French.china.org.cn | Updated on 03-03-2023
The Mobile World Congress (MWC), one of the world’s most important events for mobile technologies, has returned “in full force”, John Hoffman, chairman and CEO of GSMA, an industry association, told Xinhua on Thursday. representing the largest mobile operators in the world and organizer of this event.
This year’s MWC Barcelona closed on Thursday with a confirmed number of 88,500 visitors from 202 countries and regions around the world, including around 5,000 from China.
“The level of energy and support from our partners, businesses and policy makers has exceeded our expectations,” Hoffman said.
According to the GSMA, more than 2,400 exhibitors, sponsors and partners were present at this trade show organized from February 27 to March 2, including 150 from China, as well as more than 1,000 speakers and specialists, to cover and discuss the most important topics. important to the telecom industry, from 5G connectivity and artificial intelligence to cloud computing and the usage gap.
MWC is an opportunity for technology companies to launch and showcase their latest products and innovations, and this year was marked by high expectations of what industry giants such as Huawei, Oppo , ZTE, Nokia, Samsung and Ericsson. MWC is primarily about phones. Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi took advantage of this show to present the new generation of Xiaomi 13 and 13 Pro smartphones, while Honor also unveiled its new Magic5 series.