Breaking news! The fertile land of innovation embraced another big name of innovation. Huawei Fitness & Health Science Laboratory was settled in Songshan Lake. The laboratory will not only become the platform for enterprises to conduct innovation of smart wearable products and technologies but will also help to produce a new name for Dongguan as the “City of Fashion Outdoor Sport”, contributing valuable human resources for the subsequent development of China’s smart sports.
On the morning of September 11, at the Huawei Developer Conference 2020 held in Songshan Lake, cooperation was reached between Huawei Consumer Business Group and the Sport Information Center of the General Administration of Sport of China in building Huawei Fitness & Health Science Laboratory.
The signing ceremony was attended by leaders such as Yu Chengdong, Executive Director and CEO of Huawei Consumer Business Group, Shao Yang, Chief Strategy Officer of Huawei Consumer Business Group, Zhang Jian, Director and Secretary of the Sport Information Center of the General Administration of Sport of China, Lin Ying, Member of the Leading Party Members’ Group and Deputy Director of the Administration of Sports of Guangdong Province, Yang Xiaotang, Member of the Standing Committee of Dongguan Municipal Party Committee and Head of Publicity Department of Dongguan Municipal Party Committee, Ouyang Nanjiang, Deputy Secretary of the Party Working Committee and Director of the Management Committee of Songshan Lake, and Xie Dong, Chairman of the Supervisory Committee, Deputy Secretary of Party Committee and Chairman of the Labor Union of Vanke Group.
Globally speaking, support for enterprises in technology innovation and R&D constitute the development orientation championed by the international community. With its settlement in Songshan Lake, Huawei Fitness & Health Science Laboratory will emerge as the public services platform for various enterprises to conduct intelligent sport performance testing. This fully demonstrates the staunch support according to international practices extended by Dongguan CPC Municipal Committee, the People’s Government of Dongguan Municipality and the Management Committee of Songshan Lake to enterprises represented by Huawei in carrying out technology innovation and R&D.
During the event, a Memorandum of Understanding for the establishment of Huawei Fitness & Health Science Laboratory was signed among Huawei Consumer Business Group, the Sport Information Center of the General Administration of Sport of China, the Management Committee of Songshan Lake and Vanke Group. This marks Huawei’s another effort of deploying all-scenario smart ecology in Songshan Lake, Dongguan.
Emergence of platforms
Ecology of fitness and health sees addition of a joint laboratory
The site of Huawei Fitness & Health Science Laboratory is located in the Wanhui Cloud Valley Science and Technology Industrial Park in southern Songshan Lake Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone. The industrial park covers a total floor area of 168,000 square meters with the first phase of the industrial park facing Huawei Xiliu Beipo Village across the lake. It is learned that Wanhui Cloud Valley Science and Technology Industrial Park is an ecological innovation space adjacent to the sea with ultralow density developed by Dongguan Vanke and is also the first industrial project settled by Vanke in Songshan Lake. Based on the deployment of Huawei Fitness & Health Science Laboratory, the industrial park will place emphasis on introducing platform projects such as smart fitness and health, high-end electronic information and science and education creativity.
“Enterprises from the fitness and health ecology will be attracted following the settlement of Huawei Fitness & Health Science Laboratory. With the laboratory as the core platform, the industrial park will focus on introducing and nurturing enterprises dealing with smart wearable devices, intelligent sports equipment and sports facilities to build a special cluster of fitness and health,” people in charge of the Wanhui Cloud Valley project said.
The Fitness & Health Science Laboratory will be constructed centering around core functions such as research, standard R&D, testing and verification and experience demonstration of smart wearable devices. Guided by industry incubation, Songshan Lake Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone will build a world-class innovation platform for the fitness and health industry, national sport industry base and smart sport demonstration area to facilitate transfer and transformation of relevant technology results. It will strive to build itself into national smart sport technology innovation center, help to produce a new name for Dongguan as the “City of Fashion Outdoor Sport” and contribute valuable human resources for the subsequent development of China’s smart sports.
Interaction on the cloud
Multiple parties work together to create new dividends of intelligent manufacturing
“The screen modules of one out of 14 mobile phones are made by DPT.” DPT is a leading enterprise of China in screen modules for mobile phones, tablets, smart wearable devices and laptops and leads in services.
Over the past few years, based on the big data platform developed by FusionPlant, the industrial internet platform of Huawei Cloud, DPT has greatly improved its production management efficiency and data security after applying big data management in its production line.
Inside DPT, the high integration of the automatic system of the workshops and other information systems of the company allows abundant valuable data to serve the entire production process, which dramatically lowers reliance on human labor. “We have about 13,000 workers in the factory at our peak. Now totally 8,375 worker are needed to finish the same amount of work. It is estimated that the labor cost has dropped by 25% to 30% after introducing intelligence in manufacturing,” said Chen Cheng, CFO of DPT.
Dongguan, a city grew dependent on the manufacturing industry, has formed an industrial system with comprehensive variety and wide coverage. The city is currently home to more than 180,000 industrial enterprises and over 10,000 enterprises above designated size, ranking first in the province. Dongguan ranks top among cities across the country in terms of intensity of manufacturing enterprises. With a large size in industry clusters of electronic information manufacturing, robot and intelligent equipment, Songshan Lake enjoys a high degree of automation and solid manufacturing foundation, thus providing fertile soil for Huawei to deploy its industrial internet and explore transformation and upgrading of manufacturing with its sound “manufacturing genes”.
In October 2019, the Management Committee of Songshan Lake and Huawei worked together to launch the Songshan Lake Industrial Cloud project. The pattern of “government guidance + Huawei Cloud services + Huawei ecological partners” was adopted to establish service platforms. These efforts were made to boost development of industrial internet and promote high quality development of relevant industries in Songshan Lake; facilitate transformation of enterprises in the functional area of Songshan Lake from “manufacturing” to “intelligent manufacturing”; support enterprises in application of cloud services to lower costs, improve effectiveness and enhance capability of intelligent manufacturing of enterprises inside the park. By the end of August 2020, 64 enterprises had become users of industrial internet businesses through Songshan Lake industrial cloud project.
On August 25, 2020, Guangdong’s first “Huawei Cloud Industrial Internet Innovation Center” jointly build by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. and Guangdong Guangda Group was officially launched in Songshan Lake. The innovation center will assist Dongguan in faster settlement of its three-year action plan for development of new digital infrastructure to form a “5G + industrial internet” industrial cluster with global competitiveness.
Strengthen and extend the industrial chain
Cluster effects of ecological partners are constantly enhanced
It is not widely known that 90% of the phone camera stands available in the market use high-resistance aluminum alloy materials. Along with the rapid iteration and upgrading of smart phone terminals, there is increasing demand for new type of materials for smartphone structural components, particularly new materials with die casting technique. Dongguan Qingniao Metal Material Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Qingniao Metal”) owns the largest metal smelting plant in Dongguan. The company has established long-term coordinated R&D mechanism with multiple enterprises dealing with innovative mobile intelligent terminals.
“Efficient coordinated R&D requires the fastest response from us.” According to Chen Ming, Project Manager of Qingniao Metal, in 2019, the company decided to establish its R&D center in Songshan Lake to better provide fast and effective services for vendors mobile phone terminals.
Echoing Dongguan’s trend of upgrading industry, Goertek officially started construction of its South China intelligent manufacturing park in Songshan Lake in November 2019 and the park was planned to be put into operation in May 2021.
Guangda We Valley where Qingniao Metal is located, now is home to a batch of high-quality enterprises dealing with software services such as EPRO Software, Chinasoft, iSoftStone and Huaweisoft. With the convergence of thousands of talents specializing in software development, the park has created a sound environment for learning and exchanges across different industries.
Since its first investment and settlement in 2005, Huawei had invested projects in Songshan Lake such as Huawei Machine, Huawei University, Huawei Terminal, Huawei R&D Lab and Huawei Taiwan Science Park Southern School.
Tens of thousands of R&D personnel and partners from different fields gather in Dongguan Songshan Lake to explore construction of an all-scenario smart ecology.
At the Huawei Developer Conference 2020, Yu Chengdong, Executive Director and CEO of Huawei Consumer Business Group, said, “A sky full of stars can be extinguished by anyone. Every developer is the star Huawei is trying to bring together.”
The construction of the comprehensive national science center in the Greater Bay Area, as part of the country’s strategic deployment in technology innovation, has been placed on the agenda. Songshan Lake Science City and Guangming Science City will work together to build the Greater Bay Area comprehensive national science center pilot zone. The construction will center around scientific apparatus represented by China Spallation Neutron Source and major platform represented by Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, which have already provided unprecedented support for many high-tech enterprises such as Huawei in the uncharted innovation areas.