Three major service providers in China have announced plans to bring 5G technology to the market. The new network is so fast that users reportedly can download a high-definition movie in just one second. But 5G is so much more than faster web browsing, as Yang Chengxi reports.

It takes about 300 milliseconds for a human to blink, but only one millisecond for 5G signals to travel between terminals.

XU ZHIPENG, LAB SQUAD GROUP LEADER NOKIA SHANGHAI BELL "5G provides 10 to 100 times faster speed, bandwidth than 4G."

Telecommunications companies like Nokia Shanghai Bell have been investing heavily in the research and development of 5G equipment. The company said the technology itself is ready, and it is working with major service providers in China, who want to make 5G commercially available by 2020.

YANG CHENGXI SHANGHAI I am now in a 5G equipment room. The machines here are connected to a super high resolution Virtual Reality camera. Each of the eight lenses here sends 4K signals to a receiver 600 meters away. The live image you're seeing is enabled by a transmission speed of 2 gigabytes per second.

The speed of 5G promises so much more than faster mobile internet. It benefits driverless cars, robot-powered manufacturing anything that needs to receive command controls from afar. Experts say it should enable doctors to perform operations on patients remotely with robot arms.

XU ZHIPENG, LAB SQUAD GROUP LEADER NOKIA SHANGHAI BELL "Many operators already have the plan to deploy their 5G. Meanwhile, many end customers, that means some logistics companies are looking for 5G solutions."

One major logistics applications of 5G is at container ports, says ZPMC, China's largest port equipment provider.

MA JIN, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR ZPMC SMART SOLUTIONS GROUP "The biggest bottleneck for traditional ports in embracing information technology is actually internet capacity."

ZPMC produces driverless cranes as well as transport vehicles for China's most advanced port area: phase four of Shanghai's Yangshan port. Reducing internet delay is absolutely crucial for the operators sitting 1 kilometer away from the equipment. Every millisecond counts.

MA JIN, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR ZPMC SMART SOLUTIONS GROUP "So how much would delays affect our remote operators? Right now our video delay is 250 milliseconds. This may seem like just a fraction of a second, but fast-moving cranes would have moved about two meters. So our operators are monitoring images that are two meters away from what's really happening. In the future we want this delay minimized."

Precision remote control is one of the hallmarks of China's smart port vision, and experts say that the power of 5G will be a crucial component to realize that future. YCX, CGTN, SHANGHAI.