Faced with shrinking growth in both cellphone sales and telecom infrastructure investment, Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, a leading information communication technology (ICT) solutions provider, unveils its comprehensive cloud plan from new service to global alliances at a three-day ICT conference in Shanghai.

Huawei launched its intelligent cloud service for enterprises, which is a part of Huawei’s global push for finding opportunities in companies undergoing digital transformation.

Moreover, the company is working with partners to build a global cloud that both Chinese and international companies can benefit from. While exploring overseas markets, the company’s rotating CEO Guo Ping noted that cloud technology has become the cornerstone of an intelligent society, according to a press release Huawei sent to CGTN Wednesday.

Guo likened Huawei's strategy to the three major airline alliances – Sky Team, Star Alliance, and One world – which take passengers wherever they need to go in the world. Likewise, building the global cloud network will not be a solo work. At the conference, Huawei and Microsoft signed a cloud service strategic memorandum of understanding under which Microsoft’s applications will be released on the Huawei cloud.

The company has committed to long-term investment in public cloud, which can be regarded as a challenge to domestic and international competitors such as Tencent, Alibaba and Amazon.

Public cloud service refers to sharing the data infrastructure instead of limiting it to specific users.

The global market revenue of the public cloud will grow from 247 billion US dollars this year to 383 billion US dollars in 2020, according to data from Gartner. 

Huawei said in an interview in April that it would compete with Amazon’s cloud service AWS and Microsoft’s Azure. 

A development plan released by the country’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in April showed China is also a thriving market, and it expected the cloud industry to jump from 150 billion yuan in 2015 to 430 billion yuan in 2019 with two or three world-class cloud companies in China. 

Chinese tech titans have started monetizing the cloud business, with Alibaba seeing a 96 percent year-on-year revenue growth on cloud business in the second quarter and Tencent also reporting a 177 percent revenue jump in payment and cloud business in the same period.