Jinan High-tech Zone, Inspur and Cisco signed a strategic cooperation memorandum

On the morning of December 4, Jinan High-tech Zone, Inspur and Cisco jointly signed a strategic cooperation memorandum. With its smart city industry experience, Cisco supports Inspur in building an industrial park featuring network communications in Jinan. This is another important measure for Inspur and Cisco to further deepen their joint venture cooperation, which is of great significance to the realization of regional industrial upgrading and even the promotion of the construction of a new era of network power.

Wang Wentao, Deputy Secretary of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Jinan Municipal Party Committee, Wang Zhonglin, Deputy Secretary of the Jinan Municipal Party Committee and Mayor, Sun Pishu, Chairman and CEO of Inspur Group, Chuck Robbins, CEO of Cisco, Chen Shiwei, Senior Vice President of Cisco Global and Chairman of Greater China, Stephen Rothki, Senior Vice President of Cisco Global and Chief Strategy Officer, and Fan Kai, Senior Vice President of Cisco Global and Chief Talent Officer, attended the signing ceremony. Wang Hongzhi, Member of the Standing Committee of the Jinan Municipal Party Committee and Director of the Management Committee of the High-tech Zone, Wang Maochang, President of Inspur Group, and Xiao Jieyun, Vice President of Cisco Global and CEO of Greater China, signed a memorandum of strategic cooperation on behalf of the three parties.

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Shandong Provincial Party Committee Secretary Liu Jiayi meets with Luo Zhuoke and Sun Pishu

According to the memorandum, the tripartite cooperation will use the network communication industry chain of the Inspur Cisco joint venture as a carrier, and with the leading technical advantages and industry experience of Cisco and Inspur, invest in the construction of an industrial park featuring network communication in Jinan High-tech Zone, attract investment from global partners, gather excellent network communication product supporting manufacturers and scientific and technological talents at home and abroad, and create a network communication industry ecological chain with Jinan as the core, becoming a leading network communication industry gathering area and new highland in China. After the park is completed and put into operation, it is expected to introduce hundreds of upstream and downstream high-quality enterprises, with more than 20,000 employees.

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Shandong Provincial Party Committee Deputy Secretary and Governor Gong Zheng met with Luo Zhuoke and Sun Pishu

At the same time, Inspur will also work with Cisco to carry out extensive cooperation in areas such as building a smart city in Jinan, creating network communication solutions for the Belt and Road Initiative, building a cloud platform for small and medium-sized enterprises, developing intelligent manufacturing, cultivating network talents, and supporting the development of makers.

Jinan High-tech Zone, Inspur and Cisco signed a strategic cooperation memorandum

As China's leading cloud computing and big data leader, Inspur has always been committed to building advanced cloud computing core equipment technology, products and solution capabilities. It has the leading domestic smart city construction solutions and rich practical experience. It is providing cloud computing and big data services to more than 130 provincial and municipal governments across the country to promote the construction of smart cities. In the construction of industrial parks, Inspur will inject its cloud services, smart cities, big data and other businesses into industrial parks, provide smart solutions for industrial parks, and cooperate with core ecological partners to drive the settlement of cloud computing, big data, smart cities, network communications and other industry-related projects, thereby creating advanced domestic characteristic industrial parks.

Cisco is a global technology leader with extensive experience in cooperation with industries around the world. In this cooperation, Cisco will work with partners to provide the industrial park with its intelligent manufacturing cloud service technology, IoT smart cloud service, IoT big data service, innovation incubation center and other industrial resources and platforms, as well as the park's industry, R&D, business, and livable integrated development plan. At the same time, it will leverage its industry-leading advantages to attract upstream and downstream ecological partner resources in the network communication industry to settle in the industrial park and create an "Internet of Everything" ecosystem.

Under the new orientation of Sino-US relations of "mutual respect, mutual benefit and win-win", the signing of this memorandum is a concrete manifestation of the high-tech enterprises of China and the United States adapting to the trend of international technological development and integration to create a new cooperation model. In addition, the implementation of the cooperation between Inspur and Cisco will further provide higher-level products and solutions for China's informatization construction and build a highly secure and reliable information infrastructure. At the same time, it will inject new vitality into China's information industry, optimize China's information industry chain, and improve its overall competitiveness.