China Mobile Capital leads the investment in Unisplendour Cloud, completes 600 million yuan financing and focuses on the government and enterprise market

On September 15, Unisplendour Cloud Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Unisplendour Cloud"), a subsidiary of Unisplendour Corporation, announced the completion of RMB 600 million in financing. The financing, in which China Mobile Capital Holdings Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "China Mobile Capital") participated, will help meet Unisplendour Cloud's funding needs in technology research and development, market expansion, node construction, etc. related to cloud computing and cloud services, expand its business scale, enhance its operational strength, strengthen its market competitiveness, and promote the healthy and rapid development of Unisplendour Cloud, thereby becoming a leading enterprise in the cloud services field in China's government and enterprise sectors.

Yu Yingtao, Chairman of Tsinghua Unigroup, President and CEO of H3C Group, and Chairman of Tsinghua Unigroup Cloud, said, "For a long time, China Mobile has maintained a good business cooperation relationship with H3C and Tsinghua Unigroup Cloud. China Mobile is currently the telecom operator with the largest network scale, the largest number of customers, and the highest brand value and market value in the world. Within the operator system, China Mobile is strong, with complete wired and wireless networks and abundant data center resources. In addition, China Mobile's strong brand effect and strong sales and service network that covers counties and towns across the country are also resources that Tsinghua Unigroup Cloud and H3C value very much. The two parties will further complement each other's advantages, and with the help of China Mobile's resource accumulation in data centers, bandwidth, etc., they will improve the infrastructure construction of both parties and further optimize the node layout. At the same time, based on the hybrid cloud architecture, they will enrich the service product categories of both parties and enhance their cloud service capabilities. Through this financing, China Mobile, as a strategic investor, not only recognizes our trust and technology, but also brings business synergy to Tsinghua Unigroup Cloud, marking a new milestone for Tsinghua Unigroup Cloud."

China Mobile Capital said that China Mobile has been vigorously developing its own cloud business in recent years and strengthening its layout of ecological partners. Unigroup Cloud has advanced technology advantages and solution strengths in the field of cloud services, especially focusing on the government and enterprise industry, and has good synergy prospects with China Mobile's government and enterprise business. It is hoped that the two sides will complement each other in cloud service technology cooperation, government and enterprise industry markets, smart city businesses, etc., and jointly explore the market.

Since its establishment, Ziguang Cloud has gradually improved its product technology, matured its business model, and entered the fast lane of business development. The newly upgraded Ziguang Cloud 3.0 provides full coverage capabilities such as public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, industry cloud, and edge cloud with a set of technical architecture. Ziguang Cloud 3.0, built by the Ziluan platform and the Oasis platform, achieves the unification of hybrid cloud architecture and user application data, maintains a consistent application experience, and creates a cloud service delivery model for customers with continuous operation, continuous use, and excellent experience. The new self-developed hybrid cloud platform "Ziluan" provides 16 categories and more than 300 cloud services, which is in line with the mainstream technology development trend, making it more intuitive, convenient, and smooth for users to go to the cloud, truly serving all industries.

In terms of operational capabilities, Unisplendour Cloud continues to promote the construction and layout of national nodes, and has built four major regions and 25 cloud nodes, accumulating core intellectual property rights and relevant important qualifications. In the field of government cloud, Unisplendour Cloud has provided comprehensive digital products and cloud service operations for 17 national ministerial-level, 25 provincial-level, and more than 300 municipal, district, and county-level government clouds, serving more than 10,000 customers in the field of cloud computing. It has a Level 3 security protection filing certificate, 6 national cloud evaluation certificates, sales licenses from relevant national institutions, and trusted cloud open source solution certification, helping Zhengzhou, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Tianjin, Lianyungang, Shenyang and other dozens of smart cities across the country in top-level planning, full-process deployment, delivery and operation management, and has deep industry accumulation. In the 2020 government cloud service operation ^market① , Unisplendour Cloud entered the top five for the first time. In addition, in the field of smart cities, Unisplendour Cloud has joined hands with H3C to deploy smart cities in 65 cities and counties across the country, and has cumulatively served the construction and operation of 175 smart cities; it ranked among the top ^two in the country in the ranking of smart city suppliers winning bids in the first half of 2021②. In the field of industrial Internet, Tsinghua Unigroup Cloud, based on its own advantages and combined with its understanding of the industry and digital capabilities, continues to achieve breakthroughs in the industrial innovation capabilities of chip cloud, building cloud, and industrial cloud. As of August 2021, Tsinghua Unigroup's 2021 semi-annual report showed that Tsinghua Unigroup Cloud achieved operating income of 392 million yuan in the first half of the year, a year-on-year increase of 73.42%, an impressive achievement.

The success of this financing is a strategically significant step for Unigroup Cloud. In the future, Unigroup Cloud will continue to promote the improvement of Unigroup's "core-cloud-network-edge-end" industrial chain, and under the guidance of the "cloud-intelligence native" strategy, enhance its core competitiveness in the field of cloud computing and better support the comprehensive development of the cloud computing industry chain.

Sources:

① IDC "China Government Cloud Service Operation Market Share, 2020" report

②New smart city information "Ranking of winning smart city projects/enterprises in the first half of 2021"