China will release its digital TV industrial policy next year, revealed Guo Ke, president of the Digital TV Industry Alliance of China.

The digital TV standardization will exert no vital impact on the present industrial development. On the contrary, the industrial policy and commercial pattern will have more impacts, said Guo Ke at the summit of the research and development institutions of China's information industry held recently.

He said China's digital TV industry is at the end of the industrial chain with strong processing capacity. The design capacity for the medium- and low-end products is ranked in the forefront with fine sales channels, brands and management as well as strong market control ability. But it is in want of core technology.

Guo Ke believes that there is short of technical accumulation and talents for China's digital TV sector. In the future, the cutting-in point for the industrial development should not be core technology, but the making use of domestic and foreign technologies. And the alliance of enterprises should be established to solve key technical problems.

It is learned that at the present, the ground wireless transmission standard for digital TV technology has not been fixed. The relevant system standards for the transmitting and receiving terminals have come out. The products' standards will make debut before the coming Spring Festival.

China will start digital satellite broadcasting in 2006 to satisfy the requirement of two thirds of households without cable TV connections, according to the timetable set by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT). China will popularize digital television terrestrial broadcasting during the period of the "11th Five-Year Plan (2006-2010)". By 2010, all the cities at county level across the country will basically accomplish the digitalized transition, realizing digital broadcast television. And the present analogue television broadcast will be phased out completely by 2015.

By People's Daily Online