Leading Chinese IT Company to Explore Joint Ventures with Pakistani Firms

A leading Chinese digital solutions provider has shown tremendous interest in exploring the Pakistani market for investment and business through joint ventures with local IT companies. “If future cooperation with local distributors goes smoothly, we would set up our business office in Pakistan to become a partner of local IT companies to achieve business innovation and industrial upgrades” International Business Leader of the Belt and Road Working Group, New H3C Group, Jason told APP in an exclusive interview here on Sunday. He said, The Chinese company provides a full range of computing, storage, networking and security under its digital solutions infrastructure. The company also provides complete one-stop digital platform solutions that include cloud computing, big data, big interconnectivity, big security, big surveillance, edge computing, artificial intelligence, and blockchain. “We are ready to cooperate with reputed companies in research and development as well as in building their network system,” he added. He said with technology innovation as its core engine, the company has over 50% of its staff focusing on research and development, adding, as till June 2018, it has over 8,865 patent applications, with 90% of its patents being inventions. About the experience of the market and the business environment in Pakistan, he said the company has already completed two projects in Pakistan including assistance in the informatization construction of Gwadar port. Jason said his company products are widely used in hospitals to get data of patients and dispose waste efficiently, adding that Pakistani hospitals could take advantage of their products and expertise. Responding to a question, he said the company would invite Pakistani ICT companies to visit its headquarters in China for collaboration. Talking about the company itself, he said that it’s based in China since 2003 and is a digital solutions leader and a promoter of the new economy. The number of its employees is over 13,000, with headquarters in Beijing and Hangzhou and offices in every main city of China. The company is sharing its IT innovations with the society, accelerating the pace of the society’s embrace of informatization and intelligentization, and supporting the development of the new economy in China.