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Huawei Builds a Solid Foundation for the Intelligent World 2030

Huawei held its global Industrial Digital distribution of education, healthcare, enabling customers to focus on their own
Transformation Conference. It was held and other public resources, achieving unique advantages and service innovation,
via live streaming connecting guests digital equality; therefore playing a key role in enabling
from across the world including UK, 4. from a cultural point of view, citizens the digital transformation of industries.
Switzerland, USA, Germany and Italy will be freed from heavy physical labor Based on enterprise business Strategy,
with the theme “Hi, Intelligent World”. and tedious repetitive work, and their Architecture, Policy, and Operations
The conference previewed five trends focus will naturally shift from material (SAPO), the new ecosystem that provides
of an intelligent world 10 years’ from value to mental value; and a single field of expertise allied to multiple
now and proposed a foundation built on 5. from an environmental point of view, skills and is deeply integrated, can
new types of connectivity, computing, the deployment of various digital offer a more comprehensive customer-
platform, and ecosystem. This will enable technologies, we help us monitor oriented business solutions.” The
the intelligent development of a wide and control carbon emissions more intelligent world of 2030 cannot exist
variety of industries, including urban effectively and, as a result, help protect without the digital transformation of
development, manufacturing, energy, the earth. industries across the spectrum. Huawei
finance, transportation, and so on. The Ma Yue, Vice President of Huawei has accumulated extensive experience in
ASEAN Economic Community, Shenzhen Enterprise Business Group, commented: helping industries such as government,
Airport Group, and other customers also “The next decade will witness rapid transportation, finance, and electric
shared their insights and experiences development of new ICT. Huawei believes power achieve digital transformation for
in digital transformation. In the future, new types of connectivity, computing, the present and the future, through new
information flows with new ICT, such as 5G, platform, and ecosystem will build a solid connectivity, computing, platform, and
AI, and IoT, will help us build the foundation foundation for the intelligent world of ecosystem. Currently, more than 700
from which everything originates. Simply 2030. Ultra-broadband and high-speed cities worldwide and 228 of the Fortune
put, the world of 2030 will be intelligent. networking built using 5G, Wi-Fi 6, and Global 500 companies, including 58 of
Standing at the start of a new decade, quantum communications will bridge the Fortune Global 100 companies, have
Huawei believes the intelligent world 2030 the physical and digital worlds, laying a selected Huawei as their partner for digital
will have five features: foundation for the intelligent world.” Mr. transformation. Dr. Aladdin D. Rillo, Deputy
1. at a governmental level, people-oriented Ma continued: “New computing will offer a Secretary-General for ASEAN Economic
digital governments will be built to full-stack, all-scenario solution that covers Community commented: “ASEAN’s digital
adapt to people’s livelihoods better; bottom-layer chips, all the way to upper- economy soared to USD 100 billion for
2. at an economic level, intelligent robots layer algorithms, spanning consumers first time in 2019, and is expected to
will make up a critical part of a future to business and which constitutes the grow to over USD 300 billion by 2025. For
labor force; core of intelligent transformation. The governments, business and society, digital
3. at a social level, digital technology will converged, shared, and digital platform transformation is no longer an option but an
help equalize the sharing and proper features high efficiency and openness, imperative path to empower the economy
and businesses. To further promote digital
transformation in ASEAN, new initiatives
are currently being pursued such as the
development of 5G ecosystem, framework
on international mobile roaming, smart
manufacturing, and an ASEAN innovation
network. But to be successful, we also
need the support of the private sector and
market players like Huawei particularly in
building an innovation friendly ecosystem
and addressing issues related to big idea
and data privacy.” Zhang Lixuan, GM of
Digitalization, Shenzhen Airport Group
(SAG), talked about how the group delivered
digital transformation and constructed a
smart airport. The digital transformation
of an airport is a complex project but with
its vision of “One Airport, One Dream”, SAG
created a systematic approach to building
a fully-digital airport with outstanding

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