Recently, ZTE and JD.com held a strategic cooperation signing ceremony in Beijing. JD.com Executive Vice President Wang Peinuan, Vice President Fu Qingming, ZTE Senior Vice President Zhu Yongtao, and Vice Presidents Huang Yihua and Lei Wei attended the signing ceremony. Jiang Wang, Vice President of Customer Cooperation Department of JD.com, and Huang Yihua, Vice President of ZTE signed the strategic cooperation framework agreement on behalf of both parties.
According to the cooperation agreement, the two parties will focus on the application of 5G logistics, industrial Internet, cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence and other technologies in e-commerce, logistics supply chain and other fields, and conduct pre-research on innovative technologies and product integration. Carry out all-round strategic cooperation in aspects such as standard construction, 5G application scenario exploration, media and brand activities.
Exploring the future, e-commerce giants join hands with 5G leaders
As a leading domestic e-commerce company, JD.com has rich 5G application scenarios. As a practitioner of 5G innovation, JD.com has become a leader in 5G technology. As one of the powerful popularizers, practitioners and promoters, it has not only become a smooth channel for operators, 5G terminal enterprises and consumers to connect, but has also taken the lead in applying 5G technology in multiple scenarios, promoting 5G technology in retail, logistics, cloud computing, Intelligent robots and other fields are accelerating their implementation. For example, JD.com is well-known for its logistics business. As early as 2019, JD.com took the lead in building Beijing's "Asia One" into the country's first 5G smart logistics park, exploring and practicing visual recognition, intelligent dispatching, autonomous security, etc. The application and implementation of more than ten key scenarios. Since 2020, JD Logistics has completed the 5Gization of full-process logistics warehousing robots and the verification of cloud-edge-device collaboration platform in the warehousing robot laboratory.
As a 5G giant, ZTE is a major participant and contributor in global 5G technology research and standard setting. According to reports from external institutions, ZTE's 5G base station shipments in the first half of 2021 ranked second in the world, and its 5G core network ranked second in global revenue in the first half of 2021; optical network ranked second in global operator market share in Q1 2021; metropolitan area Packet optical transmission products and end-to-end FTTP solutions continue to maintain the highest level of Leader rating.
ZTE Corporation has always insisted on taking root downwards, continuously increasing investment in underlying core technologies such as chips, algorithms and network architecture, constantly strengthening its core competitiveness, maintaining its advantages, and constantly innovating. Currently, ZTE has 80,000 global patent applications and more than 38,000 authorized patents. It has ranked among the top five in the world in PCT international patent applications for nine consecutive years. Moreover, relying on ZTE's "precision cloud network" and "enabling platform", its 5G applications in transmission, data centers, servers and storage products, enterprise networks, secure offices, distributed databases and other core product solutions have been widely used in the government and enterprise markets. application and formed a good cloud network ecosystem.
Repeated cooperation to achieve the ultimate win
Not long ago, at the 2021 World 5G Conference, ZTE joined forces with JD Logistics and others to create the "JD Logistics 5G Fully Connected Smart Warehouse". It stood out among many outstanding cases in the industry and won the first prize in the finals, helping JD Logistics complete the upgrade to a new digital infrastructure of "network customization, edge intelligence, and cloud collaboration".
Intelligent logistics solutions put forward high-performance, high-stability, and high-security requirements for basic communication networks. ZTE has carried out customized designs in terms of network coverage, network equipment, network functions, energy-saving management, etc., and worked with China Telecom Beijing Branch to build a highly reliable, low-latency 5G customized private network for JD Logistics, achieving The deep integration of 5G technology and intelligent logistics systems has completed the verification and commercialization exploration of intelligent warehousing scenarios. Through technologies such as 5G slicing, UPF sinking, and MEC, end-to-end latency is significantly reduced and data does not leave the park, ensuring the data security of JD Logistics Park.
This is not the first time that the two parties have cooperated hand in hand. They have reached cooperation cases in various aspects of business many times before.
In March 2014, ZTE and JD.com jointly launched the one-stop "home after-sales" service for the first time. Through in-depth strategic integration, the two parties closely integrated logistics, after-sales and product supply chains, breaking the separation of sales and after-sales in traditional channels in one fell swoop. Solve consumers’ problems of cumbersome maintenance and difficulty in machine replacement. In October 2017, ZTE and JD.com held a strategic cooperation signing ceremony in New York City, USA. ZTE and JD.com will jointly promote cooperation in mobile terminal layout, online and offline channels, marketing and brand promotion, etc. ** * Embrace the opportunities and challenges of the 5G era together.
The global 5G leader leads the digital upgrade of the industry
ZTE’s cooperation with JD.com once again demonstrates its leadership in global 5G. Wang Peinuan, executive vice president of JD.com, said: "ZTE Both Communications and JD Group are pragmatic and mission-driven companies. It is hoped that both parties will use this strategic cooperation as a guide to further refine the docking of each business sector, continue to increase the scale of cooperation, and establish a comprehensive, deep-level, long-term and stable strategic cooperation. Partnership to achieve coordinated development. ”
Currently, in promoting the digital transformation of industries, ZTE has already engaged in electronic manufacturing, steel, metallurgy, mining, electric power, rail transit, ports, new media, cultural tourism, etc. 15 industries have extensively carried out "5G" innovation practices, and continued to iteratively extract public capabilities, helping applications to be replicated and innovations to be quickly incubated, and empowering the construction of digital ecosystems in thousands of industries.
I believe that this cooperation between ZTE and JD.com will give full play to the comprehensive resource advantages of both companies, strengthen work linkage, promote the sharing of resources, achieve complementary advantages, and jointly expand and expand the cooperation between both parties. There is market space for industry cooperation to achieve mutual benefit, win-win, and high-quality development.