Competing for the SME Digital Service Market, Operators Welcome the Opportunity of Transformation and Development

 Liang Zhifeng, director of the Bureau of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises of MIIT, said that SMEs are the main force in the development of the digital economy and the main battleground for digital transformation. As the main force of digital infrastructure, operators are always on the front line of promoting the digital transformation and upgrading of SMEs. Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) held a conference on the development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and Liang Zhifeng, director of the Bureau of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises of MIIT, said that SMEs are the main force in the development of digital economy and the main battlefield of digital transformation. As the main force of the digital infrastructure, operators are always on the front line of promoting the digital transformation and upgrading of SMEs. SMEs Accelerate Transformation and Help Digital Economy At present, the wave of digitalization is coming, and the new generation of digital technology represented by artificial intelligence, 5G, cloud computing and big data is changing rapidly, giving rise to a new form of economic development, the digital economy. According to the report of Avery Consulting, the market size of digital transformation services for small and medium-sized enterprises will reach 330.1 billion yuan by 2022, so it can be said that the future digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises is of great significance to promote the development of China's digital economy. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) held a press conference as early as December last year and released the "14th Five-Year Plan for Promoting the Development of SMEs", stating that it would implement the "SME Digitalization Promotion Project" to give full play to the important role of SMEs as the main force of digital economy development and continuously consolidate the important position of SMEs as the vanguard force of digital industrialization. This time, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology convened a conference on the development of SMEs and proposed to appropriately advance the construction of infrastructure, such as 5G and big data centers, and to promote the implementation of 102 major projects in the 14th Five-Year Plan, releasing the signal that China will build "new infrastructure" to support SMEs to realize digital transformation and inject new momentum into the Chinese digital economy. Operators Empower SMEs to Transform Digitally The purpose of digital transformation of SMEs is to deepen the application of digital technology in various aspects of production, operation, management and marketing, etc. As the main force of digital infrastructure, operators have been empowering the digital transformation of SMEs. In the past 2021, the three major carriers completed the task of reducing the broadband and leased line tariffs for SMEs by another 10% as proposed in the government work report delivered at the fourth session of the 13th National People's Congress. For its part, China Telecom has implemented the Warm Spring Campaign as early as 2020 to help SMEs to go to the cloud; in 2021, it will give full play to the advantages of 5G customized dedicated network to help SMEs' digital transformation, and Shanghai Telecom has launched the "SME Digital Transformation Solution" at the "Wisdom of Wings, Future of Cloud" SME Digital Transformation Solution Promotion Conference held in 2020. China Unicom, in cooperation with Ari Cloud and Tencent Cloud, launched the "Cloud Light and Enterprise Light Up China" campaign, focusing on the county market, the development of lightweight, standardized and simple delivery products and batch replication, and providing SMEs with an integrated solution of "Cloud + Network + X". For its part, China Mobile launched a digital solution to SMEs - "Mobile e-Enterprise", which provides cloud, marketing and management functions. In addition, China Mobile recently helped more than 100 SMEs in Cebu City successfully complete their "cloud recruitment" by building a "5G live studio". The future is here, operators continue to bear the burden The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of the Information and Communication Industry" proposes that the function and positioning of the information and communication industry is to build a new national digital infrastructure, provide network and information services, and fully support the economic and social development of the strategic, fundamental and pioneering industry. It shows that operators will play an indispensable role in the digital infrastructure of the whole society and should continue to help small and medium-sized enterprises realize digital transformation. On the one hand, carriers should assume the responsibility of central enterprises and make contributions in increasing the benefits to enterprises, from speeding up and reducing tariffs to helping them get to the cloud and increasing financing support. In the past 2021, China Telecom has offered preferential policies on speed and tariff reduction for broadband and leased line services for SMEs to help them transform digitally. On the other hand, carriers need to provide integrated solutions for SMEs' digital transformation to facilitate SMEs' "access to the cloud and use of data to empower intelligence". For example, China Telecom provides all-in-one information services based on cloud, network, 5G, big data and artificial intelligence for various types of SMEs such as retail, supermarkets and restaurants, helping them to transform digitally. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)