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SHENZHEN, China, Oct. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of

telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the mobile

internet, today announced that Ms. Chen Zhiping, Vice President and General

Manager of the Branding Department at ZTE, has delivered a keynote speech

entitled "A Digital Road to Carbon Neutrality" and shared how ZTE can help

companies in multiple industries to save energy, reduce emissions and finally

promote the realization of society's goal of carbon neutrality through ZTE's

digital technology innovation.

"To meet the goals and challenges of energy saving and emission reduction in

the whole industry, we believe that digitalization will help traditional

industries," said Ms. Chen.

As a driver of the digital economy, ZTE uses technological innovation to pave

the green boulevard for the digital economy, and promotes the achievement of

the dual-carbon goal through green operations, green supply chains, green ICT

Infrastructure, and green industry.

The following is a compilation of Ms. Chen's speech:

In 2020, apart from COVID-19 spreading around the world, did you feel that the

temperature is a bit unusual? In June 2020, a Siberian town in the Arctic

Circle reached a high temperature of 38 degrees! This is the highest

temperature ever recorded in the Arctic circle. If the global temperature rise

is controlled within 1.5 degrees, a large number of losses and risks caused by

climate change will be avoided.

Currently, carbon neutrality has become a global consensus.

By June 2021, 137 countries have proposed a carbon neutralization target and

more than 1200 enterprises have committed to join SBTi, with global ICT giants

taking the lead in setting strategic zero carbon objectives. China has

announced carbon emission commitments and targets.

Digital technology plays a key role in achieving the goal of carbon neutrality

If we want to achieve the goal of global carbon neutrality, traditional

industries are facing a greater challenge of reducing consumption. The ICT

industry accounts for 2% of total carbon emissions in the world every year.

With the growth of digital infrastructure deployment, ICT emission reduction

also faces considerable challenges. The ITU (International Telecommunication

Union) announced that the ICT industry would reduce emissions by 45% by 2030.

With the acceleration of digital transformation, the technologies represented

by 5G, big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence have been

continuously improved, and digital technologies are more widely used in all

walks of life.

We can improve the efficiency of resource allocation and production and life

through efficient data connections, storage, calculations and applications.

Many research data show that digital technology can help other industries

reduce carbon emissions by more than 10 times compared to the ICT industry's

own carbon emissions. It can be seen that digital technology plays a key role

in achieving the goal of carbon neutrality.

Set as an example, ZTE takes a green development path in digital transformation

As a positive practitioner of green development, ZTE promotes environmental

protection management in the office and production operations to reduce the

consumption of natural resources.

The company has taken a variety of measures to reduce corporate carbon

emissions, such as pursuing green production, and conserving resources and

energy through continuous transformation of production processes.

Through production process optimization (high temperature aging), annual power

saving exceeds 30 million kWh. We started carbon footprint tracking management

of the whole product life cycle. We promote smart air conditioners and smart

lighting to reduce electricity consumption while ensuring a comfortable working

environment for employees. Through green photovoltaic power generation, annual

electricity output has exceeded 3 million kWh. In addition, the company works

with more than 160 global environmental service providers to build a global

green cycle network.

Our carbon target also depends on the decarbonization process of upstream

products and services. We are working together with upstream and downstream

partners to jointly achieve energy saving and emission reduction in material

selection, material recycling, and logistics.

So far, more than 40 leading suppliers have developed carbon reduction

strategic plans. Most suppliers will come from partners with targeted

commitments in the next 5 to 10 years. Procurement management actively promotes

carbon emissions of suppliers in many ways. It continuously improves low-carbon

and sustainable development competitiveness of our supply chain.

Green digital infrastructure helps operators build low-carbon networks

For digital infrastructure, wireless sites and data centers occupy the largest

proportion of energy consumption. Carbon emissions can be reduced by

introducing green power, building green sites, and green data centers.

Specifically, in the process of building the energy infrastructure of the

communication network, ZTE has proposed a new "zero-carbon" energy network with

the concept of "green, efficient, intelligent and reliable" to increase the

proportion of green energy applications.

With the annual increase of communication traffic and the large-scale

deployment of 5G, the proportion of site energy consumption to the energy

consumption of the whole network exceeds 45%, which is the key to reduce

emissions.

As a leading ICT equipment supplier, ZTE Corporation has incorporated the

concept of low-carbon and environmental protection into the design of site

products and the implementation of solutions to continuously output value for

the creation of green sites.

With the development of various data services and cloud services, data centers

are also giants of energy consumption, including IT equipment, cooling

equipment, power supply and distribution systems and lighting equipment with

the IT equipment and cooling equipment alone accounting for 80% of energy

consumption. Equipped with ZTE's ZEGO solution, it can solve the problem of

equipment energy consumption.

At present, the UniSite, PowerPilot, and iEnergy solutions proposed by ZTE

through digital practice have been widely used in the networks of global

operators, helping them to achieve energy saving and consumption reduction.

In Spain, ZTE deployed the UniSite+ solution, which is the simplest site

solution in the current industry. It reduces radio units by 60% and saves power

consumption by 30% compared with traditional solutions.

In Malaysia, the PowerPilot AI energy saving solution was successfully

launched, saving 7 million kWh of power annually.

In partnership with its clients, ZTE built Asia's largest micro-module

intelligent data center in Shenzhen's Pingshan District with power saving

exceeding 60 million kWh each year.

Together with customers and partners empowering multiple industries to save

energy and reduce emissions

Over the past two years, ZTE has been collaborating with operators and

industry-leading companies to explore green and energy-saving application

scenarios in various industries and extract innovative applications that can be

replicated on a large scale.

-To introduce green energy, the China Southern Power Grid, together with China

Mobile and ZTE, built the largest demonstration zone for a 5G smart grid in

China in Nansha District, Guangzhou. Services greatly reduce the impact of new

energy access on the power grid. The reliability of renewable energy

transmission will be increased four times in the future.

-In the energy-intensive smelting industry, ZTE and Aluminum Corporation of

China successfully explored 5G applications, saving more than 90 million kWh of

electricity each year.

-For the transportation industry, ZTE and Guangzhou Mobile released the world's

first 5G smart transportation demonstration city, including smart high-speed

rail, smart subway, 5G bus dispatching line, 5G intelligent network linkage,

and 5G road policy inspection. The overall dispatching efficiency is increased

by 10%.

Additionally, in the manufacturing industry, ZTE built a global 5G smart

factory in Binjiang, Nanjing, which is a demonstration factory for "Intelligent

Manufacturing Powered by 5G". It can reduce energy consumption by 40%, creating

a demonstration sample of energy saving and emission reduction for advanced

manufacturing.

Currently, ZTE and its partners continue to extensively carry out 5G+

innovative green practices, and have implemented more than 60 demonstration

projects worldwide.

ZTE actively implements the carbon neutralization strategy, promotes energy

saving and emission reduction in enterprise production and operation, helps

operators in building end-to-end green low carbon networks, and actively

empowers vertical industries to achieve energy saving and emission reduction.

By far, ZTE has deployed more than 500 green 5G innovation patents, increasing

efficiency and reducing consumption by technological innovation, and building

green networks.

In the future, ZTE will continue to research new energy, new materials, and new

components to make breakthroughs in key technologies, laying a solid technical

foundation for the Green ICT Infrastructure, and enhancing the depth and

breadth of digital technologies for traditional high-energy industries. In

addition, ZTE will contribute to improving efficiency, saving energy, and

reducing consumption in various industries, and helping to achieve the carbon

neutralization goals of the whole society.

Achieving the goal of carbon neutrality requires a long-term process and the

joint efforts of all sectors of the industry. ZTE, in collaboration with global

partners, has been committed to building a green digital boulevard with ICT

technology innovations for a promising future.  

Media Contacts:

Margaret Ma

ZTE Corporation

Tel: +86 755 26775189

Email: ma.gaili@zte.com.cn

Source: ZTE Corporation

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