Thailand Prime Minister Visits Huawei Booth at Digital Thailand Big Bang 2017

[Bangkok, Thailand, September 21, 2017] Thailand Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha today visited Huawei Technology Thailand’s booth at the Digital Thailand Big Bang, the largest digital technology expo in Southeast Asia, in which Huawei showcased its products and solutions covering 10 main industries including Smart City, Smart Energy, Smart Parking, Digital Railway, Smart Airport, Smart Government, Smart Agriculture, Smart Education, Smart Water and Smart Home, in a bid to help the kingdom to fulfill its ambition of Thailand 4.0.

Thailand Prime Minister General Prayuth Chan-o-cha today visited Huawei Technology Thailand’s booth at the Digital Thailand Big Bang

During his visit, Prime Minister Prayuth suggested that the Smart City technologies are consistent with the future transformation of the country to become digitalized and these technologies support ecosystem development as a whole.

Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak, Deputy Prime Minister Prajin Jantong, and Digital Economy and Society Minister Pichet Durongkaveroj visited Huawei’s booth as well.

In this occasion, Huawei also signed two Memorandum of Understandings (MoU) including a cooperation to support the Operation of Digital Park Thailand and IoT, and the Smart City project development plan with DEPA (Digital Economy Promotion Agency).

Deputy Prime Minister Prajin Jantong visited Huawei’s booth

As one of world’s leading information and communications technology (ICT) solutions providers, Huawei also serves as the best partner of ICT infrastructure development in Thailand, a leading enabler of digital transformation for all sectors, and an advocate of digital life. The new local strategy “Embrace Digital Life”, combining Huawei’s development goals and Thailand 4.0 strategy that emphasizes digital economy, aims to seek win-win cooperation with more openness, contribute to digital transformation of every industry in Thailand and help Thais to better enjoy digital life by applying Huawei’s worldwide innovations, technologies and high quality products.

“This year, Huawei has been working on ‘Embrace Digital Life’, a new local strategy that is consistent with the theme of Digital Thailand Big Bang. It exemplifies that Huawei has been highly merged into Thai society. Huawei’s own development fits in the digitalization of Thailand, people’s aspiration for digital life and the win-win goal of our business partners. All these have laid a solid foundation for Huawei to actively take part in and contribute to the realization of Thailand 4.0”, said Qiang Hua, managing director of Huawei Thailand.

The emergence of Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, and artificial intelligence catalyzes the digitalization of our society, thus every industry has to integrate digital transformation with future development. Huawei Thailand has put forward digital transformation plans for 10 major industries, together with a full collection of its best successful applications around the world, to paint a great and foreseeable future for Digital Thailand.

These 10 industries, being studied by Huawei, are chosen as prior industries that we recommend to push forward Thailand 4.0, said Qiang, adding that Huawei stands more than ready to contribute to Thailand 4.0, and it has already taken actions. With its OpenLab Bangkok, Huawei will build an ecosystem for Digital Thailand by providing its partners with access to this technological, marketing, training and service platform, the director mentioned, ”OpenLab will be a farmland of innovation”.

In terms of encouraging various industries to embrace digital transformation, according to him, Huawei will leverage its unparalleled advantages of “world’s leading connection capability plus fully cloud-based products and solutions”, two engines that add more power to Digital Thailand.

Thailand 4.0 is a new economic development method put forward by Thai government to overcome the middle-income trap and to develop the kingdom into an innovation-driven, high-income country.

Digital Thailand Big Bang lasts from 21 to 24 September in Impact Muang Thong Thani. Huawei pavilion is set up in Section C3, Challenger Hall 2, with the theme “Embrace Digital Life” to showcase its solutions for Digital Thailand. In the future, Huawei will definitely put forward more products and solutions for the digital transformation of different industries in Thailand in line with the gradual implementation of Digital Thailand.