ZTE Corporation, a global leader in integrated information and communication technology solutions, has launched the innovative AI Agent Factory Co-Sight solution at MWC Shanghai 2025. This solution provides an efficient and flexible development framework along with an open platform to expedite the creation of AI Agent applications. In an era where digital and intelligent transformation is accelerating across sectors, AI is transitioning from being a supportive tool to a central pillar of productivity.
AI Agents, capable of autonomous thinking and action, are beginning to integrate into both personal lives and corporate operations. The AI Agent Factory Co-Sight offers various modular component workshops and a visual assembly workshop. The Tool & Skill Workshop integrates numerous tool plugins, supporting automatic mapping between natural language and plugin APIs for flexible functionality.
The Knowledge Workshop facilitates the creation, retrieval, and optimization of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) knowledge bases. The Large-Model Repository supports the on-demand integration of mainstream large models. The Co-Sight solution supports a multi-Agent collaborative architecture and introduces the Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) mechanism to intelligently identify concurrent nodes in task workflows.
This enables automatic multi-node parallelism, significantly enhancing the execution efficiency of AI Agent applications. The AI Agent Factory Co-Sight offers open interfaces that support mainstream industry protocols and are fully compatible with third-party tool plugins. It also provides an open platform featuring large-model markets, plugin markets, and data markets to foster the co-construction of AI Agent ecosystems.
ZTE is committed to strengthening its R&D initiatives in intelligent computing, ecological cooperation, and application practices. The company aims to empower all industries to accelerate AI application innovation and upgrades through advanced AI technologies and comprehensive product stacks. In its recently released Sustainability Report 2024, ZTE Corporation has detailed its strategy to integrate sustainable development within its corporate framework to bolster its competitive stance in the ICT sector.
The strategy hinges on internal control, compliance, and talent, aiming for proactive roles in global sustainability. Xie Junshi, EVP and COO of ZTE, emphasized the company’s embedding of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) criteria into all aspects of its operations, highlighting a commitment to innovation-driven and sustainable development. ZTE is a member of the UN Global Compact and the Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) and participates in the Partner2Connect (P2C) Digital Coalition initiated by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
Xu Ziyang, Executive Director and CEO of ZTE, noted the impact of the AI-driven technological revolution on global digital and intelligent transformation, stating that ZTE has risen to meet these challenges while driving the digital economy forward. ZTE received official approval from the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) for its near-term 1.5°C target and long-term net-zero targets. This made ZTE the first large-scale ICT tech company in China to secure dual approvals from SBTi, also securing a spot on the CDP A List.
In 2024, the company reduced its Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 13.4% year-on-year, and its combined Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions were reduced by 14.317 million tons compared to 2023. The telecom products sector achieved an 8.39% reduction in physical emissions intensity, while terminal products saw a 5.02% year-on-year reduction in absolute emissions over the entire product lifecycle. ZTE spearheads the “Green Digital Path” initiative, which focuses on green corporate operations, green supply chain, green digital infrastructure, and green empowerment of industries.
Energy efficiency improved by 20% in 2024 compared to 2021. CSR audits were conducted for 261 production suppliers in 2024, covering 86.90% of the top 90% of suppliers by procurement amount. ZTE completed carbon footprint assessments for 154 products across all its categories and helped 100 suppliers complete organizational-level carbon inventories.
The company also supported ten suppliers in setting carbon reduction targets.
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ZTE’s commitment to technological innovation includes advances in AI engineering, 5G-A standards, 6G technology, industry-academia collaboration, and intellectual property management.
By the end of 2024, ZTE had filed 93,000 global patent applications, with over 48,000 granted. ZTE established a Science and Technology Ethics Committee in 2024. This committee implements a technology ethics governance framework to ensure safe and ethical AI development.
ZTE has contributed to global digitalization and socio-economic development with initiatives such as the “Enhance Rural Area” project with Orange, which brought communications infrastructure to rural regions in Liberia, and emergency communications during Typhoon Yagi in Hainan. The company also supported a drone-based blood delivery system in Anyang to address urban medical logistics. ZTE achieves sustainability goals while growing business through tech innovation.
The 2024 report serves as a proof point: By deeply integrating sustainability into its business strategies, ZTE is now generating high-value results that are both good for the world and for the company’s bottom line. “Committed to innovation-driven and sustainable development, ZTE has embedded ESG into every aspect of its operations,” Xie Junshi, EVP and COO of ZTE, said in the report. While growing its revenues, ZTE achieved a 20% improvement in its energy efficiency in 2024, relative to its 2021 consumption.
ZTE achieved a 13.4% year-on-year reduction in Scope 1 and 2 emissions in 2024. The company continues to ramp up its R&D investments as a means of driving business growth and leading the way in ICT sustainability initiatives, with R&D spending accounting for 19.81% of total operating revenue last year. ZTE said in the report that it had filed 93,000 global patent applications as of December 31, 2024, with more than 48,000 granted to date.
Lately, R&D efforts have focused on AI, 5G-Advanced standards development, 6G development, and industry-academia research collaboration. In the AI field alone, the company has filed more than 5,000 patent applications, with almost half of them approved to this point. ZTE has filed around 5,500 applications related to chips, with more than 2,000 granted.
ZTE earned official approval for its near-term 1.5°C target and long-term net-zero targets. ZTE is the first large-enterprise ICT tech company in China to receive dual approvals from SBTi – and all the while it made the CDP “A” List. As of the end of 2024, ZTE’s memberships and roles include the UN Global Compact, Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative (GeSI), and Partner2Connect (P2C) Digital Coalition, initiated by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
ZTE is actively collaborating throughout the telco industry to show others the path toward integrating business growth with sustainability achievements. The 2024 report revealed that ZTE helped 100 suppliers conduct organization-wide carbon inventory and consulted with 10 suppliers on setting carbon reduction targets and measurements. ZTE also conducted 261 on-site CSR audits of suppliers and performed carbon-footprint assessments of 154 different products across all categories.
Recognizing the emerging risks and challenges associated with massive, mainstream use of AI, ZTE last year established the Science and Technology Ethics Committee to advance the cause of ethical AI governance. It’s applying a similar philosophy to its internal adoption of AI, creating an ethical governance framework used to evaluate AI-related R&D projects on a case-by-case basis. The report notes that sustainability isn’t just a matter of money, technology, or emissions.
It’s about people. To that end, ZTE achieved 100% employee training coverage in 2024. It also holds the ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems certification, covering 30 different countries as of last year.
That mindset extends outside of the company: ZTE and Orange collaborated on the Enhance Rural Area project to deliver ICT to remote areas of Liberia, connecting more than 580,000 people in the process.
Kirstie a technology news reporter at DevX. She reports on emerging technologies and startups waiting to skyrocket.
