2020-08-18
HIGHLIGHTS
Operating revenue amounted to approximately RMB2,504.1 million, up by 1.0%.
Revenue from new businesses amounted to approximately RMB229.7 million, up by 77.7%.
Gross profit amounted to approximately RMB893.7 million, up by 2.9%, and gross profit margin amounted to 35.7%,
representing an increase of 0.7 percentage point, where the profitability continued to improve.
Net profit amounted to approximately RMB232.6 million, up by 228.8%, and net profit margin was approximately 9.3%, representing an increase of 6.4 percentage points.
Adjusted net profit amounted to approximately RMB280.4 million, up by 10.1%, and adjusted net profit margin was approximately 11.2%, representing an increase of 0.9 percentage point.
On 14 August 2020, the Company has been selected as a constituent of each of Hang Seng Composite Index, Hang Seng Stock Connect Hong Kong Index and Hang Seng Internet & Information Technology Index, etc., changes of which will take effect on 7 September 2020.
(18
August 2020 - Hong Kong) - AsiaInfo Technologies Limited (“AsiaInfo” or
the “Company”, together with its subsidiaries, the “Group”, stock code:
1675.HK) announces its audited consolidated interim results for the six
months ended 30 June 2020 (the “Reporting Period”).
During the
first half of 2020, despite that the Company’s operating performance was
running under pressure resulting from the significant impact on the
overall signed orders and deferral in construction progress due to the
COVID-19 outbreak impact, however, driven by the rapid development of
the emerging businesses, the operating revenue amounted to approximately
RMB2,504.1 million, up by 1.0%. Among which, revenue from the Emerging
Businesses amounted to approximately RMB229.7 million, up by 77.7% (of
which, revenue from the OSS business amounted to approximately RMB55.7
million, up by 38.6%, revenue from the DSaaS business amounted to
approximately RMB105.8 million, up by 90.7%, revenue from the vertical
industries and enterprise cloudification amounted to approximately
RMB68.15 million, up by 103.0%). Net profit amounted to approximately
RMB232.6 million, up by 228.8%. The adjusted net profit amounted to
approximately RMB280.4 million, up by 10.1%, and the adjusted net profit
margin amounted to 11.2%, up by 0.9 percentage point, which recorded a
new high in profitability.
During the Reporting Period, the
Company continues to further solidifying our leading position in the
operators’ market for BSS business and jointly facilitating rapid growth
of 5G business. 2020 is the popularisation year of 5G commercial
application. The Company continues to strengthen its business support
software and service advantages by providing BSS systems that enable 5G
scenarios for business operation. The Company provided strong support
for operators’ 5G business development, thus further solidifying our
leading position in the operators’ market. The Company actively
participated in the formulation of proposals and specifications for
smart middle office platform, assist in the construction of projects for
smart middle office platform in various regions, upgrade the overall
system architecture by means of the middle office platform, and form
supporting capabilities for the business scenarios, so as to help the
digital transformation. The Company actively explored 5G’s
multiquantity, multi-dimensional and multi-model charging and billing
capabilities and propel the launching of the 5G standalone (SA) charging
and billing system. Moreover, the Company deepens the cooperation in
big data platforms and domestic databases, and obtained project orders
for data processing platform, data model construction and database
migration services. As of 30 June 2020, the Company provided services to
262 telecom operator customers, up by 16.4%, and the customer retention
rate continued to maintain a high level of over 99%.
In terms of
OSS business, the Company vigorously promotes multi-sector business
integration, in particular, increases the innovation of 5G network
intelligent products, promotes 5G OSS business expansion, assists
operators to improve 5G network quality and experience.The Company
launched total solution services for 5G-Slicing end-to-end management,
provided operators supporting capabilities for the entire life cycle,
which helped them to quickly realise the end-to-end planning and
management of 5G slicing business and 5G network elements. The Company
obtain orders to construct the 5G network functions virtualization (NFV)
and short messaging service (SMS) converged gateway system on 5G
network, helping the virtualisation, cloudification and centralised
deployment of the 5G converged SMS gateway. The pilot project of the new
generation cloud network operation system was cutover and launched to
achieve the commercial implementation of multiple achievements and
promote the integration of B domain (BSS domain) and O domain (OSS
domain). As of 30 June 2020, the revenue from the Company’s OSS business
amounted to approximately RMB55.7 million, representing an increase of
38.6% as compared with the corresponding period of last year. Among
which, revenue from 5G OSS business amounted to approximately RMB15.3
million. During the Reporting Period, the Company has cooperated with
R&D organisations or provincial companies under the three major
operators, achieving 27 5G commercialized works.
DSaaS business
increasing by more than 90%, with revenue breakthrough of RMB100
million. In the first half of 2020, the Company continued to focus on
the DSaaS business, with constant diversification and innovation in
operation products and applications and customer base expansion, and had
established increasingly matured business models. Especially
confronting the COVID-19 outbreak, as a powerful tool to combat against
the epidemic spread, the value of DSaaS business has become more and
more prominent. The Company fully leverages the foundation capabilities
of big data and artificial intelligence to quickly develop 16 epidemic
prevention and control products and solutions ranging from macro
insights to grassroots control, and has precisely and effectively
assisted operators and government departments in epidemic prevention and
control and resumption of work and production, contribute to winning
the epidemic prevention and control battle with scientific and
technological strengths. Our products and solutions such as human flow
and epidemic trend sensing products in epidemic regions, visualisation
resolution of 3D immersive data on sensitive regions, and joint public
health emergency response plans were recommended by the Ministry of
Science and Technology, and our epidemic prevention and control big data
platform was highly recommended by China Academy of Information and
Communications Technology (CAICT) and the Cloud Computing Open Source
Industry Alliance. As of 30 June 2020, the revenue from DSaaS business
was approximately RMB105.8 million, up by 90.7%, nearly doubling again.
Growing
and solidifying key vertical industries, tapping into the enterprise
cloudification business. In the first half of 2020, the Company
vigorously expanded the vertical industries market, continued to focus
on strategic vertical industries including the finance, energy,
transportation, government affairs and postal services sectors, and
provided products and services primarily based on customer relationship
management (i.e. CRM), data management, development and operation
(DevOps) and cloud service management (Cloud MSP), with breakthrough
achievements in relevant industries. Recently, in the Trusted Cloud ?
Cloud MSP Competency Assessment hosted by CAICT, the Company were rated
as Excellent, the highest level of Trusted Cloud MSP certification
(currently only five MSPs have passed such certification). The Company
successfully launched the first phase of the third party e-commerce
platform project jointly constructed with Alibaba Cloud, and jointly
undertook the steel manufacturing projects including Hebei Steel and
Delong Steel with Alibaba Cloud. As of 30 June 2020, the Company
provided services to 64 large-scale corporate customers, up by 48.8%.
The customer retention rate continued to maintain a high level of over
99%.
During the Reporting Period, the Company fully set up the B
domain and O domain core product capabilities and created several
product systems and relating products. For example, the Company created
an open, united and credible cloud network-integrated product system
based on a enterprise-level comprehensive and full-stack multiple cloud
management platform, covering data-science product system including
full-domain smart operating and maintaining platform, knowledge graph
management tool, robotic process automation platform and 5G city digital
twinning platform etc. It also embraces BSS product system including
enterprise-level GIS platform, 3D visualisation product etc. The Company
continue to develop the Cloud MSP products and service capacity and
vertical industry solutions which empower the vertical industries, and
focus to implement the Cloud MSP strategy. While strengthening our
technological innovation, the Company have also established an
innovative closed-circle model from standardisation and
commercialisation, which comprises identifying the technological
innovation direction, making technical proposals to European
Telecommunications Standards Institute, 3rd Generation Partnership
Project, International Telecommunication Union, TeleManagement Forum,
IEEE, O-RAN and other industry organisations actively, compeleting the
innovative product R&D under the guidance of industry standards, and
constructing an ecological cooperation pattern with operators’ group
headquarters, research institutes and provincial companies by adopting
the joint technological innovation model during the commercialisation
process.
Besides, on 14 August 2020, the Company has been
selected as a constituent of each of Hang Seng Composite Index, Hang
Seng Stock Connect Hong Kong Index and Hang Seng Internet &
Information Technology Index, etc., changes of which will take effect on
7 September 2020. The Company believes that joining the Hang Seng
Family of Indexes will help the Company further broaden the investor
base and effectively strengthen the recognitions in in the capital
market of the Company, so as to improve the brand recognition of the
Company.
As the epidemic is turning around and economic recovery
momentum is picking up, the Company will insist on the strategy of “One
consolidation, Three developments”, seize the 5G commercialization
opportunity and firmly intensify our development in the industry. The
Company will continue to embrace emerging technologies by integrating
5G, artificial intelligence, big data and cloud computing together with
enterprise digital transformation to accelerate the construction of the
new infrastructure, aiming to become the enabler of the digital
transformation for large enterprises in the 5G era.