Chinese cities scramble to implement Huawei’s industrial ecosystem
Local Chinese cities are scrambling to be homes to Huawei’s Kunpeng industrial ecosystem, a phenomenon that shows Chinese local governments’ eagerness and strong motivation to push economic transformation by ushering in new technologies, experts said.
Such eagerness has been intensified amid the US efforts to thwart Chinese high-tech firms’ supply chains in the US.
On Tuesday, Huawei signed two cooperation framework agreements with Changsha in Central China’s Hunan Province to cooperate in two areas: Huawei’s Kunpeng computing industrial ecosystem and the intelligence connected automobile industrial ecosystem.
According to the agreement, Changsha will set up an innovation manufacturing base to promote the development of Kunpeng. A Kunpeng cloud service innovation center will also be established in Changsha.
During this year’s Smart China Expo, Huawei also signed an agreement with Southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality to jointly establish a center for the Kunpeng computing industrial ecosystem.
Huawei has already launched its Kunpeng industrial ecosystem base and supercomputing center in Xiamen, East China’s Fujian Province, which will provide computing services for local governments and major local state-owned enterprises using Huawei chips and operating systems.
Huawei launched its Advanced RISC Machine-based CPU, called Huawei Kunpeng 920, in January. It plans to establish an industry ecosystem based on the Kunpeng CPU, and also plans to join hands with partners in the ecosystem to offer IT infrastructure and industrial applications to various industries, including big data platforms and cloud services.
Veteran telecommunications expert Xiang Ligang said that now many local governments have placed greater hopes on driving their local economies via technological industries.
Xiang said that many traditional industries have side effects for the economy such as real estate bubbles or pollution, but that’s less of a problem with high-tech industries.
“Particularly while the trade war lasts, the Chinese government has realized the importance of developing independent high technologies. This is also pushing local governments to speed up their high-tech industrial development,” Xiang said.