On October 24, 2025, the First Board's sixth Council Meeting of the Global Intelligent Internet of Things Consortium (GIIC) was held grandly in Beijing. Representatives from 47 board member units, including the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Huawei, Haier, China Mobile, China Telecom, PetroChina Kunlun Manufacturing, China Academy of Building Research, JD.com, China Unicom, Midea, China Home Appliance Research Institute, China Electronics Standardization Institute, and Hisilicon (the above order is based on the sequence of joining the consortium), jointly attended the meeting. Mr. Gao Tongqing, Chairman of GTI (Global New Generation Information and Communication Technology Cooperation Organization) and Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Committee of China Mobile, attended the meeting as a candidate for the Chairman elected during the session. The meeting was presided over by Mr. Hu Caiyong, Secretary-General of the consortium.
The attending representatives unanimously elected Mr. Gao Tongqing as the new Chairman of the GIIC consortium.
Gao Tongqing, Chairman of the Global Intelligent Internet of Things Consortium
After his election, Chairman Gao Tongqing delivered an important speech, highly praising the contributions made by the former Chairman, Academician Zhang Hongke of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, to the construction and development of the consortium. He also put forward several considerations and suggestions for the future work of the consortium:
Chairman Gao Tongqing emphasized that the first priority is to clarify the consortium's work objectives and establish a service-oriented mindset and consciousness. That is: to serve the national strategy, industrial development, consortium enterprises, and Chinese solutions. Work should be carried out around these four services to enhance international influence. The specific work directions are:
1. Leverage the consortium platform
Aggregate the forces of government, industry, academia, research, and application to form a collective effort within the consortium, promote mutual cooperation among members, jointly serve the national strategy and socio-economic development, and achieve opportunities for their own development.
2. Promote open cooperation
Encourage open cooperation among consortium enterprises, further expand the number of consortium members, enrich the structure of consortium members, promote industrial chain and ecosystem cooperation, focus on China, and face the world. Jointly research technology, form standards, and innovate scenarios.
3. Enhance capabilities and prosper the ecosystem
Expand the consortium's influence, provide influential standards and technologies, promote the development of domestic and international industrial ecosystems, actively participate in international cooperation and dialogue, play the consortium's role in going global, and provide support for consortium members to expand overseas application scenarios.
4. Strengthen consortium infrastructure
Improve consortium systems, carry out all consortium work in accordance with the requirements of serving the national strategy, etc.; improve the consortium's basic capabilities and system construction, promote the work of special committees, and make the consortium's work more vibrant.
5. Establish effective communication methods
The consortium secretariat and various units should unite and establish more efficient communication methods, making the consortium a platform and home for everyone, so that consortium work is warm, high-level, and meaningful.
Hu Caiyong, Secretary-General of the Global Intelligent Internet of Things Consortium
The meeting reviewed and approved the "Proposal on the Approval Authority for Ordinary Member Units to Join" and the "Management Measures for Consortium Branch (Representative) Institutions (Trial Draft)," optimizing the approval process for ordinary member units to join and improving the consortium's work efficiency; clarifying the management methods for consortium branches and further perfecting the consortium's governance structure and standardized management operations.
The meeting deliberated and passed the establishment of the Smart Home Working Committee, the eSIM IoT Technology Special Committee, and the RISC-V Sub-Committee. The leading units of the three newly established branches respectively reported on the progress of preparations and work plans.
The Smart Home Working Committee, with the China Home Appliance Research Institute as the director unit, will carry out work in the fields of smart homes and smart home appliances, focusing on standard formulation, certification evaluation, case release, toolset development, and industrial promotion. It is committed to jointly formulating and promoting globally influential interoperability technical standards with industry partners, which is of great significance for promoting industry standardization, promoting industrial collaboration, and serving the national strategy.
The eSIM IoT Technology Special Committee was jointly initiated by China Unicom, China Telecom, China Mobile, Haier, and China UnionPay, with 11 units involved. The initiating units cover operators, terminal equipment manufacturers, certification and testing institutions, and solution providers. The committee will focus on the IoT and connected vehicle fields, conducting business around five major directions: standards, technology, ecosystem, security, and services. It will integrate industrial chain resources, solve the problem of fragmentation, promote the development of eSIM technology and global ecosystem layout, and help industrial standardization and collaborative innovation.
The establishment of the RISC-V Sub-Committee aims to empower billions of IoT terminals with RISC-V, OpenHarmony, and AI, promoting the transformation from "dumb terminals" to lightweight intelligent terminals. Hisilicon Technology Co., Ltd. will serve as the first president unit. The sub-committee will carry the industrial ecosystem of OpenHarmony/RISC-V, formulate and promote globally influential technical standards, fully integrate the existing OpenHarmony/RISC-V industry ecosystem resources and capabilities, and achieve partner collaborative development and win-win through "platform + capability."
The establishment of the Smart Home Working Committee, the eSIM IoT Technology Special Committee, and the RISC-V Sub-Committee marks the further improvement of the consortium's layout in key areas such as smart home appliances and homes, IoT communication, and deep synergy between OpenHarmony and RISC-V. It will strongly promote the collaborative development and innovative breakthroughs of related industries.
The attending representatives also had in-depth discussions on the consortium's development direction, technical collaboration, industrial cooperation, internationalization, and talent cultivation. All representatives congratulated Chairman Gao Tongqing on his election and expressed confidence in the consortium's future development. The representatives stated that they would participate in the consortium's work with more resources and greater investment, and strengthen contact and cooperation with member units through the consortium's platform to jointly promote the consortium to achieve new results and contribute new solutions.
In the future, the Global Intelligent Internet of Things Consortium will continue to join hands with global industrial chain partners to jointly promote the OpenHarmony intelligent interconnection ecosystem to the world and make greater contributions to the development of the global intelligent Internet of Things industry.