Huawei's Shi Yaohong: The new infrastructure focuses on "foundation" to enable intelligent upgrades in thousands of industries

New infrastructure (i.e. new infrastructure construction) is becoming a new driving force for economic development. On May 20, Shi Yaohong, Vice President of Huawei and President of Huawei Cloud and Computing China, said that the new economy calls for new infrastructure, which is an accelerator for high-quality economic development. The root of new infrastructure lies in "infrastructure", and the core of "infrastructure" is connection and computing. Huawei will use its own technological advantages and uphold the spirit of openness and cooperation to promote the construction of new infrastructure, so that new infrastructure can enable the intelligent upgrade of thousands of industries.

Shi Yaohong, Vice President of Huawei and President of Huawei Cloud and Computing China

"The COVID-19 pandemic is a big test for every individual, every enterprise, every government, and even all of humanity." Shi Yaohong delivered a speech today at the "Digital Economy New 'Base' Encounter - Huawei Cloud and Computing City Summit Special Program". He said that the more digitalized an enterprise is, the stronger its ability to fight the epidemic and the efficiency of resuming production and work will be. "Promoting high-quality development is inseparable from innovative ICT technology (i.e. information and communication technology)." Shi Yaohong believes that new information and communication technology will profoundly change the development process of society. From this perspective, it is time to vigorously develop new infrastructure.

"The key to new infrastructure is to create new momentum, which will stimulate domestic demand and lead industrial upgrading, expand employment and consumer demand, and transform the development model - from relying on increasing investment to relying on improving efficiency." Cao Wenlian, Chairman of the Silk Road Industry and Finance International Alliance and former Director of the International Cooperation Center of the National Development and Reform Commission, said in today's online connection.

"As an ultra-wideband, low-latency, and large-connection mobile communication system, 5G carries all data to the cloud and enables innovative application development." Wu Hequan, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and director of the Advisory Committee of the Internet Society of China, said in his speech today that 5G, as an important part of the new infrastructure, will drive the construction of infrastructure such as data centers and cloud computing, promote the development of a smart society, enhance digital industrialization, support industrial digitalization, and become a new engine for the digital economy.

Shi Yaohong agrees with this. He said that new infrastructure will bring new urban governance, new industrial development, and new individual experience. For the government, urban and social governance will be more efficient and resilient; for enterprises, digital transformation will improve production efficiency, bring about industrial upgrading and high-quality development; for individuals, the convenience brought by digitalization and intelligence will affect all aspects of life.

In the past, infrastructure was the coverage of road networks and power grids. From Huawei's perspective, the "roads" in the new infrastructure era are new connections centered on 5G, and the "power" is the new cloud and computing. "The return on investment in the ICT field is 6.7 times that of traditional fields." Shi Yaohong emphasized that in the future, the traffic of 5G connections and the computing power of cloud and computing will definitely reflect the development of the entire new infrastructure.

"What is the new cloud and computing?" Shi Yaohong said that the new cloud and computing are based on new processors. "The Kunpeng processor for general computing and the Ascend processor for artificial intelligence computing are the "foundation of the foundation" of our new infrastructure. Huawei Cloud and Computing create the most powerful engine for the new infrastructure and are the "new driving force" in the construction of new infrastructure. Huawei Cloud provides the best path for government and enterprises to go to the cloud and supports their digital transformation and intelligent upgrade. He also emphasized that the span of the new infrastructure is very large and no enterprise can complete it independently. Only by opening up the ecosystem and building, sharing and creating together can we truly promote the digital transformation of all industries in the future.

According to He Huiming, Director of the Innovation and Development Bureau and Director of the Statistics Bureau of Shaanxi Xi'an High-tech Zone, who participated in the online connection today, on April 27, at the Shaanxi Chang'an Kunpeng Industry Innovation Conference, Shaanxi Chang'an Computer Technology Co., Ltd. was established and released the Chang'an Kunpeng series of products. Huawei and 10 provincial and municipal units in Shaanxi Province jointly signed a Kunpeng ecological strategic cooperation agreement and joined hands with 31 enterprises and institutions to establish the Shaanxi Kunpeng Computing Industry Innovation Alliance, which will promote the development of Shaanxi's digital economy. The layout of the Kunpeng computing industry ecosystem is just a microcosm of Huawei's promotion of the development of new infrastructure.

There are nearly 40 million small, medium and micro enterprises in China. In different industries and regions, their challenges are actually not exactly the same. "In addition to providing ICT technology, Huawei also hopes to get close to small, medium and micro enterprises in different regions and industries, see what problems and challenges they encounter, and then help them in terms of technology, capital, talent, supply chain marketing, office collaboration and other related aspects." Shi Yaohong said that for enterprises, digital transformation is a reconstruction, and the most important thing is the entrepreneurial spirit of each enterprise. The core of Huawei's "Yunze Plan 2020" is to fully support small, medium and micro enterprises to "go to the cloud and use data to empower intelligence." "We hope to contribute more value to these entrepreneurial enterprises, enhance the vitality of enterprise development, and let the new infrastructure truly promote industrial upgrading."

Shi Yaohong said that in the face of new challenges and opportunities, all parties in the industry need to actively embrace digital transformation, embrace intelligent upgrades, and continue to innovate in order to achieve high-quality development; Huawei will always be customer-centric, work hand in hand with customers and partners, and make progress!