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China Telecom

China Telecom is the largest fixed line service and third largest mobile telecommunication provider in China. It is listed in Hong Kong and New York, but is controlled by the Chinese government.

Chairman / President

Ke Ruiwen

CEO / Managing Director

Li Zhengmao

CFO / Finance Director

Gao Tongqing

Industry

Telecommunications

Website

bing.com

Headquarters address

Beijing, China

Stock Code

SEHK:0728
SSE:600728

Year founded

2002

Premier Li Qiang visits a company owned by China Unicom on Tuesday. Photo: Xinhua

China's economic recovery

Premier Li makes house call to state telecoms as Beijing dials in on innovation

Message to nation’s state-owned service providers underpins China’s bid to achieve ‘high-level technological self-reliance’.

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DeepSeek

DeepSeek founder provides clue on start-up’s AI priorities in new study

19 Feb 2025 - 9:49PM

DeepSeek

DeepSeek frenzy drives AI adoption by local Chinese governments

13 Feb 2025 - 2:00PM

Honor

Honor brings on Huawei veteran to lead firm as CEO George Zhao Ming resigns

Honor’s leadership shuffle could add some degree of uncertainty to the company’s preparations for an initial public offering.

17 Jan 2025 - 9:24PM

Honor’s long-standing chief executive, George Zhao Ming, has resigned from the smartphone maker owing to personal reasons. Photo: Visual China Group via Getty Images

Semiconductors

Tech war: China advocates use of local AI chips over those from Nvidia

AI chip users on the mainland have been informally advised to prioritise local alternatives, including those from Huawei, sources say.

7 Oct 2024 - 9:00AM

Semiconductors

China Telecom say AI model with 1 trillion parameters trained with Chinese chips

The state-owned telecoms operator did not reveal what chips it used for its 1 trillion-parameter model, but it has a partnership with Huawei.

30 Sep 2024 - 10:24PM

Science

China’s new 6G standards mark significant advance in setting future framework

Proposed standards intended to aid different 6G requirements, such as the need to send secure content and keep data up to date.

13 Sep 2024 - 9:03AMvideocam

New 6G standards established by China aim to enhance communications that are immersive, ultra-reliable low-latency and AI integrated. Photo: Shutterstock Images

Video gaming

China approves 117 video games, the most in 2024, amid Black Myth: Wukong mania

The National Press and Publication Administration has licensed a total of 850 domestic titles in the first eight months of this year, compared with 609 in the same period in 2023.

31 Aug 2024 - 5:50PM

Artificial intelligence

China’s telecoms operators and gear makers tout AI ambitions at MWC Shanghai

China’s telecoms industry players are betting on the growth potential from increased demand for artificial intelligence by enterprises and consumers.

27 Jun 2024 - 2:43PM

US-China tech war

US probing China Telecom, China Mobile over internet, cloud risks

The Biden administration is investigating China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom over concerns they could exploit access to American data through their US cloud and internet businesses by providing it to Beijing.

25 Jun 2024 - 11:05AM

Huawei

US to bar China’s Huawei lab from certifying wireless equipment

Huawei’s recognition as an accredited lab expired on Tuesday and its request for an extension of its recognition was denied by US authorities.

2 May 2024 - 10:39AM

US-China relations

US agency bars Chinese telecoms carriers from offering broadband services

The FCC has cited national security concerns in revoking or denying Chinese companies’ rights to provide US telecoms services.

26 Apr 2024 - 9:35AM

Tencent

Tencent ties up with Big Telcos in latest breach of ‘walled garden’

Users of digital wallets from China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom can now make payments by scanning WeChat QR codes, in Tencent’s latest effort to improve interoperability of tech services under Beijing’s directive.

11 Nov 2023 - 6:30PM

Artificial intelligence

Shanghai backs China’s AI push with new industrial park for data

The International Data Economy Industrial Park aims to attract more than 100 leading data companies with a combined output of over 100 billion yuan by 2025.

27 Oct 2023 - 6:30PM

An aerial view of the Lingang new area in Shanghai. Photo: Xinhua

Huawei

Huawei bolsters push for 5.5G networks with operators from China, Middle East

Huawei says 5.5G can offer a tenfold increase in speed over existing networks, providing more efficient power consumption for consumer and industrial uses.

12 Oct 2023 - 12:35AM

Huawei says 5.5G offers a tenfold increase in speed over existing networks.
Photo: AP

Artificial intelligence

China’s biggest AI conference this week has lost its shine among US tech giants

Chinese tech giants are the main attraction at the three-day World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, as US firms maintain their distance.

3 Jul 2023 - 9:32PMvideocam

Alibaba

Alibaba Cloud, Fudan University set up computing platform for AI initiatives

The new Computing for the Future at Fudan platform was designed to train large language models for the purpose of scientific research.

28 Jun 2023 - 7:00AM

Huawei, Chinese telecoms firms tout 5G as life-changing tech at MWC Shanghai

Industry executives say 5G has changed the lives of its users, enabling new capabilities such as live-streaming e-commerce from rural farmland.

27 Jun 2023 - 11:00PMvideocam

A staff member installing equipment on a 5G base station in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region. Photo: Xinhua

China technology

MWC Shanghai returns as in-person event after 2-year pandemic hiatus

MWC Shanghai, the regional edition of the world’s largest mobile communications industry trade show, marks its first decade in China this year.

25 Jun 2023 - 8:19PM

Crime in China

Block overseas calls: Chinese police issue ‘urgent reminder’ in anti-fraud drive

Flurry of public appeals is part of drive to combat rampant online fraud by scaling down mobile users’ exposure to platforms seen as hard to police.

8 Jun 2023 - 7:00PMvideocam

Artificial intelligence

China Telecom plans huge computing centre in Shanghai’s hi-tech zone

Investment comes as development of AI technology, especially evident in the recent frenzy around ChatGPT-like services, is fuelling demand for computational power.

2 Jun 2023 - 9:00PM

China Telecom to invest in large computing centre in Shanghai. Photo: SCMP/ Tom Wang

China stock market

Price gap for dual-listed stocks hits 5-month high amid SOE, AI euphoria

The yuan-traded shares of 150 dual-listed companies commanded a 42 per cent premium over their Hong Kong-listed shares this month, versus a 10-year average of 26 per cent.

8 May 2023 - 4:22PM

A worker maintains equipment at a China Mobile data centre in Zhongwei City, northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, in May 2019. Photo: Xinhua

Artificial intelligence

China’s state telecoms giant unveils own ChatGPT-like service, joining AI race

China Telecom’s cloud unit CTYun is testing self-developed large language models with plans to launch a service ‘in the near future’.

28 Apr 2023 - 5:00PM

China to launch early 6G applications by 2025 ahead of 2030 commercial roll-out

China Unicom, the country’s third-largest wireless network operator, expects to complete technical research and launch early ‘application scenarios’ for 6G mobile technology by 2025.

25 Mar 2023 - 6:49PM

China stock market

World’s largest phone network challenges distiller as China’s most valued stock

China Mobile’s market capitalisation is 2.1 trillion yuan (US$304.8 billion), second only to Kweichow Moutai’s 2.2 trillion yuan, as traders bet the mobile-network operator will benefit from Beijing’s plan to digitise the economy.

15 Mar 2023 - 6:09PM

People pass a China Mobile booth at the 2023 Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, on March 1, 2023. Photo: Xinhua

China stock market

China’s telcos turn world beaters in rare stock re-rating amid tech ambitions

China’s three telecom operators, panned as value destroyers in stock markets, are no longer market laggards. Stock returns this year are among the best in the world. Here’s why.

6 Mar 2023 - 7:00AMvideocam

People learn about 5G technology at the China Telecom booth at the World Internet Conference in eastern Zhejiang province in November 2020. Photo: Xinhua

Alibaba

Alibaba’s cloud services business under spotlight as revenue growth slows

Alibaba Cloud posted a 3 per cent year-on-year revenue increase in the December quarter, marking the subsidiary’s slowest growth last year.

24 Feb 2023 - 6:57PM

Shenzhen

Shenzhen aims for fastest internet speed in China with 5G network expansion

The southern tech hub’s digital infrastructure action plan involves the buildout of 10,000 new 5G base stations this year.

13 Feb 2023 - 7:00PMvideocam

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