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user experience. The Group selected transformation is a process of integrating several cases of digital transformation
Huawei as its strategic partner for digital IT and business teams and that rapid, practices in China’s electric power
transformation, using the Huawei Horizon step-by-step deployment, fast iteration, industry. In 2019, the Qinhai Green Energy
Digital Platform with cloud-network and technology agility will drive business Cloud Network Control Platform and Big
synergy. The platform integrated six ICT agility. In the future, 5G will drive significant Data Center supported the Qinhai Province
resources - IoT, big data, AI, video cloud, GIS, improvements in app capabilities that will of China for 15 consecutive days using
and ICP – to construct four comprehensive help bring banking services into the digital 100% clean energy. When applied to power
service systems: security, operations world, helping branches and account transmission and distribution services, AI
control, services, and management. The managers regain engage with retail and technology improved inspection efficiency,
single-view of airport operations has had corporate customers much more regularly. and increased the intelligent ability of
significant benefits, including increasing He cited China Merchants Bank as an equipment identification operations
flight punctuality to 87%, and intelligent example. The bank established a private by 90%. ICT is now supporting the
stand allocation that can complete within cloud and mobile platform, and opened host daily operations of the public charging
seconds, reducing the number of shuttle functions to manage devices and users, infrastructure, serving more than 500,000
bus passengers by 4 million annually. and control mobile network security. It also electric vehicles in China with a goal of
This makes Shenzhen Airport become built a big data platform with decoupled 6.18 million by the end of the year. Recently,
the world’s first organization to publish architecture and applied AI and machine the coronavirus outbreak has attracted
cases on the New Experience in Travel learning to the entire business chain to global attention. The Zhejiang, Jiangsu,
and Technologies (NEXTT) platform. enhance credit risk control. Furthermore, it and Sichuan subsidiaries of the State Grid
From a security point of view, the new deployed a financial transaction cloud and Corporation of China (SGCC) analyzed the
system provides more accurate and moved applications from the host to the power index of enterprise resumptions
intelligent control over terminal areas, cloud, enhancing customer experience and based on big data from the electricity grid.
airfields, public areas, and cargo areas. supporting continuous service innovation. This has helped provide local government
The facial recognition solution improves Liu Jianming, Director of the Expert authorities with an overview of the
security check efficiency by 60%, reduces Committee on “Smart Grid Technology resumption of local enterprise production.
the risk of passengers’ loss of ID card by and Equipment”, Industry Development We are honored to participate in this
taking it out for checking, and meets the Promotion Center, the Ministry of Industry astonishing era of intelligent development.
differentiated requirements of business and Information Technology (MIIT) of Huawei Enterprise Group’s “Platform +
passengers. In the future, the ‘app’ will China, believes that future power systems AI + Ecosystem” strategy focuses on
become an ecosystem that integrates will integrate digital technology extensively cooperation with ecosystem partners,
retail and corporate customers, and serve with traditional power. As digital governments and enterprises to build a
as a technology platform to bring banking technologies usage continues to expand solid foundation for the intelligent world
services into digital world. The traditional in the electric power field, future power with new types of connectivity, computing,
concept of banks’ digital transformation systems will evolve toward “universal platform, and ecosystem, and together
was only as a technology transformation connectivity, intelligent interaction, high delivering the promise of the intelligent
for replacing core application systems. flexibility, and solid security and control.” era.
However, he believes that real digital In his speech, Director Liu introduced

Huawei Ups Europe Play With 5G Factory

Huawei announced plans to build a wireless to showcase the wireless base station project, which is predicted to generate €1
communications product factory in France, production, software loading and testing billion-worth of products every year, will be
specialized in 4G and 5G equipment, as processes. The company stated it will leave among Huawei’s “first implementations of
part of a previously-reported move by the the doors open to the center in an effort to its advanced manufacturing technologies
vendor to boost its position in the European demonstrate “Huawei’s positive stance in Europe”. Huawei stated France was
market. The company said in a statement on Europe’s call for digital sovereignty”. It a suitable location for its new plant, as
it will invest more than €200 million to set offered assurances it will be able to “cover the country had “a mature industrial
up the plant, and expected the equipment every link along its value chain and drive infrastructure and a highly educated labor
produced to be used mainly in Europe. As local industries forward, both upstream pool, and its geographic positioning is
part of the construction plans, the factory and downstream”, including R&D, sales, ideal”.
will have a demonstration center designed procurement, production and logistics. The

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