Uzbekistan Banks on Huawei to Implement Safe City, ICT Projects

As part of his visit to China, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Abdulla Aripov, visited Huawei's Shenzhen Digital Transformation Exhibition Hall on Thursday. In Exhibition Hall occupying 3300 sq m delegation got acquainted with products and solutions for corporate business segment, vertical industries, partners and state authorities.

During the visit Abdulla Aripov was briefed on the global development of Huawei Company, its cloud technologies, industry concepts on state digital transformation such as “safe” city, “smart” city, e-government, E-health. Experts also presented intellectual devices on the basis of AI chipsets and AI strategy of Huawei.

Prime Minister held a meeting with Li Jie, Chairman of Supervisory Board. During the negotiations sides discussed current joint ICT projects realizing on the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan and future projects which may help to improve investment climate in the country due to the introduction of innovative solutions in all areas of economic development. The topics on modernization of Uzbekistan ICT infrastructure, cooperation in the field of “safe” city deployment, improvement of tax system, integration of innovative technologies in emergency medical care, implementation of joint medical data base and data-centers construction for state authorities were discussed during the meeting.

At the end of government delegation visit Huawei and the Ministry for Development of Information Technologies and Communications of the Republic of Uzbekistan signed two Agreements of Cooperation.

The first Agreement is directed to cooperation in implementation of “safe” city project throughout the Republic of Uzbekistan, including establishment of joint call-center 112, deployment of interactive maps and various subsystems on transportation control, environmental control, intelligent video surveillance of public places, etc. The second Agreement includes cooperation on the application of modern ICT technologies in the activities of emergency medical services in the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Huawei has been operating in Uzbekistan for more than 19 years. During this period, Huawei participated in the construction and modernization of the ICT infrastructure in Uzbekistan and achieved many significant projects with fixed and mobile operators, including Uztelecom ICT infrastructure construction, Uzcloud data center construction, and Uzmobile GSM network construction.

Huawei cooperated with the UMS to implement the RuralStar project in rural areas for the first time, launched the first public test of 5G technologies and Beeline Uzbekistan data center construction with Beeline Uzbekistan.