Li Zhigang, President of the China Telecom Research Institute Beijing, Zhang Chengliang, Vice President of the China Telecom Research Institute Beijing, and Liu Peng, Vice President of ZTE, were among the leaders and experts who attended the signing ceremony on March 24, 2016.

Both sides will work closely together, sharing resources to develop more sophisticated network technologies that will support China Telecom's network construction and reconstruction services. This collaboration will also benefit the broader industry by bringing further advancements, cutting-edge technologies, and innovations to the market.

“As we enter the era of artificial intelligence, operators are expected to provide a full range of network solutions. Through this cooperation, we will be able to achieve significant advancements in SDN/NFV, 4G+/5G, cloud computing, and big data technologies in the coming years. I believe that these new technologies will become a reality through pilot implementations,” said Zhang Chengliang, Vice President of the China Telecom Research Institute in Beijing. “I look forward to deepening our collaboration from a purely network perspective to the evolution of information and communication technologies, such as ZTE’s smart city project in Yinchuan.”

“I would like to thank the China Telecom Beijing Research Institute for this long-term agreement,” said Liu Peng, Vice Chairman of ZTE. “ZTE is dedicated to developing innovations that evolve the network reconstruction of operators and meet future needs. I am confident that ZTE and the China Telecom Beijing Institute will deliver impressive results to help China Telecom in its strategic business transformation.”.

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