Join hands to innovate and start a smart future. The completion and project signing ceremony of Cisco (Guangzhou) Smart City Industrial Development Center was successfully held

In order to promote the further development of Cisco (Guangzhou) Smart City project and introduce more technical strength and high-quality resources from local and overseas ecological partners, the completion and project signing ceremony of Cisco (Guangzhou) Smart City Industry Development Center was successfully held in Panyu on August 28, 2018. Ma Wentian, deputy mayor of Guangzhou, He Rucheng, Chen Dejun, Wu Huiyuan, Tan Bin, leaders of Panyu District, Chen Shiwei, senior vice president of Cisco and chairman of Greater China, Xiao Jieyun, global vice president of Cisco and CEO of Greater China, senior executives of Cisco partner companies, leaders of relevant functional departments of Guangzhou City and Panyu District, and about 200 people from provincial and municipal news media attended the event.

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Cisco (Guangzhou) Smart City Industry Development Center

Leaders of the Guangzhou Municipal Government and Panyu District Government and senior executives of Cisco jointly unveiled the Cisco (Guangzhou) Smart City Industrial Development Center. Deputy Mayor of Panyu District Tan Bin, Chairman of Cisco Greater China Chen Shiwei, and CEO of Cisco Greater China Xiao Jieyun delivered speeches respectively. Afterwards, leaders of the Guangzhou Municipal Government and Panyu District Government visited the Cisco (Guangzhou) Smart City Industrial Development Center and witnessed the signing of contracts between Cisco, Country Garden Group, the development and construction partner of Cisco (Guangzhou) Smart City project, and partner companies.

In his speech, Tan Bin, deputy mayor of Panyu District, said that in April this year, the Panyu District Government and Cisco successfully held a signing ceremony for industrial cooperation projects. Now, the major phased achievement of the construction of Cisco (Guangzhou) Smart City has been ushered in - the completion of the Industrial Development Center. Another batch of key cooperation projects are about to sign cooperation agreements, which will add new vitality to the development and construction of Cisco (Guangzhou) Smart City. In recent years, Panyu District has adhered to the guidance of the new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, conscientiously implemented the new development concept and high-quality development requirements, closely focused on the strategic deployment of Guangzhou's construction of an important national central city, a national innovation center city, and a hub network city, actively integrated into the "Belt and Road" and the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and took the initiative to connect with the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Corridor. The district has made every effort to promote the construction of four major development platforms, three parks and one base, focusing on strategic emerging industries such as the Internet, big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence, and fully promoting high-quality economic development.

Cisco Global Senior Vice President and Greater China Chairman Chen Shiwei delivered a speech

Cisco Global Senior Vice President and Greater China Chairman Chen Shiwei said that since the Guangzhou Municipal Government and Cisco signed a cooperation framework agreement in 2016, with the strong support of governments at all levels, Cisco has ushered in another important milestone in the development of Cisco (Guangzhou) Smart City. Cisco will continue to work with domestic and foreign ecological partners to seize the development opportunities of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, build a national intelligent manufacturing and intelligent service demonstration and leading area, promote economic growth and business innovation in the entire region, and accelerate the development of the national smart industry.

The event brought together many cross-industry partners of Cisco from home and abroad. Cisco signed a project framework agreement with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, a partner of the Cisco (Guangzhou) Smart City project, to jointly cooperate in smart city technology research and talent exchange between Hong Kong and Guangzhou; and signed a cooperation agreement with QingCloud, a unicorn company in the field of enterprise-level full-stack cloud ICT services, to jointly build a digital platform for cloud computing and big data to support future industry applications and urban services in smart cities. At the same time, Cisco also signed a memorandum of cooperation with global well-known companies such as France's Engie (formerly Suez Environment) Group and Suez Environment Group to cooperate in smart city energy management solutions, water resource treatment, and waste recycling solutions. It also joined hands with SOSA, Israel's largest global startup incubation and innovation platform, to attract and cultivate international high-tech companies for Cisco (Guangzhou) Smart City.

Cisco (Guangzhou) Smart City is located in the core area of ​​the Guangzhou International Science and Technology Innovation City Startup Zone, adjacent to Guangzhou University Town. The project revolves around the construction idea of ​​"building a city with industry and promoting industry with the city", combining Cisco's IoT technology advantages with the industry solutions of industry partners to build a smart industry ecosystem required for smart city life, work, study, entertainment and other aspects, and create a smart city model with demonstration effect and industry-driven effect in the country and even the world. The Cisco (Guangzhou) Smart City Industrial Development Center, which was completed this time, introduced scenarios such as future smart cities, smart environments, and industrial-city interconnection, and fully demonstrated the new look of smart cities. In the future, Cisco (Guangzhou) Smart City Industrial Development Center will build a high-end and high-quality innovation ecosystem by connecting global industries, projects and talent resources, and is committed to building a world-renowned technology exhibition hall, a global smart city exchange and cooperation center, and a global technology achievement transformation center.

Cisco (Guangzhou) Smart City integrates "industry, learning, research, business, and city". It will become the first smart city in China with intelligent manufacturing cloud industry as the core and an annual output value of over 100 billion yuan. Cisco hired a professional consulting company to formulate the industrial development plan of Cisco (Guangzhou) Smart City, which will focus on the development of industries such as the Internet of Things, cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence. The Cisco (Guangzhou) Smart City project has been included in the "Guangdong Province 2018 Key Construction Project Plan" and one of the top ten value innovation parks in Guangzhou in the "Guangzhou IAB Industrial Development Plan". While accelerating the construction of the Cisco project, Panyu District, together with Cisco and Country Garden Group, fully utilized the industry leadership and influence of well-known leading enterprises, actively introduced Cisco's global partner companies, and promoted the agglomeration and development of upstream and downstream industries, and made every effort to create an innovation cluster with Cisco as the core.

It is reported that in order to ensure the fastest possible implementation of the Cisco (Guangzhou) Smart City project, the Panyu District Committee and District Government have, in recent years, in accordance with the work arrangements of Guangzhou City, concentrated resources and simplified the approval process to fully promote the project's land use and investment promotion and other related work. At present, Cisco (China) Innovation Technology Co., Ltd. has officially started operations, and the manufacturing cloud platform and iShowroom exhibition hall have been gradually put into use. The first phase of the first plot of the Cisco (Guangzhou) Smart City project is expected to be completed in December 2022, and the "eight roads and one tunnel" infrastructure projects such as Jinguang East Avenue, Nanda Trunk Line, and Jinguang East Tunnel are being accelerated simultaneously. Panyu District, together with Cisco and Country Garden Group, has established a professional investment promotion team. Focusing on strategic emerging industries such as big data, Internet of Things, cloud computing and intelligent manufacturing, it has actively carried out targeted investment promotion for Cisco's upstream and downstream industrial chains in the United States, South Korea, Israel, Beijing, Shanghai, Taiwan and other places. It has held a number of large-scale events, including the Cisco Greater China Partner Investment Promotion Conference in Panyu, the Cisco (Guangzhou) Smart City Groundbreaking Event, the "Yujian Silicon Valley" Cisco (Guangzhou) Smart City Investment Promotion Conference, and the Israel Investment Promotion Conference. Nearly 30 Cisco partner companies have been successfully introduced. With the accelerated gathering of global innovation elements, the Cisco (Guangzhou) Smart City project will do a good job in incubating, developing and experiencing related technologies and applications in the fields of smart life, smart transportation, smart lighting management, smart building construction, cloud services, and supply chain finance, and carry out in-depth industrial cooperation in the fields of unmanned driving, new energy vehicles, and Internet of Vehicles.

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Cisco Global Vice President and Greater China CEO Xiao Jieyun delivered a speech

"With more than 20 years of roots in China, Cisco has always been committed to accelerating the country's digital transformation through innovation-driven development and bringing rich innovative experiences to people," said Jane Xiao, Cisco Global Vice President and CEO of Greater China. "The smart city initiatives carried out with Guangzhou will play a key role in this transformation. We will make full use of Cisco's rich practices in the field of smart cities, work with the government and partners to create a new benchmark for the global innovation economy, and jointly unleash the unlimited potential of digitalization."