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On July 19, China Unicom held its Partner Conference and Cloud AI Forum in Shanghai, providing an in-depth overview of its recent advancements in artificial intelligence infrastructure and technological innovation. The event featured notable attendees, including Liu Yunjie, an academician from the Chinese Academy of Engineering and chief scientist at the Zijinshan Laboratory; Dong Qun, head of the disciplined inspection and supervision team at China Unicom; and Zhu Hanwu, the company’s vice general manager.
During the forum, China Unicom announced significant progress in its smart computing infrastructure. By integrating data centers, computing resources, and network architecture, the company has established a vast smart computing system with over 1 million standard racks and a computing capacity exceeding 30 EFlops. Notably, it has successfully developed the world’s first benchmark project for heterogeneous mixed training over a distance of more than 1,000 kilometers, achieving a key breakthrough in technological innovation.
China Unicom also introduced its L4 advanced self-intelligence development strategy aimed at upgrading network intelligence. This strategy includes the introduction of Agentic AI technology and plans for phased implementation of 26 high-value application scenarios within the next three years, driven by eight core value streams. The goal is to achieve a comprehensive intelligent transformation of network operations through network agent technology.
The forum highlighted the results of China Unicom’s Cloud AI stack upgrade. On the technical architecture side, the company has enhanced its computing foundation through the pooling of CPU, GPU, and NPU resources and the innovation of its self-developed cloud-native Host k8s 2.0 architecture. In terms of platform capabilities, the AI infrastructure service layer has undergone full adaptation to smart requirements, creating broad-time intelligent storage and distributed scheduling capabilities. Additionally, the AI platform service layer has bolstered data processing and security protection components.
Six new intelligent products were prominently featured, including the “Unicom Dayan” DPU data processing unit, the Unicom Cloud AI cloud-native application development platform, the “Unicom Xingluo” advanced computing scheduling platform 2.0, the Unicom Zhi Zai cloud vehicle-machine application, the Unicom Cloud Smart Computing All-in-One Machine, and the China Unicom Intelligent Product Supermarket.
During the conference, Zhu Changbo, president of China Unicom Digital Technology Co., Ltd., led a signing ceremony for the co-construction of the intelligent product supermarket ecosystem. Representatives from institutions such as the Zhengzhou Municipal Committee, Harbin Big Data Center, and Shanghai Wuyuan Xinqun Intelligent Technology shared collaborative case studies. More than 40 cloud computing companies, including Alibaba Cloud, Baidu, Huawei, Tencent Cloud, and ByteDance, participated in the forum.
The AI infrastructure achievements announced by China Unicom reflect the strategic transformation trends of telecom operators in the era of artificial intelligence. With a computing capacity exceeding 30 EFlops and L4-level network self-intelligence, the company is transitioning traditional telecom infrastructures toward intelligent and service-oriented models. Particularly in areas such as computing-network integration and digital-real integration, telecom operators are emerging as key players driving the digital transformation of the industry.
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