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5 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Huawei Showcases latest Broadband, Cloud and Intelligent Solutions at Huawei Global Rail Summit 2025
BANGKOK, June 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Huawei, a global leader in ICT solutions and Title Sponsor of Asia Pacific Rail 2025, showcased its latest broadband, cloud, and intelligent railway technologies at the largest rail event in the Asia-Pacific region. Under the theme "Go Broadband, Go Cloud, Go Intelligent," Huawei's booth attracted more than 600 international and regional rail industry stakeholders. As part of the event, Huawei also hosted the Huawei Global Rail Summit 2025, themed "Accelerating Rail Intelligence," which brought together global rail leaders, policymakers, customers, and partners to explore the future of smart rail transport. In his opening address, Ma Yue, Vice President of Huawei and CEO of Huawei Smart Transportation BU, emphasized the importance of AI and data in the future of rail. "The rail industry will fully embrace AI, large-scale models, and big data, leveraging data as the core productivity driver to enhance passenger/freight efficiency and service experiences, evolving from office informatization to full-service intelligence," he said. David Xu, Vice President of Huawei Smart Transportation BU highlighted in his keynote speech, "Nowadays, 5G, cloud, and AI are rapidly changing every aspect of our society. Digital technologies have become a key driver for socio-economic development, including reshaping rail transit systems to improve safety, efficiency, and user experience." Kevin Cheng, Vice President of the at Huawei Asia-Pacific Government and Enterprise Sales Department, delivered a welcome speech, stating, "Robust transport infrastructure lays the foundation for our region's long-term prosperity. We work closely with rail operators to deliver smart and intelligent solutions to strengthen national connectivity, fuel regional development, lower operating costs, and drive the prosperity of industries, cities, and economies along the way." Nelson Huang, Director of Rail Business at Huawei Smart Transportation BU, noted that ICT is now the primary engine behind rail innovation. "Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are the key driver enabling the rail transit industry to achieve broadband, cloud-based, and AI-driven transformation. By building high-speed broadband networks, deploying cloud computing platforms, and applying artificial intelligence, ICT empowers the rail transit industry to enhance operational efficiency, optimize passenger experience, and achieve smarter development." Elvis Zhu, Director of Marketing of Huawei Enterprise Wireless Domain shared in his presentation, "FRMCS is the next generation global train-to-ground wireless communication standard. The FRMCS-T standard based on the LTE mobile communication system was officially released in mid-2024. We can now use the LTE system to meet the commercial FRMCS needs. The commercial era of FRMCS has arrived." Rail operators and experts from the region shared their progress toward intelligent transformation. Datuk Dr. Mohd Yusoff Sulaiman, President of the Malaysia Rail Industry Corporation (MARIC), commented, "As a technology partner and a member of MARIC, Huawei is able to work with Malaysia to deliver the first Future Rail Mobile Communication Systems (FRMCS) in South-East Asia. We look forward to more collaborations with Huawei to develop more opportunities for system integration with the local companies." Sanyawit Aphichatapong, Deputy Chief of the Signalling & Telecommunication Department at the State Railway of Thailand, shared insights into their ongoing collaboration with Huawei. "SRT is collaborating with Huawei to deploy an advanced Optical Transport Network and IP network solution for future rail systems. Leveraging Huawei's cutting-edge technology, the network will deliver ultra-high bandwidth, low latency, and unmatched reliability for rail communications." Lee Yam Lim, Chief Executive Officer of Rail Business and Head of the Downtown Line at SBS Transit Rail Pte Ltd, highlighted the role of partnerships in technological transformation. "Harnessing technology is not about automation alone—it's about building trust through partnership. By collaborating with technology leaders like Huawei, we're unlocking new possibilities in data-driven rail operations—making maintenance and travel more intelligent, adaptive, and future-ready," he said. Ir. Jasbinder Singh from IRSE Malaysia spoke under the theme "Is it a Technology or Specification? — Malaysian Adoption," and noted, "FRMCS is the accelerator of the digital rail to the future." Dr. Guo Wentao, CTO of Beijing Railway Institute of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering (BRI) shared in his representation, "The intelligent inspection robots, developed by BRI and Huawei jointly, enhance maintenance efficiency and inspection quality significantly. BRI is looking forward to deepening collaborative innovation with industry partners to build an open and shared digital ecosystem for railway." Wang Jun, Solution Director at China Railway Signal & Communication Co., Ltd (CRSC), shared the company's latest innovation: "CRSC's Low-Altitude Intelligent Inspection System offers a smart, safe, and cost-effective solution for railway infrastructure monitoring. Powered by UAVs, AI, big data, and cloud platforms, the system enables real-time image analysis, instant anomaly detection, and fully automated end-to-end operations." Huawei unveiled two new solutions at the event: Smart Railway Yard & Station Solution and and Fiber Sensing: Small Perimeter Inspection Solution. These additions enhance Huawei's already comprehensive rail technology portfolio, which spans urban rail cloud, smart passenger transport, operations and maintenance, and perimeter detection. The newly introduced Smart Railway Perimeter Protection Solution integrates multi-dimensional sensing, AI, and multi-technology convergence. It achieves near-zero missed alarms, ultra-low false alarms, and boosts inspection efficiency by 50%. To date, Huawei's rail solutions have been deployed across more than 150,000 kilometers of railway lines and over 300 urban rail routes in 70+ cities worldwide, reinforcing the company's ongoing commitment to powering the future of safe, smart, and connected rail transport. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Huawei
ABC News
17-05-2025
- Business
- ABC News
Manufacturers in China rush back to work to fulfil US orders amid 90-day reciprocal tariff pause
阅读中文版 David Xu felt relieved when his jigsaw puzzle factory in China resumed production of an order worth half-a-million US dollars. The order for 100,000 puzzles from an American client had been suspended at the height of the US-China tariff war. But after the Trump administration and Beijing struck a deal last week to slash and pause reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, the machines in his factory were turned back on. "Two night shifts are scheduled [every night]," Mr Xu said in a video posted on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok. "We are aiming to get these [puzzles] shipped to the US within 90 days." Mr Xu told the ABC he opened his factory in the manufacturing hub of Dongguan in Guangdong province in 2008, and it relied on business from overseas customers. Seventy per cent of sales came from the US and the puzzles go to suppliers of major American corporations such as Disney and DC Comics, he said. "That's why, from the bottom of our hearts, we'd like to cooperate with the US," he said. "I think there is no winner or loser in this [trade] war." Other businesses in China have also rushed back to work to make the most of the 90-day pause. In Shanghai, a knitted clothing and bed linen manufacturer restarted its factory at 6am the day after the pause was announced. The business owner told a local Chinese television station she hoped to get a backlog of 300,000 knitted clothing pieces shipped to the US within the 90 days. "I was so happy to hear the news, we rushed to get in touch with the foreign partners on Monday night. A big weight is off my mind," said Yu Jianfen. In Shenzhen, the director of a Chinese beauty and cosmetics company told state-owned media one of their departments worked overnight to contact American customers to get business running again. "The US side asked us to expedite the shipment because they might be running out of stock," one employee said. While the reciprocal tariff pause has been welcomed by many manufacturers, the US-China trade war has already cost some businesses too much. A toy manufacturer based in China that has operated for 60 years is planning to close. Michelle, the business owner, said US customers stopped placing orders when the Trump administration first announced tariffs on China. She said the US clients, who the business relied on, also refused to make the final payments on existing orders. Twelve large containers of toys now sit without purpose in the warehouse. The toy business had received some orders after the pause was announced, but not enough for Michelle to want to continue the business. Michelle, who preferred to only use her first name, said she planned to retire after shutting down her factory and laying off 200 staff. Mr Xu, the owner of the puzzle factory, said when the tariff war started escalating, his customers had urged him to move his factory to Vietnam. But he started planning to open a factory in Thailand instead, and was also preparing to reduce his workforce in China by half. His plans are currently on pause, but said he will push ahead if the tariff war escalates again. "That way, if there are any changes in three months or longer, we can avoid some risks," he said. "It's our last resort, [but] with the political instability, many people in our industry are moving." Alfred Wu, a China analyst from the National University of Singapore, said many businesses in China had already moved their factories to countries in South-East Asia and more were considering doing the same. "This will be more common in the future," said Dr Wu. "The sheer volume of Chinese manufacturing could have a huge impact on South-East Asia, hitting old production lines in those countries." However, Dr Wu added that ramifications on manufacturers in those countries was yet to be seen. Henry Zhou, an e-commerce entrepreneur based in Brisbane, has also felt the impacts of the US-China tariff war. Mr Zhou buys products made in China on behalf of online platforms like Amazon, which are then sold to customers in Australia and the US. Mr Zhou said the levies on shipping costs were even higher than they had been during the pandemic. "Many people just stopped shipping, because no-one will buy those products if sellers add the additional cost directly to the price, it's just too expensive," he said. After the tariff pause was announced, the Trump administration also reduced tariffs on small parcels sent from mainland China and Hong Kong. Mr Zhou welcomed all the recent trade developments and remained optimistic about the future. "The relationship between China and the US is just like a thick book," he said. "There may be a few good pages and a few bad pages, but you can hardly tear the book apart. "The volume of trade between China and the US is simply too large and involves too many people." Read the story in Chinese: 阅读中文版
