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The 14th and 5th period was the last time in china's history of telecommunicationsStrategic transformationAnd the ability to rebuild. At its 2021 working session, china telecommunications set out the strategic objective of “services, technology and safe enterprises”, using the integration of cloud networks as a key to breaking the rules, and initiated a profound change from “pipe provider” to “digital builder”。

Today, the change has borne fruit: the world's largest network of 5g sa covers both urban and rural areas, and self-studying on the scale of the “sealo” chile chile platform has surpassed 85eflops, with more than 6 million users of quantum storyScience and technology innovationInput intensity jumped from 2. 5 per cent to 3. 92 per cent. Five years of deep tillage, from the strategic upgrading of top-level design, to the self-empowerment of key core technologies, to the scaling-up of innovation, china telecommunications successfully crossed the cycle and handed over a landmark “xiv5” innovation response in the cold。

Strategic advancements: from “guaranteed support” to “driver lead”

The success of transition begins with a clear top-level design and a strong strategic drive. China's telecommunications vision of creating a “three-size enterprise” is clearly enshrined in the “four-fifth” development plan and has initiated a systemic change from thinking to action, from organization to operation。

First is the strategic reorganization and professionalization of the organizational structure. Since 2021, china's telecommunications has embarked on a new wave of professional reforms to strengthen its core capacity in the subdivision of markets through the establishment of a series of specialized firms focusing on frontier areas. Integration of the creation of sky clouds technology ltd., which brings together the group's efforts to focus on autonomous research and development and market expansion of cloud operations; the establishment of the medium telecommunications quantum information technology group, which will look forward to setting up the quantum communications industry; and the strengthening of the central telecommunications artificial intelligence technology ltd., which will focus on the development of large models in ai and on industrial empowerment. This pattern of “corporate management and professional leadership” has broken with the previously fragmented and under-coordinated nature of resources and has enabled the front-line scientific and technological blocks to cultivate their fields of specialization in unison and quickly to build up their fighting power。

Second is the forward-looking focus and eco-structure of the business landscape. In 2023, at the congress on digital science and technology ecology, chinese telecommunications systematically released seven strategic and emerging industries and future industry layouts, clearly targeting the main areas of cloud computing and computing, artificial intelligence, security, digital platforms, big data, quantum, and new generation of information communications, and building the moat on key tracks that determine future competitiveness. This strategy focused on a fruitful outcome: “during the 14th and 5th periodic reviews of major science, technology and innovation at the national level, china telecommunications received a number of awards in 2023 for the first prize of the national prize for progress in science and technology for the next generation of sava-based technology and scale applications, which was completed by china telecommunications. The country's largest quantum calculator cluster “fift-to-fift” quantification cloud platform was launched and successfully selected as a heavyweight for the 10 big countries in 2024; the world's first, largest and most accessible visual network was built and successfully selected as a top 10 super-engineering project in 2024; and the “key technology and scale applications for connected satellite systems for mass smart phones” project won the 2025 world internet congress leading science award. In 2024, the number of patenting licences for new inventions in telecommunications in china increased by 115. 9 per cent over the same period, with the world's operators ranked second in the list of patents. In the construction of scientific and technological enterprises, china telecommunications took part in 85 national-level projects during the “xiv-v” period. The cumulative number of patenting licences in the 5g/6g area was 2397, and the capacity for autonomous innovation was highly recognized at the national level。

Competency exercise: from "technology applications" to "autonomous originals"

The landing of a strategy is ultimately underpinned by hard technical strength. China's telecommunications has continued to expand its research and development inputs, and in 2024 the cost of china's telecommunications research and development was 14,530 million yuan, an increase of 11. 3 per cent over the same period in 2023. A series of landmark results and breakthroughs have been achieved through the continuous exploration and innovation of scientific and technological research and development teams of more than 10,000 people。

In the direction of the network, the first five-g sa shared network of the largest size was built, the largest roadm full-light and giga-optic networks were built, and the global lead was achieved in mobile phone and car direct satellite services. The pilot commercialization of a multi-mega-light network of applications was carried out in key cities throughout the country, with the deployment of low-altitude intelligence networks and the introduction of sky-wing low-altitude cards. In the area of the next generation of light networks, the development of 400 gbit/s over long distances of the extended c+l band integrated light module introduced for the first time a new all-ray industrial network based on pon. In addition, china telecommunications has launched an offensive in the areas of 6g network architecture, starland integration, near-area networks, wireless intelligence, and led the “6g network architecture and key technologies” national project。

The integration of clouds and cloud networks, with the mission of building national clouds, has led to the breakthrough of key technologies such as distributed cloud operating systems, server operating systems, the autonomous development of advanced, autonomous and controlled systems of all-trucking cloud technology and products, and has created the largest operating cloud in the world, serving more than 4. 5 million clients. With the construction of the shanghai and beijing huanca ji-cai group and the self-study of the “yolong” integrated smart services platform, which has a total of 85 eflops, sky-wing clouds are now fully moving towards a new stage in the development of intelligent clouds, issuing a white paper on the integration of china's telecommunications cloud network with 2035 technology, and providing guidelines for achieving ai-driven integration of clouds that have evolved into the original ai。

In the direction of artificial intelligence, china's telecommunications autonomously develops a system of large-scale “stellar” models covering semantics, voice, visualization and multitemporal forms, building more than 200 smart body services around areas such as intelligent services, marketing, operation and research and development, and promoting down-scaling efficiency in enterprises. At the same time, external empowerment has been accelerated, with the establishment of a demonstration base for the national enterprise “ai+” initiative, which brings together nearly 70 companies to build the ai+ application poles; high-quality hosting of the central enterprise artificial intelligence special training course to build a high-level platform for cross-fertilization; and the development of 110 large industry models, 350 industry intelligence units and over 20,000 service industry clients。

In quantum/security direction, the first distributed password system to integrate qkd and pqc was created to build a global technology-leading, large-scale quantum city area network, covering 25 cities, with more than 6 million users of quantum secrets. Under the guidance of the national laboratory, a country-wide integrated and leading superconductor "dian-287" quantum computer has been built. The security capacity pool covers 150 key cities in 31 provinces, maintains the highest market share of 10 tbps in the country against distributional refusal-of-service attacks. The largest operator-level safe hosting and operating platform (mssp) has been built。

Value release: from “internal operation” to “intellectual excellence”

The value of science, technology and innovation lies in the productivity that translates into social progress. With the unique advantage of “unnet integration”, china's telecommunications has systematically injected a technological breakthrough into the economy's acreage, creating the infinite possibility of “artificial intelligence plus”。

The breadth of empowerment is reflected in the continued lead and deep penetration of the scale of connectivity. By the first half of 2025, china's total telecommunications connection had exceeded 1. 448 billion people, serving large numbers of individuals, families and government clients. Of these, 760 million are mobile phones, broadband and sky-lighted high-resolution users, building a large user base. More critically, integrated smart connections based on 5g, light net, and network of goods have been extended from the consumer domain to the production core, with over 23,000 customized 5g customer projects, enabling 5g industry applications for 51,000 projects, covering all key industries, such as mines, ports, factories, electricity grids, etc., creating the world's largest 5g industry application “test sites” and “model areas”。

The depth of its empowerment is reflected in the multiplication and value of core business processes. In the field of industry, china's telecommunications has built a “5g full-connected plant” for three heavy jobs and hair, among others, to increase production efficiency by more than 30 per cent; in the field of medical care, the united top hospital has built a 5g remote surgery, an ais-assisted diagnostic platform to make quality medical resources available at the grass-roots level; in the field of government, a multi-country, provincial cloud platform has been established to help the government to digitize。

Its enabling model is moving from “product supply” to “ecological co-creation”. China telecommunications initiated the establishment of the “eco-stellar large modeling alliance” “quantum information industry alliance”, among others, bringing together thousands of industrial chain partners. Through open capacity, shared scenes and collaborative research and development, large industry cakes are made together。