Create the first service of "China Unicom Data".Among the three major operators, China Unicom is the first operator to bring big data to the level of strategic significance. Among China Unicom's five main businesses, "Big Connectivity", "Big Computing", "Big Data", "Big Application" and "Big Security", the main business of big data plays a key role in China Unicom's deepening of big data integration and application innovation, improving industrial supply capacity and industry empowerment effect, and further providing momentum for the digital economy to build the first service of "China Unicom Data". Strengthen your data infrastructureAs a new factor of production, data can be replicated, shared, massively supplied, and has a special endowment of low marginal cost, which has promoted the profound transformation, optimization and reorganization of traditional factors of production, and has become a new means of production for economic and social development. From the perspective of releasing the value of data elements, data infrastructure provides integrated data aggregation, processing, and circulation capabilities to the society with the support of network, computing power and other facilities.
China Unicom continues to strengthen the construction of data infrastructure, accelerate the construction of 5G, broadband, government and enterprise, and computing power networks, and build a solid digital foundation for the digital economy. As of the first half of 2023, China Unicom has built more than 1.15 million 5G mid-frequency base stations, cities, counties and towns have fully equipped with gigabit capabilities, and all 335 local networks across the country have covered government and enterprise boutique networks. In terms of satellite communications, we will build an integrated development of cellular networks and satellite networks, seamless coverage of the whole domain, organic combination of "communication, guidance and remote communication", and a deep integration of space-ground communication infrastructure with ubiquitous connection in all scenarios, so as to provide more convenient and accurate capabilities for the public and the industry to gather data elements. In terms of cloud computing, China Unicom has built a "safe and reliable, cloud-network integration, digital and intelligent integration, exclusive customization, and multi-cloud collaboration" Unicom cloud platform, covering more than 200 cities in one city and one pool, and the scale of IDC racks exceeds 380,000. Focusing on mining the characteristics of the industry, realizing the multi-state of the cloud under a unified architecture, and creating seven "scenario clouds" such as the Internet of Things perception cloud, the data sea storage cloud, and the 5G edge cloud, forming a wealth of subdivided scenario solutions, and comprehensively empowering the digital transformation of the industry. We will continue to enrich cloud resource reserves to fully meet customers' cloud migration needs in all scenarios. In terms of computing power connection, China Unicom continues to deepen its high-quality computing power network, and combined with the "5+4+31+X" computing resource layout, China Unicom has improved its multi-level architecture and made its resource supply capacity more abundant. Adopt the new type of g654.e-Optical Cable: Build a new eight vertical and eight horizontal backbones that run through the east and west, and through the north and south, and efficiently and directly reach the optical cable networkBuild the country's largest 400G OTN experimental network and create an "ultra-fast dedicated lane".The average latency of domestic Internet access is less than 29ms, and the industry continues to leadIt has built an integrated orchestration and scheduling platform for computing and networking, and has realized the unified management and scheduling of diverse ubiquitous computing power of more than 20 cloud providers, more than 350 internal and external cloud pools, and DCs. It is understood that by 2025, China Unicom will realize the integrated service capability of "general computing + intelligent computing + supercomputing" led by intelligent computing, build a new integrated computing and network infrastructure with low latency and certainty, and provide intelligent computing and network integration orchestration and scheduling services. It provides efficient, convenient, safe and reliable data element storage, calculation, and analysis, and promotes higher efficiency and intelligence in data processing.
Lay out the big data capability system
China Unicom's leading advantage in data elements lies in the fact that it is the industry's earliest operator with centralized data and the first intensive operation, integrating artificial intelligence and blockchain technology to establish a complete big data capability system. Since the beginning of this year, breakthroughs have been made in generative AI technology, and operators have entered the AI large model track. The latest achievements of the large model will also promote the digital transformation and intelligent upgrading of thousands of industries empowered by data elements. China Unicom has actively deployed research in the field of large models, and independently developed Unicom's language large model and multi-modal large model with over 10 billion parameters, as well as 8 industry large models for internal and external business scenarios. It will build a set of basic large models with 100-billion-level language models and trillion-level multimodal models as the core, a large model native platform with full-process building capabilities, and more than 20 types of industry scenario large models. 
Since the establishment of the main responsibility and main business of big data, China Unicom has made remarkable achievements in big data. The first batch passed the DCMM Level 5 assessment and has a leading data governance system. Guided by the release of the value of data elements, China Unicom upgraded the integration and innovation capabilities of the digital intelligence chain, aggregated data governance, data security, and data visualization service capabilities, improved the product system, and released the "information governance" government affairs big data platform, and 11 capabilities were shortlisted for the data governance industry map. In the first three quarters of 2023, China Unicom's big data business revenue reached 406.7 billion yuan, an increase of 46 percent year-on-year7%。
In the fields of digital **, digital finance, smart cultural tourism, data security, etc., China Unicom focuses on scenario needs and enriches key industry applications, realizes the scale replication of provincial and municipal benchmark projects, and helps build a digital society. Its big data business has maintained rapid development, its market share continues to lead the industry, and its blockchain patent reserve ranks first among central enterprises. Unleash the value of data elements
At the product level, China Unicom has built the "Unicom Data - Integrated Data Asset Management Platform", which can still ensure high stability and excellent efficiency under the processing of massive data in complex scenarios. The platform provides data collection, data development, data governance, data services, data applications and other data life cycle management tools, which can achieve convenient integrated operation and management, and the visual page can greatly reduce the user's data use cost and improve the efficiency of data use.
The integrated data security management and control service platform is a set of platform-level data security risk prevention and audit analysis products, the platform takes data assets as the core, conducts all-round analysis and audit based on human behavior, and can automatically discover violations and risk operations in massive logs, covering security management and control services from collection, transmission, storage, processing, exchange, and destruction.
In terms of practice, the "first-class big data center data center project" built by China Unicom completed the deployment and delivery of the platform in just one month, laying a good foundation for the steady progress of subsequent data resource governance. Under the guidance of the People's Bank of Wuxi, the "Jinyi Chain" project undertaken by China Unicom uses the integration of blockchain and privacy computing to build a trusted data interconnection network across 20 commercial banks, telecom operators, financial regulatory departments, public security and other organizations under the premise of ensuring privacy and data security, realizing high-speed, stable, safe and credible data sharing.
In terms of data governance services, China Unicom's data governance solutions cover more than 10 aspects such as data governance, quality, architecture, standards, and security. Through the implementation of data governance operation and audit, improve the efficiency of data operation and management, implement security management measures, promote the revitalization of digital assets, and form a data management idea with internal control and internal audit as the main line through the establishment of an internal control system for the whole life cycle of data and a quantifiable closed-loop evaluation system.
In the future, China Unicom will continue to deepen its efforts in the field of data governance, adhere to the principle of "common platform, common capability, common technology stack, and common R&D system", explore the "five elements" and "seven-step method" data governance concepts, and empower customers to realize various digital intelligence scenarios such as smart decision-making, smart operation, and smart production.
It is understood that in order to accelerate the development of strategic emerging industries and accelerate the formation of new quality productivity, by 2025, China Unicom will build a data element enterprise base capability system, digital intelligence chain integration and development, achieve PB-level data daily processing capacity and trillion-level data real-time analysis capabilities, and become a reliable third party for data operation in key national industries.
With data elements as the core, China Unicom will have a great future by integrating and innovating technologies such as big data, blockchain, and artificial intelligence, so that the "digital intelligence chain" can form a combination to empower the digital transformation of thousands of industries and activate the value of data elements.
Written by: Cui LiangliangEditor: blog postGuidance: Xin Wen
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