Hu Henghua, Mayor of Chongqing and Deputy Secretary of the Chongqing Municipal CPC Committee, Met with Gao Nianshu, and Headquarters of iResearch Settled in Liangjiang New Area

2023-08-09 AsiaInfo

On August 8, Hu Henghua, mayor of Chongqing and deputy secretary of the Chongqing Municipal CPC Committee met with Gao Nianshu, CEO and executive director of AsiaInfo and chairman of iResearch, and his delegation in Chongqing. Both parties exchanged views on deepening business cooperation and setting up the national headquarters of AsiaInfo's iResearch in Chongqing. On the same day, the two parties held a signing ceremony, and the national headquarters of iResearch was officially settled in Liangjiang New Area of Chongqing.


Hu Henghua Met with Gao Nianshu and His Delegation


On behalf of the Chongqing municipal government, Hu Henghua expressed welcome to Gao Nianshu and his delegation. He said that Chongqing was now thoroughly implementing the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, making a solid step in promoting the construction of a dual-city economic circle in Chengdu and Chongqing, vigorously developing the “first-in-command” project of digital Chongqing construction, and comprehensively building a new socialist modernized Chongqing. Also, efforts will be made to build a “33618” modern manufacturing cluster system, implement the “starry sky” plan of the software and information service industry in depth, accelerate the cultivation of “Star Qiming” and “Star Beidou” software enterprises, and promote the high-quality development of software and information service industry in the whole city. It is hoped that AsiaInfo will make good use of the rich scenarios of modern construction of Chongqing, give full play to its leading role, actively participate in the construction of digital Chongqing, and take a bigger and faster step to upgrade the industrial level of projects in Chongqing and achieve win-win development. Chongqing will continue to provide high-quality and efficient services for enterprises' development and fully support iResearch to rank in the “Star Qiming” software enterprise list.


Gao Nianshu expressed sincere gratitude to the Chongqing municipal government for its guidance and support to AsiaInfo and iResearch and sincerely congratulated Chongqing on its outstanding achievements in developing software and the information service industry. He said that as the business layout of AsiaInfo was highly compatible with the development strategy of Chongqing, AsiaInfo was willing to further increase investment in Chongqing. Depending on AsiaInfo's leading software products, solutions, and related services, AsiaInfo will build a whole framework around the “1361” digital Chongqing, so as to contribute to the high-quality economic and social development of Chongqing. At present, iResearch is cooperating closely with relevant departments in Chongqing to promote the implementation of investment, talent introduction, technological innovation, and local business supports through special mechanisms.


Luo Qingquan, secretary general of Chongqing municipal government and director-general of the general office, Chen Wu, senior vice president of AsiaInfo, Li Yunchuan, vice president of AsiaInfo and CEO of iResearch, and Liu Chengkun, vice president of AsiaInfo attended the negotiation.


National Headquarters of AsiaInfo's iResearch Was Settled in Chongqing


At the signing ceremony, Li Jie, member of the party working committee and deputy director of the administrative committee of Liangjiang New Area, Chongqing, and Li Yunchuan, vice president of AsiaInfo and CEO of iResearch, signed the agreement on behalf of both parties. Xu Hongqiu, member of the party working committee and deputy director of the administrative committee of Liangjiang New Area, and Gao Nianshu, CEO and executive director of AsiaInfo and chairman of iResearch, witnessed the signing of the agreement.


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Figure: On-Site Signing


According to the agreement, iResearch National Headquarters will be located in Liangjiang New Area of Chongqing with a total investment of 1.5 billion yuan. AsiaInfo and iResearch will increase investment in Chongqing Liangjiang New Area, orient DSaaS digital operation and intelligent decision-making, and provide urban intelligent operation centers with services such as big data platform, data-based governance and operation, digital twins; provide social governance with services such as smart emergency, smart community, grassroots governance; Provide smart production with services such as smart parks, digital villages, enterprise services, industrial brains; Provide smart ecology with services such as dual carbon, urban comprehensive management, special vehicle management, and vehicle-to-infrastructure cooperation; Build a closed loop of consultation, planning, IT construction, digital intelligence operation and services.


Zhang Yan, president of the western branch of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, and persons in charge of Chongqing Liangjiang New Area and iResearch attended the ceremony.