Prof. Ping Zhang is an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow, Professor with Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Ph.D. supervisor, the director of State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Journal on Communications. He is a member of IMT-2020 (5G) Experts Panel, a member of Experts Panel for China’s 6G development, and has received many awards and honors including the Grand Prize for the National Science and Technology Progress Award. He is one of the most well-known key contributors to the development of China-pioneered mobile communication technologies, which have been widely adopted on a global scale. His research interests include next-generation mobile networks, semantic communications, and intellicise communication system.