The advanced training on spectrum monitoring of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is launched in Beijing on August 4-12.

The training is jointly held by ITU and the State Radio Monitoring Center (SRMC) / the State Radio Spectrum Management Center (SRSMC). It is open to the radio regulators worldwide and the technicians from radio regulators at all levels in China and covers topics including the basic introduction to spectrum monitoring, the capacity and development trend of radio monitoring, the management of radio transmitting equipment and the spectrum monitoring and operations in actual tests under different environment. The instruction is given by experts from ITU and SRMC in English language.

On August 4, the programme officer of the Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) in ITU Aamir Riaz, the deputy director general of the Bureau of Radio Regulation under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) Kan Runtian, the deputy director general of the Department of International Cooperation of MIIT Zhao Yonghong and SRMC Director Liu Yan attended and delivered speeches at the opening ceremony.

The deputy director and chief engineer of SRMC Li Jingchun presided over the opening ceremony for the training.

24 people from 14 countries including Brunei, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and 18 people from China participate in the training.

Liu Yan expressed his warm welcome to trainees on behalf of SRMC. He said that this is the first face to face training since SRMC was accredited as an ITU Center of Excellence (CoE) in the Asia-Pacific region during 2015-2018. SRMC will provide colleagues from different countries with training on technology and services related to radio management, and share the experience and technology of China in spectrum regulation and radio monitoring. Additionally, SRMC spared no effort in its preparation in teaching programs, lecturers, teaching material, training venue and accommodation and so on to ensure a smooth training, with their hopes that colleagues from different countries could improve business abilities and promote mutual understanding via the training and communication.

Kan Runtian said in his speech that as the important carrier to disseminate information, radio frequency is an essential support to build the new generation of fundamental information network and gain access to the last kilometer of internet of all things. The demand for the radio spectrum resource will increasingly grow in the future, so all radio administrations are facing an important task to coordinate the demand of all sectors for spectrum, use the resources in a sustainable way and manage them more specifically. He also expressed his hope that everybody could exchange information, share experience, learn from each other and strengthen the cooperation through the training, and thus contribute to the technical and industrial development in this region.

Zhao Yonghong said that as a member of ITU China is an active participator in activities of ITU and attaches great attention to the cooperation with ITU in developing competence. She added that she hoped this training course will create an opportunity not only for all participants to exchange views and discuss issues of technical development and operations in spectrum monitoring, but also to enhance the friendly cooperation between China and countries in fields of spectrum management and ICT, and therefore contributing to the development of ICT in developing countries.

Aamir Riaz said that the 21st century is a new era of revolution in information and communications technology (ICT). The development of ICT primarily hinges on the radio spectrum. ITU is committed to working with regulators of all the countries in areas including spectrum economy, spectrum re-farming and monitoring and interference reduction. And China is the country to which ITU attaches great importance in the Asia-Pacific region. In recent years, SRMC (also SRSMC) has contributed a number of significant manuscripts to ITU such as manuals, recommendations and reports on spectrum management and monitoring and accumulated a lot of excellent experience in radio spectrum regulation and monitoring. He believed that SRMC could transmit them to the colleagues in the training, contributing the development of ICT.

For a long time SRMC / SRSMC has provided technical support in spectrum management under the guidance of MIIT, such as bilateral and multilateral frequency coordination, frequency division, frequency assignment, the use of space orbit resources, spectrum engineering, radio monitoring, radio transmitting equipment testing and gained rich experience in spectrum management and international activities. In recent years, the center has held several international exchanges and trainings. From 2005 to 2007, the center worked with ITU regional office for Asia-Pacific region and held three successive training courses concerning radio monitoring and spectrum management. By 2010, the center had invited experts from ITU and run technical trainings three times. In 2005 and 2012, it held two International Space Radio Monitoring Technical Exchange Meetings. And in June, 2015, it launched an online training on the registration procedures and international rules of satellite networks in the Asia-Pacific region.

(Translating and editing by Ingrid Sun)