Founded in 1998, China Telecom Corporation Limited has gone through 20 years of development, becoming one of the worlds leading communications groups. The Group adheres to its mission of “innovation, quality and sharing”, and is committed to providing digital services, products and applications for over 1 billion users. By the end of 2017, the Groups total assets amounted to RMB 845.8 billion.
In line with its strategic focus on “User Interests” and “Win-Win Cooperation”, the Group is dedicated to corporate-level reform, developing new businesses and providing better experiences to users. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the Group advanced its transformation to leverage the power of digitalization, optimized its operating systems, and established itself as a key player in the digitalization of the Chinese economy.
As an important thrust of the nations “Internet Plus” strategy, the Group launched a three-year platform construction plan, integrated resources and leveraged its technological capabilities to roll out a series of advanced digital services. These services included the China Telecom 5G InnovaTram and the China Telecom Intelligent Customer Service Platform. By the end of 2017, the Group had built a “Cloud”, successfully digitalizing its existing voice, data and video communication services, as well as its integrated digital services for users.
The Group has set up an innovation platform which integrates digital businesses such as “Cloud”, “Big Data” and “Internet of Things”, to lead technological development and bring along deep transformation and upgrading of the ICT business. The Group has launched the 4G+ IDC (Internet Data Center), introduced large bandwidth, high quality hosting services, and upgraded its public cloud infrastructure, cloud communication platform and virtualization technology.
In addition, the Group has made strategic investments in artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, aiming to meet the user needs with more personalized services and roll out better contents. On June 2017, the Group launched the “China Telecom AI Living Lab” in Beijing, equipped with a high-end self-driving platform and AI Cloud Computing platform.
The Group also launched global business operations, established innovative business platforms, taken part in international talent exchanges and built a multi-level and multi-field platform for technological exchanges and cooperation.
The Group has built strong credibility with its customers and strategic partners, by delivering high-quality and reliable services and consistent efforts to maintain an excellent service level.
On “quality first” as its corporate slogan, the Group has established a comprehensive service philosophy and continuously improved user experience with top-level technologies and solutions. Its network operations center and business application units have both won “China Quality Award” and “China Quality Star” awards.
The Group takes corporate citizenship seriously and actively works to expand the boundaries of its online products, by ensuring safe online activities. The Group also promotes environmental and social awareness, invest in clean energy, reduce carbon emissions and supports public welfare activities. In 2017, the Group donated more than RMB 170 million to various charities and to improve the lives of those in need.
The Group is committed to its commitment to sustainable development and the continuous progress of social “Internet Plus”. In the future, the Group will continue to make significant investments in innovation and advanced technologies, promote digital transformation and build an ICT platform to best serve the interests of its users.
