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China Unicom and Tencent joint ventures were approved to establish a joint venture, which caused heated discussion. The news comes from the "List of Cases for Unconditional Approval of Business Concentration from October 17 to October 23, 2022" released on the official website of the State Administration for Market Regulation on October 27, which shows that the case of a new joint venture between China Unicom Innovation and Venture Capital Co., Ltd. and Shenzhen Tencent Industrial Venture Capital Co., Ltd. was unconditionally approved and the settlement time is October 18.
From a business perspective, and Lin , co-director and researcher of the Digital Economy and Financial Innovation Research Center of Zhejiang University International United Business School, believes that "it is a win-win situation for both parties and it is also a way to give full play to their respective strengths. Unicom will gain more favorable advantages in the competition of operators." Pan Helin mentioned that Unicom is an operator, and cooperates with Tencent to actively expand its infrastructure and develop cloud services. This move can diversify China Unicom's business and improve its revenue dependence on communication fees. Previously, Tencent invested in China Unicom and also had the purpose of strategic cooperation with , and now it is to put the goal into implementation.
disk and Lin supplemented the statement that Tencent has Tencent Video , and the current WeChat conference function has also started to charge. As the demander for CDN and edge computing , Tencent cooperates with China Unicom to invest in upstream industry , expanding to the upstream of the industrial chain, which can enhance Tencent’s bargaining power for purchasing related services and further enhance cloud computing power.
Ma Jihua, founder and chief analyst of Beijing Darui Consulting, also agreed with this. "China Unicom and Tencent have been strategic partners for many years and have worked closely in many aspects, such as Dawang Card, etc. This joint venture company is just a concrete manifestation of the cooperation between the two."
Since 2017, Tencent has participated in China Unicom's mixed reform. On August 20, 2017, China Unicom released a mixed-ownership reform plan, and 9 strategic investors including Tencent Xinda, Baidu Penghuan, JD Sanhong, Alibaba Venture Capital, and Suning Cloud Merchants were introduced.
According to China Unicom's plan at the time, it will carry out in-depth strategic cooperation with these newly introduced strategic investors in the fields of cloud computing , big data, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence , home Internet, digital content, retail system, payment finance, etc.
Tianyancha APP shows that Tencent Holdings Co., Ltd. senior executive vice president Lu Shan also serves as director of China United Network Communications Co., Ltd. . Lu Shan has been a director of China Unicom since February 8, 2018, and his term of office lasts until March 28, 2024. Lu Shan joined Tencent in 2000 and has served as general manager of the instant communications product department, vice president of platform R&D system and senior vice president of operation platform system.
From the perspective of mixed-ownership reform, senior Internet observer Ding Daoshi believes that "mixed-ownership reform can not only make good use of the resources and channels of state-owned enterprises, but also prevent state-owned enterprises from being restricted by their rigid mechanisms. Private enterprises have a more market-oriented operation method, and can achieve small steps and fast running."
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