In last week’s edition, we reported on the claim, by Finland’s University of Oulu, to have published the first 6G white paper. But Chinese researchers were never going to be far behind, and last week saw the China Mobile Research Institute (CMRI) holding a 6G workshop in Beijing. This is the first major 6G initiative in China, with 200 attendees from vendors, start-ups and Peking University. Speakers included China’s biggest AI start-up SenseTime, augmented reality company HiScene, virtual reality firm Dgene and smartphone supplier Xiaomi. Liu Guangyi, chief researcher at CMRI, said that while 5G would bring the Internet of everything, 6G would achieve convergence of the real and virtual worlds, with every real person and object having a proxy…