset, and the FixMatch semi‑supervised learning breakthrough.
The article explains the concepts of quantum entanglement and quantum communication using a series of intuitive analogies—from dice and fruit to magic coins, playing cards, and mysterious gemstones—to make these advanced quantum ideas accessible to non‑specialists.
Alibaba Cloud and the Chinese Academy of Sciences unveiled a quantum encryption communication service on a public cloud, establishing Quantum Portals for inter‑city data‑center networking and offering unconditionally secure data transmission, marking a milestone for both quantum research and cloud computing.
