---
title: "China Set to Launch the World’s First Quantum Communication Network"
description: "This marks a world milestone in the development of quantum technology, and identifies China as one of the world leaders in the field."
date: "2017-07-16"
modified: "2017-07-16"
authors:
  - name: "Abby Norman"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/abby"
url: "https://futurism.com/china-set-to-launch-the-worlds-first-quantum-communication-network"
categories:
  - "Future Society"
tags:
  - "china"
  - "computing"
  - "jinan"
  - "quantum"
---

# China Set to Launch the World’s First Quantum Communication Network

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By the end of August, China plans to rollout the Jinan Project — the world's first *unhackable* computer network, which is based on quantum principles. The project uses the city of Jinan as a quantum computer hub that boosts the Beijing-Shanghai quantum network due to its central geographical position between the two larger cities.

Specifically, the network alerts both users to any tampering with the system — as tampering alters the information being relayed. The disturbance is instantly recognizable and both parties can immediately identify when something is amiss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISW-UjWqBWA&feature=youtu.be

Zhou Fei, Assistant Director of the Jinan Institute of Quantum Technology, sees the system having worldwide ramifications. He [told the Financial Times](<https://www.ft.com/content/899458ca-655c-11e7-8526-7b38dcaef614?mhq5j=e2>) that "We plan to use the network for national defense, finance and other fields, and hope to spread it out as a pilot that if successful, can be used across China and the whole world."

By implementing the quantum computer network, China will become the first country to implement quantum technology for a real life, commercial end. It also marks China as a quantum leader worldwide — a status that is reinforced by their development of the Heifei machine, which could eclipse all current supercomputers, as well as their [successful transportation of a photon](<https://futurism.com/scientists-just-teleported-a-photon-from-earth-to-orbit-for-the-first-time>) from a satellite in space using quantum physics.