On November 7, ZTE Corporation hosted its 2025 Global Supplier Partners Conference in Shenzhen under the theme "Smart Win, Towards the Future." The event brought together numerous strategic partners, core suppliers, and senior executives to discuss topics such as digital economy development, AI technology and intelligent computing, terminal innovation, and supply chain collaboration.
In his opening speech, ZTE President Xu Ziyang highlighted that 2025 marks the company's 40th anniversary. Despite a complex and volatile global environment, opportunities coexist with challenges. ZTE remains strategically focused on its dual-driver approach of "connectivity + computing power," leveraging AI's transformative potential in infrastructure, industry applications, and end-devices. Looking ahead, Xu emphasized ZTE's commitment to embracing the AI-driven wave of global intelligence, collaborating with partners to explore connectivity upgrades, computing-network synergy, and digital-physical integration, driving society toward greater efficiency, sustainability, and inclusivity.
Xie Junshi, Executive Vice President and COO of ZTE, outlined the company’s strategic evolution over the past four decades and shared insights on AI-driven industrial upgrades. He noted that exponential growth in inference demand will shift business models from "Bit" to "Token," making AI a definitive force in reshaping industries. ZTE will leverage its expertise in large-scale CT engineering, deepen chip-software-network synergy, and collaborate with partners to strengthen communication infrastructure, accelerate computing upgrades, pioneer home AI solutions, and redefine smart terminals.
Cui Li, Chief Development Officer, shared ZTE’s vision in "Connecting the World Digitally, Enabling Intelligence for the Future," emphasizing the enduring role of networks, computing power, and intelligence as foundational pillars. ZTE’s action-oriented approach prioritizes open decoupling, network-enhanced computing, and balanced training-inference capabilities, fostering an open ecosystem to empower digital transformation across industries.
Ni Fei, Senior Vice President and Head of Terminal Business, reviewed ZTE’s 2025 achievements and outlined 2026 strategies, focusing on multi-form AI terminals to build all-scenario smart ecosystems for individuals and households.
Yang Jianming, Senior Vice President of Supply Chain, highlighted ZTE’s three-pronged strategy to address global supply chain challenges: enhancing core competitiveness with resilient systems, AI-driven self-optimizing supply chains, and fostering a reliable alliance for collaborative success.
Under the banner "Smart Win, Towards the Future," ZTE will continue strengthening its supply chain, leveraging AI for efficiency, and driving industry-wide innovation to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO). By fostering long-term, win-win partnerships, ZTE aims to support sustainable growth for itself and its partners, seizing opportunities in digital-physical integration to lay the foundation for an intelligent society.