In 2013, China initiated the proposal to co-build the "Silk Road Economic Belt" and the "21st Century Maritime Silk Road" (hereinafter referred to as the "Belt and Road Initiative"), which has become a welcomed platform for international public goods and global cooperation.

China Unicom, one of the incumbent telecom operators in China, has been proactively deploying innovative and quality digital information infrastructure. With its expertise in five

"BIG" business emphasis, which are "Big Connectivity, Big Computing, Big Data, Big Application and Big Security", China Unicom plays an inevitable role in accelerating an effective stage for global cooperation as well as stimulating a high-quality growth for the Belt and Road Initiative.

Investing in advanced digital information infrastructure

As consortium investors for extensive numbers of international submarine and terrestrial cable systems, the robust and accessible global telecommunications network of China Unicom guarantees global users with the state-of-the-art experience in converged computing-networking, and integrated cloud-network-edge services.

Located in Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate, Hong Kong, China Unicom Global Center was launched in August 2016. China Unicom takes pride of this first data center outside the Chinese mainland, especially this purpose-built facility serves as an important digital information infrastructure hub and global telecom collaboration platform to facilitate the co-development of the Belt and Road Initiative. The Global Center is awarded with the "China Construction Engineering Luban Prize " in 2017 as well as the "Best Data Center Service Provider" by Telecom Asia Awards in 2019.

Leveraging on the unique competitive edge of a solid foundation in the Chinese mainland and an abundantly connected global network, China Unicom has accelerated the implementation of the innovation-driven development strategy, to speed up the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance. Through implementing a unified SDN intelligent platform, enhanced functions such as customized Quality of Service and immediate deployment of service are realized. China Unicom has become one of the major network service providers connecting the Chinese mainland with Hong Kong and overseas, East Asia with America, Central Asia with Europe, and China with Southeast Asian countries.

Providing high-quality information and communication services

Over the past seven years, China Unicom Global, a wholly owned subsidiary of China Unicom Group. has endeavored to provide a full spectrum of comprehensive information and communication services to customers worldwide. Looking into the BRI countries and regions, China Unicom Global highlighted to offer professional industrial digital solutions, including manufacturing, finance, government, transportation and logistics, energy, e-commerce and TMT (technology, media and telecom). China Unicom Global is working closely with 300-plus telecom operators, 500-plus mobile operators as well as 130-plus ICT and cloud service providers globally to achieve a mutually beneficial cooperation.

High-quality services help China Unicom win a good reputation among its global users. The company's Cloud-bond service is readily available in more than 400 smart nodes, connecting to over 360 cloud providers around the world. Cloud-bond is a plug and play service, capable of supporting a flexible, secured, agile and resilient services through one-stop delivery and unified platform. As China Unicom’s backbone internet network is leading in terms of low network latency and high reliability, China Unicom is aiming to become the best partner for Chinese enterprises investing abroad, and for foreign companies investing in the Chinese market.

To better serve travelers in the BRI countries and regions with "home-like" roaming experience, China Unicom has launched a series of handy mobile service packages, such as Daily Unlimited Package, Multi-country Multi-day Package, High Speed Top up Package, hoping users can enjoy the convenience of the service willingly, easily and happily.

In the days to come, China Unicom will continue to join hands with domestic and overseas partners to co-build and light up the "Digital Silk Road". With a wide range of high-quality, secured and reliable products, services and solutions, China Unicom is strong-minded to adopt technological innovation to continuously upgrade the service level of digital information services, in order to inject new momentum, new values and new insights into the development of digital economy for countries and regions involved in the Belt and Road Initiative, and eventually to empower, energize and enlighten the digital lives of customers worldwide.