The 11^th China Optical Communication Development and Competitiveness Forum and the awarding ceremony of “2017 Top Ten Optical Communication Enterprises of the World & China”, co-organized by China Communications Association Optical Communication Committee and Asia-Pacific Optical Communications Committee, held successfully in Beijing on 16^th November. Depending on its powerful strength, Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Joint Stock Limited Company (Hereinafter referred to as “YOFC” or “the company”, stock code: 6869.HK) earned four honourable awards on the conference, including No.1 among “Top Ten Competitive Optical Fibre and Cable Enterprises of China”, No.2 among “Top Ten Competitive Optical Fibre and Cable Enterprises of the World”, No.5 among “Top Ten Competitive Optical Communication Brands of China” and “2017 China Optical Communication Enterprise with the ‘Spirit of Craftsmanship’ ”. Yan Changkun, the Vice President of YOFC attended the forum and accepted the awards on behalf of the company. Achieving these awards, YOFC evidently proved its strong comprehensive strength as well as its leading position in the optical communication field.

No.1 among “Top Ten Competitive Optical Fibre and Cable Enterprises of China”

No.2 among “Top Ten Competitive Optical Fibre and Cable Enterprises of the World”

No.5 among “Top Ten Competitive Optical Communication Brands of China”

“2017 China Optical Communication Enterprise with the ‘Spirit of Craftsmanship’”

      Themed by “Enter the era of 5G, Accelerate Internet Revolution”, the forum explored and discussed technologies, products and marketing directions of China optical communication industry under guidance of trends covering 5G, big data and IOT. Leading experts of optical communication industries including Wei Leping, Executive Deputy Director of Science and Technology Commission of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Zhang Chengliang, Vice President of China Telecom Beijing Research Institute and Ao Li, Vice President of Institute of Standards and Technology of China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, delivered speech respectively from multiple aspects on opportunities and challenges brought by 5G to the optical communication, development of optical network based on increased traffic and how optical communication help to develop broadband.

       Mr. Mao qian, professional committee of Science and Technology Commission of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Chairman of Asia-Pacific Optical Communication Committee as well as Editor-in-chief of the “Journal of Communications and Networks”, summarize the whole selecting activity of Top Ten Competitive Optical Communication Enterprises of the World| China”. According to him, countries around the world are playing active roles in 5G network layout, showing huge developing space of the global optical communication market. He also forecast a steady growth of national fibre and cable industry for the next two quarters given rapid demand growth of the fibre and cable markets.

      Yan changkun, the Vice President of YOFC, delivered a keynote speech entitled as “Leading Innovation & Focusing on Quality: Boost Healthy Development of Global Fibre and Cable Industries” on the seminar of the conference. He introduced the birth of YOFC because of great development of China’s Communications field, shared its history of leading and promoting national optical fibre industry, analyzed good developing orientation of the global fibre and cable market and expressed wishes of YOFC to cooperate with professionals from all aspects of the industry, make mutual innovations and improve overall quality for leading and promoting healthy global fibre and cable development in the foreseeable future.

      The highlight of this conference was the “Roundtable Forum” conducted by Yan Changkun, the Vice President of YOFC, where in-depth discussions were taken up and different opinions were shared on problems such as how to speed up increasing the “soft power” of China optical communication enterprises and how could China optical communication enterprises meet the challenges of global competition while actively conducting global branding at the same time. Participants attending the forum include Wang Libiao, Vice President of Huawei Transport Network Product Line, Zhu Weiquan, Vice President of Hengtong Group, Huawen, Director and Executive President of Futong Group, Zhang Siyuan, Vice President of Nokia IP & Optical Network Business and Yang qi, Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory for Fibre Optical Communication Technology and Network in Wuhan Research Institute.

      Having been held 11 times successfully since 2006, the ODC forum has become widely acknowledged by the industry colleagues and peer companies. The successful opening-up of this forum help to promote sectors from the optical communication to interact with each other by facilitating discussion and communication of the participants, and guide the enterprises to meet their challenges and opportunities by strengthening the understanding of the enterprises on global and domestic optical communication developing status quo and trends. Thus, the enterprises will learn to take their full advantages, avoid weaknesses, deepen the cooperation and communication within the industrial chain and ultimately create a harmonious, healthy, ordered and sustainable China optical communication industry.