On January 14th, Hebei Iron and Steel Group signed a strategic cooperation agreement with ZTE Corporation in Shenzhen. The two parties will deepen resource synergy, jointly build an innovation platform, and establish a northern industrial control and intelligent computing industry base, promoting the empowerment of digital intelligence technology in the transformation and development of the manufacturing industry, and jointly creating a benchmark for digital transformation and innovative applications. Yu Yong, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Hebei Iron and Steel Group, and Li Zixue, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of ZTE, had in-depth exchanges on topics such as establishing a strategic partnership and jointly accelerating the development of new quality productivity, and witnessed the signing of the strategic cooperation agreement. Hebei Iron and Steel Digital and ZTE signed a plan for the establishment of the northern industrial control and intelligent computing industry base. Both parties will fully leverage their respective advantages, deepen resource synergy, jointly build an innovation platform, and explore innovative applications of digital intelligence technology in areas such as network collaboration and smart production in the steel industry, working together to create a benchmark for digital transformation and innovative application demonstration. At the same time, by combining their respective advantages in talent, technology, and market resources, they will jointly build the northern industrial control and intelligent computing industry base in Shijiazhuang, carrying out comprehensive and in-depth cooperation around research and development, production, market, and brand, and jointly constructing a digital and intelligent industrial ecosystem, based in Hebei and facing the whole country, based in steel and facing the entire industry, creating a new highland for innovation in industrial control and intelligent computing industries in new industrialization