CCTV News: The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently issued pilot approvals for value-added telecommunications business operations to 13 foreign-funded enterprises in Beijing, Shanghai, Hainan and Shenzhen.

The so-called value-added telecommunications service is to use public network infrastructure to provide additional telecommunications and information services. For example, Internet data centers, e-commerce and information services.

This time, the first batch of 13 foreign-funded enterprises that can carry out value-added telecommunications business pilot projects, and most of their parent companies are internationally renowned multinational enterprises. According to the approval content, these companies can carry out value-added telecommunications services such as Internet access and information services.

As of the end of February 2025, there were more than 2,400 foreign-invested telecommunications companies in my country, an increase of 30% over the same period in 2024. Expanding foreign investment access and activate new momentum in the communications market

When the reporter sorted out the list of these 13 foreign-funded enterprises, he found that not only telecommunications enterprises, but also many foreign-funded enterprises from other industries. For example, aircraft manufacturers Airbus, and companies in the digital medical field, etc. For these companies, what can they do to carry out value-added telecommunications business in China?

This aircraft manufacturing company from Europe is one of the 13 foreign-funded enterprises that have just been approved for value-added telecommunications business. The reporter saw at the company's R&D center in Shunyi, Beijing that technicians are improving the data storage, analysis and application platform of the domestic fleet.

The company's head introduced that after obtaining the license, you can analyze the airline's aircraft data in advance, carry out health monitoring, and improve the on-time rate of flights through preventive maintenance, while reducing fuel consumption.

Zhao Chen, the head of the enterprise, introduced that with this value-added telecommunications business license, they can successfully provide corresponding digital support to airlines. In the field of maintenance engineering, they first plan to introduce base health monitoring, and in the fields of flight and operation, the business of flight plans, including electronic data flight packages, will be launched in China later.

In Shenzhen, this German company has launched an open digital business platform based on the newly obtained value-added telecommunications business license. At present, more than 180 local partners have settled in, jointly created nearly 300 products and solutions to provide tailor-made services for small and medium-sized enterprises, and accelerate the digital transformation and green and low-carbon development of the Chinese market.

The company's head Hu Jianjun introduced that they have discovered the huge market potential for intelligent transformation and transformation and green and low-carbon development in the Chinese market. Through their platform, new value co-creation is formed, such as digitalization plus low-carbonization, AI and industrial applications, so that it can meet the needs of the Chinese market with a richer combination. Through China's high-level opening-up measures, they hope that new business innovations can be more deeply integrated into the high-quality development pattern. The telecommunications industry expands opening up and expands the incremental market

The telecommunications industry expands opening up in fact to help more companies develop digital economy in China and to give birth to more innovative services of "digital + entity". This policy adjustment will also bring multiple livelihood dividends through the "market live water effect". From smarter home control to more precise medical services, the digital transformation brought about by opening up allows ordinary people to enjoy more conveniences of life brought about by "technology spillover".

my country's telecommunications industry has actively expanded to 8 since it promised to open 4 of the 10 value-added telecommunications services when it joined the World Trade Organization, and has lifted the foreign equity ratio restrictions of 4 of them, and the scope of opening up of telecommunications services has steadily expanded. From the first pilot program of opening up value-added telecommunications services in the Shanghai Free Trade Pilot Zone in 2013 to the replication of policies to all free trade pilot zones in 2018, the scope of the open pilot area has been continuously expanded.

Shi Lina, director of the International Governance Research Department of the Institute of Policy and Economics of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, introduced that the opening of the telecom market to foreign capital is also conducive to promoting the development of my country's telecom market. At the same time, foreign capital has also gained a good development environment when entering my country's telecom market. For example, Internet information services are a popular area for enterprises to apply for this time. Among the 13 pilot enterprises approved for the first time, more than half of them have applied for the Internet information service business.

Carry out value-added telecommunications business to expand opening up, achieving effective connection between the domestic industry management system and regulatory model with international high-standard economic and trade rules, and promoting the continuous improvement of the industry regulatory system.

Shi Lina said that Internet information services are actually the integration of digital technology with all walks of life. When foreign-funded enterprises enter these fields, they can also promote the acceleration of the integration and development of digital technologies such as cloud computing, big data, 5G, and artificial intelligence with various industries, and improve the quality of services, which can also bring tangible benefits to consumers.