On December 29, China Telecom held the eSurfing Digital Technology Ecosystem Conference 2022 under the guidance of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC). Themed with "Digital Technology Makes Future Better", the Conference aims to fully demonstrate the latest achievements of China Telecom as a result of comprehensively and deeply implementing the strategy of Cloudification & Digital Transformation, further explore new technologies of digital economy, prosper new ecosystem of digital technology and promote new consumption of digital life. The Conference released four scientific and technological innovations, namely, eSurfing Cloud White Paper, eSurfing Cloud Zijin DPU, Xinghe AI Platform and eight industrial digital platforms in the field of industry digitalization, and unfolded the 2023 New Digital Consumption Festival. Yuan Ye, member of the Party Committee and deputy director of SASAC, and Huang Yan, member of the Party Leadership Group and deputy director of the National Rural Revitalization Administration, attended the main forum and delivered a speech. Ke Ruiwen, Chairman of China Telecom, delivered a keynote speech, while Shao Guanglu, General Manager of China Telecom, released the scientific and technological innovation achievements.

Yuan Ye pointed out in his speech that since the beginning of this year, under the guidance of the SASAC, China Telecom had worked closely with relevant central enterprises to create a new consumption platform and carry out online and offline interactive marketing campaigns on the principle of openness and cooperation, which fully reflected the central enterprises' sense of responsibility and big thinking. He put forward four proposals: the first is to give full play to the role of platform economy and implement the "Two No Irresolutions”; the second is to make greater achievements in expanding domestic demand and stimulating consumption; the third is to make greater contributions to fighting the epidemic and protecting health; and the fourth is to explore new business forms and models with digital technology. It is hoped that with the joint efforts of all central enterprises and the vast number of ecological partners, we can steadily promote the ecological construction of digital science and technology and make greater contribution to the efficient circulation and use of data and the better life of the people.

"At present, digital economy has demonstrated great development potential, and new consumption has become an important drive to promote the development of the digital economy. Neither digital economy nor new consumption is separable from the platform. In the keynote speech, Mr. Ke Ruiwen said that China Telecom implemented the strategy of expanding domestic demand based on its existing resources and in line with the development trend of new consumption, actively explored and fully released the new momentum of cloud-network integration, and promoted the key digital technologies such as network, cloud computing, security, AI and new consumption platforms to be continuously integrated into all areas of economic and social life, realizing application innovation and crossover integration of industries to efficiently meet new consumption demands. By strengthening the layout of key areas of digital technology capabilities and building a new consumer base with cloud-network integration as the core, China Telecom will strive to construct key new consumption platforms such as open and integrated digital life platform, TOP-level full-stack industry digitalization platform, and BestPay platform. China Telecom takes the BestPay platform as the carrier to construct a new digital life consumption service with people’s livelihood as the core. In the future, China Telecom will give full play to the bilateral effect of the BestPay platform and further expand the scale of new consumption; further deepen the industrial chain and the supply chain to explore new business forms and models to stimulate consumption potential; transform and upgrade the BestPay industrial data operation platform to stimulate the value of data elements; and enhance platform compliance and self-discipline to promote healthy development of new consumption.

Shao Guanglu released four scientific and technological innovation achievements of China Telecom: The first is eSurfing Cloud White Paper. The White Paper deeply expounds the development history, positioning, development vision, core features, development objectives, evolution paths and key measures of eSurfing Cloud, aiming at providing reference for the development of cloud computing industry and the construction of a new generation of information infrastructure. The second is eSurfing Cloud Zijin DPU. eSurfing Cloud has independently developed a new generation of cloud computing architecture based on Zijin DPU to accelerate the cloudification of computing, network, storage and other computing power resources, which is characterized by high performance, low latency, high reliability, and large-scale deployment. Zijin DPU has achieved three major technological breakthroughs, namely, virtualized full removal, multi-service hardware acceleration and self-developed high-performance network protocols. The third is Xinghe AI Platform. Xinghe AI Platform is the world's first AI product and capability platform based on cloud-network integration and equipped with four-level computing power from network, region, edge to end. The fourth is the eight industrial digital platforms in the field of industry digitalization. China Telecom, in collaboration with industrial partners in the field of industry digitalization, has built a series of industrial digital platforms that meet the needs of customers for informatization and integrated the core technologies of cloud, network, digitalization, intelligence and security, covering three major fields, namely social governance, digital economy and digital life.

During the Conference, China Telecom joined hands with more than 10 partners including China Resources Holdings, China Tourism Group, Xinxing Cathay International Group, SINOPEC Group, CNOOC Group, COFCO Group, Huawei and JD.COM to launch the 2023 New Digital Consumption Festival. The New Digital Consumption Festival is based on the New Digital Consumption Platform, which integrates Big Data, AI, block chain and other new technologies, and promotes the coordinated development of "central enterprises + private enterprises" in a new model of mutual promotion and win-win results, thus to bring new consumption experiences to users.

Cristiano Amon, President and CEO of QUALCOMM, Wang Xiangming, Chairman of China Resources (Holdings) Co., Ltd., Xu Zhijun, Rotating Chairman of Huawei, Tan Jianrong, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Chen Junlong, Academician of the Academy of Europe and Vice-chairman of the China Association of Automation and other ecosystem partners and invited experts delivered great speeches on digital technology, new digital consumption, network security, artificial intelligence, etc. The Conference organized eight sub-forums from the 29th to the 30th, focusing on topics such as new digital consumption, industry digitalization, digital life, cyber security, artificial intelligence, green development, scientific and technological innovation, and intelligent operation. Experts and scholars, representatives of well-known enterprises in the field of digital science and technology, and industry leaders gathered together to explore the development trends in relevant fields of digital science and technology. The main forum and all sub-forums were livestreamed on line.

Reportedly, the Conference would also open a one-month online exhibition of ecosystem cooperation achievements, where China Telecom would showcase its digital capabilities and terminal cooperation, industry digitalization cooperation, digital life cooperation, digital consumption festival activities and other aspects, so as to fully demonstrate the latest digital scientific and technological achievements as a result of joint efforts between China Telecom and its nearly 100 partners.

In order to deliver a more visual, interesting and interactive experience in the "Cloud Exhibition Hall", China Telecom created elaborate 3D digital sandtable and meta-verse space instead of the traditional plane interactive mode. Visitors can have access to the meta-verse through mobile phones and PCs, select their favorite virtual roles to view the exhibition from the first perspective, and feel the real-time and on-site charm of eSurfing Digital Technology Ecosystem Conference in the virtual space.