Pan Gang, president and chairman of Yili Group (back row second from right), and Chen Zhongyue, chairman of China Unicom (second from left), witness the signing of a strategic cooperation agreement. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Yili Group and China Unicom signed a strategic cooperation agreement at the Yili Future Intelligence & Health Valley on Aug 14.

As a global leader in the dairy industry, Yili has long been committed to driving the digital and intelligent transformation of dairy production. Each innovation and technological upgrade has redefined the industry's development standards.

China Unicom, a key force in building a digital China, uses cutting-edge technologies such as 5G, cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence to accelerate industrial digitalization.

The signing of this agreement marks the beginning of a new chapter of cross-industry collaboration between two industry leaders. By sharing resources and complementing each other's strengths, the two sides aim to integrate technological convenience with the concept of healthy living.

At the signing ceremony, Yili and China Unicom also unveiled the "AI + Smart Dairy Joint Laboratory". The lab is designed to serve as a global model for intelligent dairy, embedding AI deeply into the entire dairy industrial chain.

Moving forward, the two companies will integrate operational expertise of the industrial chain, massive core datasets, dairy expert resources, advanced telecommunications technology, cloud-network infrastructure, and AI R&D capabilities to build a "super innovation platform" for smart dairy. This collaboration is set to propel technological transformation in the dairy sector with robust innovation capabilities.