On September 13, the inauguration ceremony of the Optics Valley International Communication Alliance was held in Wuhan, China, marking a significant step in empowering local technology companies to expand globally. The alliance, founded by 13 member companies including FiberHome, China Construction Third Engineering Bureau, HGTECH, YHKT Entertainment, Huakang Clean, and Shenglong Electric, along with over 100 other Optics Valley enterprises, aims to provide one-stop international communication services to facilitate high-quality global expansion.
The ceremony, themed "Chasing the Light, Connecting the World," highlights the accelerating global reach of Optics Valley's innovations. The overseas social media matrix of "Optics Valley of China" has gained attention, and products like the Optics Valley Photon sky rail and driverless minibuses have been praised by spokespersons of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, becoming a "calling card for China" among overseas netizens. To help companies move from "product export" to "brand export," Optics Valley has partnered with the News & Information Service Center of Xinhua News Agency and others to establish the alliance, offering services such as overseas public opinion response and multilingual content production, serving as a "navigator" for companies going global. Xinhua News Agency, as China's national news agency, has 184 overseas branches and cooperative links with over 2,000 media outlets worldwide.
Li Lei, vice president of FiberHome and a representative of the founding members, stated that FiberHome's business covers more than 100 countries and regions, with wholly owned subsidiaries in 36 countries and three overseas optical cable plants in Ecuador, Thailand, and Hungary; at its Philippine subsidiary, locally hired employees account for over 95 percent of the workforce. "We will stay committed to high-quality global expansion and to deepening localized operations, and, with the platform of the Optics Valley International Communication Alliance, we will not only export China's advanced communication technologies and solutions but also serve as a bridge for industrial cooperation and people-to-people connectivity between China and the rest of the world," he said. Huakang Clean, a leading enterprise in China's cleanroom industry, has made going global a core strategy for the 15th Five-Year Plan period, completed its market layout in Southeast Asia, Central Asia, the Middle East, South America, and Africa, and exported mature cleanroom technology solutions. It looks forward to deepening cross-border collaboration and strengthening brand building through the alliance platform.
At the ceremony, a think tank report titled "Going Global, Competing Worldwide: How 'Optics Valley of China' Polishes Its International Calling Card in Service of Building a Strong Nation in Science and Technology — Practices and Insights" was released by Reference News Press · Reference Think Tank. According to the report, leading enterprises represented by the "Seven Stars of Optics Valley" have seen average annual growth in overseas revenue of more than 30 percent. The report summarizes Optics Valley's global communication path as "one strategic direction and ten keywords": Optics Valley takes serving the building of a strong nation in science and technology as its strategic direction and adheres to central-local coordination, AI empowerment, going global as a team, and tailored measures for different markets. The report states that Optics Valley has witnessed and written the confidence and determination of a brand of a strong nation in science and technology going global, and that when the light of "Optics Valley of China" illuminates the global industrial landscape, it conveys the narrative of the times in which China takes part in global competition through technological self-reliance and self-strengthening and shares its opportunities with the world. The report suggests that to keep polishing its international calling card, three things need to be fully considered: first, elevating the Optics Valley story from "corporate behavior" to a "national narrative"; second, making full use of AI, a global knowledge-service infrastructure, to carry out global communication; and third, moving from "communication empowering industry" to "communication as an industrial capability."
A training session on overseas communication capacity building was held alongside the inauguration ceremony, with David Wei, founder of Vision Knight Capital, and Cao Yang, deputy director of the International Communication Department of the News & Information Service Center of Xinhua News Agency, invited to give lectures. The establishment of the alliance is expected to significantly impact the global tech landscape by enabling Chinese tech companies to compete more effectively internationally, potentially increasing their market share and influence. For the industry, it signifies a shift towards more strategic and coordinated international communication efforts. Readers, particularly those in the tech and business sectors, should note the emphasis on AI and localized operations as key drivers for successful global expansion, which may inspire similar initiatives in other regions.
