Data show that in 2018 China's total retail sales of social consumer goods reached 38.1 trillion yuan. China's retail industry is also developing in a more diversified direction. Shanghai Unicom actively follows the market demand to actively build core capabilities around new retail and launch smart store solutions , To help chain store customers create a series of benchmarking projects, a solid first step in the new business field.

       In order to better expand the market and enable new business, the afternoon of August 22, 2019, Shanghai Unicom Smart Business Partner Conference and Smart Store Cloud Platform Promotion Meeting was successfully held in Changning Unicom Building. The event was co-sponsored by the sales center of Shanghai Unicom's commerce and trade industry and China Unicom (Shanghai) Industrial Internet Co., Ltd., and invited more than 60 professional guests and partners from the commerce and trade industry. At the meeting, we discussed how to empower new business and build a smart business ecosystem. The atmosphere was warm.

      Ms. Dai Ling, deputy general manager of Shanghai Unicom, Ms. Chen Yanfen, general manager of China Unicom (Shanghai) Industrial Internet Co., Ltd., and Mr. Gao Song, general manager of Shanghai Unicom Commerce and Industry Sales Center attended the forum and made important speeches.

      Ms. Dai Ling, deputy general manager of Shanghai Unicom, stressed that it is of great strategic significance and broad market space to promote the development of new commerce and trade. Relying on new driving forces such as cloud computing, big data, the Internet of Things, and smart applications, Shanghai Unicom uses platform services to achieve application aggregation, industrial integration, regional collaboration, and data openness, and quickly deploy industries and increase market size. Now it is in the 5G window period, striving to join the "boat" of "5G + AI", so that new retail and new formats have more development and progress, establish a partner ecosystem, and jointly promote the upgrade of traditional stores to smart stores.

      Ms. Chen Yanfen, the general manager of Unicom (Shanghai) Industrial Internet Co., Ltd. mentioned that Shanghai Unicom is committed to becoming a "new operator of smart stores", realizing big platforms, big operations and services, helping new businesses, and enabling smart stores. At the same time, we call on partners to jointly build an innovation alliance, build a business paradigm, share high-quality resources, and win a broad market, and cooperate to open up and build a smart business ecosystem.

     Mr. Gao Song, the general manager of Shanghai Unicom's commerce and industry sales center, introduced Shanghai Unicom's new commerce and trade development strategic plan. Starting from new retail market insights and industry trends, China's retail industry is developing in a diversified direction, and discusses the trend of digital store operation and upgrading. Gao Song always proposed the entry point of the industry pattern-the launch of the smart store cloud platform, and pointed out that Shanghai Unicom is the strategic window of opportunity to optimize the pattern in the next 5 years. It needs to integrate the advantages of Unicom's resources and innovation capabilities, interoperability, and technology to build smart stores,application ecology.

Taking advantage of the "five new" China Unicom, the slogan of "new platforms, new products, new ecology, new operations to help new commerce and trade" has also been proposed in the field of smart business. Shanghai Unicom will focus on four core capabilities, namely: platform construction, application aggregation , Ecological construction, operation services.

       An authorization ceremony was held at the forum site, and the partners of the audience were issued with authorization certificates and authorized nameplates, and then a round table discussion was held. During the partner exchange, Mr. Jianhua Liu, the general manager of our company, introduced the product capabilities of Head Weblink Company, talked about smart business, and sought better cooperation in the future.

Finally, Mr. Zhu Yijian, the deputy general manager of China Unicom (Shanghai) Industrial Internet Co., Ltd. made a concluding speech and proposed to take the "5G + AI" new technology as an opportunity to seize the opportunity of restructuring the new business format, and join the industry's outstanding partners to jointly build 5G + AI smart business application scenarios, work together to create a new future for smart business.

       Shanghai Unicom welcomes in-depth cooperation with excellent partners, combining Unicom's superior customer resources, innovative technical resources, operation and maintenance resources, customer service resources, etc., insisting on open sharing and providing flexible cooperation methods and a good cooperation environment for industry chain partners. Building a Smart Business Ecosystem Together!