China Unicom Partnership Conference 2025 was grandly held in Shanghai from July 18 to 19, with "Practical Service for All to Co-create a New Converged Ecosystem" as its theme. China Unicom's global industry-university-research-application partners gathered in Shanghai to jointly discuss digital intelligence innovation and advance the integration of digital and real economies. AsiaInfo Technologies participated comprehensively in the conference under the theme "Network-Data-Intelligence-Security Integration to Co-create a Digital Intelligence Future". During the conference, AsiaInfo Technologies and China Unicom signed a comprehensive strategic partnership agreement. Multiple senior executives were invited to attend the forum events, while AsiaInfo Technologies showcased its industry scenarios-tailored software/hardware products, solutions and practices. Chen Zhongyue (Chairman and Party Group Secretary of China Unicom), Jian Qin (Director, General Manager and Deputy Party Group Secretary of China Unicom) alongside Wang Limin and Miao Shouye (Deputy General Manager of China Unicom) visited AsiaInfo Technologies' booth for technical exchange.
Figure: Chen Zhongyue visits AsiaInfo Technologies' booth
Figure: Jian Qin visits AsiaInfo Technologies' booth
Figure: Wang Limin and Miao Shouye visit AsiaInfo Technologies' booth
01 Forging Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, and Synergizing Network-Data-Intelligence-Security Convergence to Co-create a Digital Intelligence Future
On the morning of July 19, the main forum of the conference convened grandly, with the attendees including Chen Jie (Member of the Standing Committee of Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Deputy Mayor), Ning Guang (Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering), Chen Zhongyue (Chairman of China Unicom), Jian Qin (General Manager of China Unicom) alongside government officials, academicians from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, scholars from world's leading universities and research institutions, as well as industry chain partners, investors and news media representatives. Chen Zhongyue (Chairman of China Unicom) delivered a keynote speech titled "Innovation Together to Co-create a New Era of Intelligence", announcing China Unicom's strategic AI initiatives and innovation achievements.
At the main forum, AsiaInfo Technologies and China Unicom signed a comprehensive strategic partnership agreement. Jian Qin (General Manager and Deputy Party Group Secretary of China Unicom) and Gao Nianshu (Executive Director and CEO of AsiaInfo Technologies) represented both parties to sign the agreement. According to the agreement, both parties will deepen partnership across core domains including "Strengthening ecosystem partnership for joint expansion by government and enterprise, converging technological innovations to enhance enterprise's digital intelligence capabilities, and co-building digital intelligence security to deliver integrated solutions", jointly pioneer innovative pathways for converging digital technologies with the real economy by integrating their respective strengths in technology R & D, resource channels and industry expertise, provide more competitive solutions for various industries' digital upgrading, and advance high-quality development of the digital economy.
AsiaInfo Technologies will make more proactive contributions to China Unicom's new converged ecosystem, and pursue more effective explorations in international market expansion and segmented product innovation.
Figure: Jian Qin and Gao Nianshu signs the agreement on the site
02 AsiaInfo Technologies + China Unicom: Comprehensive Partnership Empowering Technological Innovation & Practical Service
On the 18th, Chen Wu (Senior Vice President of AsiaInfo Technologies) attended the Industrial Intelligence Forum upon invitation, and signed an "Industry-University-Research-Application Ecosystem Partnership" agreement with Ding Ding (Deputy General Manager of China Unicom Data Intelligence Company) and representatives from multiple partners. Both parties will focus on industrial intelligence, jointly build an industry-university-research-application ecosystem, promote synergistic development between technology and market, accelerate the deployment of innovation achievements, and advance China's industrial intelligence development.
Figure: Chen Wu attends the signing ceremony
On the same day, Dr. Ouyang Ye (CTO and SVP of AsiaInfo Technologies, IEEE Fellow) attended the China Unicom Cloud AI Renewal Forum upon invitation. Witnessed by Zhu Hanwu (Deputy General Manager of China Unicom), Ouyang Ye signed the "Digital Intelligence Product Market Ecosystem Co-construction Initiative" on behalf of AsiaInfo Technologies with Zhu Changbo (General Manager of China Unicom Digital Technology Co., Ltd.) and representatives from other partners. All parties involved will advance China Unicom's digital services to a new height through co-building platforms, co-forging capabilities, and co-sharing values.
Figure: Ouyang Ye attends the ceremony
Wang Qinglin (Vice President of AsiaInfo Technologies) attended both China Unicom's Data Elements & Digital Intelligence Achievements Launch Event and Autonomous Network White Paper Release Conference upon invitation. As the strategic partners, AsiaInfo Technologies and China Unicom have continuously deepened partnership in data element development and application, digital intelligence product innovation, and autonomous network exploration. They have established benchmark cases across multiple industries and jointly secured prestigious honors including the Third Prize in the National Final of the "Data Element X" Competition.
Figure: Wang Qinglin attends the product launch conference
On the 19th, Li Yunchuan (Vice President of AsiaInfo Technologies and CEO of iDigital) participated in the Digital Intelligence Healthcare Forum upon invitation, and attended the launch ceremony for China Unicom's healthcare agent achievements. In recent years, AsiaInfo Technologies and China Unicom have leveraged AI, large model, agent and other technologies to enhance communication service support, network operation/maintenance and customer service efficiency, empowering various industries to achieve digital intelligence transformation.
Figure: Li Yunchuan attends the ceremony
03 "Network-Data-Intelligence-Security" Products + Services, Empowering China Unicom to Achieve Technological Innovation and Practical Service
At this conference, focusing on four dimensions including Network, Data, Intelligence and Security, AsiaInfo Technologies has integrated and showcased the full-link digital intelligence capabilities in "Network Construction/Management/Operation/Maintenance", "Data Mining and Application", "AI Innovation Empowerment" and "Security Protection". Leveraging "Product + Service" capabilities, AsiaInfo Technologies comprehensively empowers China Unicom to advance "Computing-Network Convergence, Digital-Intelligence Convergence, and Digital Economy-Real Economy Convergence",thereby accelerating its evolution into a "World-Class Technology Service Enterprise".
Figure: Visitors to AsiaInfo Technologies' booth in an endless stream
In terms of "Network", AsiaInfo Technologies' full-stack private 5G-A network product system has attracted significant attention. It is a set of integrated software and hardware products, including private 5G core network, wireless network, base station, edge computing platform, private network intelligent connecting product, operation platforms, etc. Based on this product portfolio, AsiaInfo Technologies provides various industries with end-to-end one-stop services encompassing private 5G network planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance, having established numerous benchmark cases across industries such as communication, nuclear energy, electrical power and mining.
Figure: AsiaInfo Technologies' private 5G network product portfolio
In terms of "Data", AsiaInfo Technologies has condensed its full lifecycle service capabilities covering data development, governance, storage, application, and value-added operation onto exhibition display. Highlights include its trending "Trusted Data Space" product, which integrates cutting-edge technologies including data use control, privacy-preserving computation, smart contracts and blockchain, empowers the customers to build efficient, secure and trusted data infrastructure, safeguards customers' data sovereignty and use security, and facilitates an open and efficient data element market in China.
Figure: AsiaInfo Technologies' full-stack product portfolio for trusted data space
In terms of "Intelligence", AsiaInfo Technologies has established an industry-specific large model product portfolio comprising "2 general AI platforms, 5 industry-specific large models and N industry-specific agent tools", while launching the large model integrated server adapted to diverse scenarios. Based on "domestic large model + computing power + large model service +vertical scenario" full-stack capability system and full-stack adaptation advantage for mainstream general models like DeepSeek, AsiaInfo Technologies has created a competitive large model delivery framework featuring "a methodology + a tool set + a professional team", established an end-to-end full-link large model application delivery service system covering requirement analysis, consulting & planning, product R & D, implementation and delivery, operation and maintenance, formed hundreds of commercial cases in communication, energy, government affairs, transportation and other industries, and accumulated abundant practical achievements.
Figure: AsiaInfo Technologies' AISWare Insights · LLMs for Verticals product portfolio
In terms of "Security", AsiaInfo Technologies and AsiaInfo Security have forged a unique "Cloud-Network-Data-Intelligence + Security" convergence and coexistence mode. They jointly deliver comprehensive, multi-tiered digital intelligence transformation and security services to the customers.
Looking back on the past three decades of trials and triumphs, AsiaInfo Technologies and China Unicom have stood side by side—from providing foundational communication services to co-creating a digital intelligence ecosystem. Together, they have witnessed the leapfrog development of China's information and communication industry. Now standing at a new starting point of digital-intelligence convergence and digital economy-real economy integration, both parties will leverage this momentum to jointly advance toward the next chapter of "Digital Intelligence Empowering Enterprise" and "Building China into a Strong Nation in Science and Technology"!
