Huawei unveiled its first smart village in Zambia, achieving connectivity to internet, education, and healthcare

Huawei unveiled Zambia's first smart village site in Muzila Village, Namwara District, Southern Province, achieving connectivity to the internet, education, and healthcare. The President of the Republic of Zambia, Hakuende Hicklema, attended the unveiling ceremony and delivered a speech.

[Muzila, Zambia, July 17, 2024]

Huawei unveiled Zambia's first smart village site in Muzila Village, Namwara District, Southern Province. The President of the Republic of Zambia, Hakuende Hicklema, attended the unveiling ceremony and delivered a speech. The unveiling event was attended by the Zambian Minister of Science and Technology, Minister of Education, Minister of Information and Media, Minister of Green Economy and Environment, Minister of Energy, and other senior government officials.

The Muzila Smart Village site includes a micro solar power station that can provide power to a local school, a clinic, and surrounding teacher residences and households. It also includes a communication tower in the village, which uses Huawei's Rural Star technology solution to provide mobile and Internet connection services for the village. In addition, the school classrooms are equipped with Huawei IdeaHub and smart blackboards, which can achieve remote education functions.

President of the Republic of Zambia Hakkende Hicklema visits microgrid solar power station

At the unveiling ceremony, Zambian President Hakkende Hicklema first visited the smart village site. In his speech, he praised Huawei's implementation of the Smart Village project and encouraged continued strengthening of cooperation with the Zambian government to achieve more goals that benefit the local people. He stated that the project aims to replicate the smart village of Muzila to other regions across the country. He is pleased to see that 100 villages will become the same smart village, which will further improve the lives of rural people. At the same time, this project will also alleviate the electricity challenge faced this year.

Zambian President Hakeand Hicklema delivers a speech

Mr. Wang Sheng, Charg é d'affaires of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Zambia, expressed appreciation for the milestone achievements of cooperation between the Zambian government and Huawei. He expressed that China agrees to be a developing country and a pillar country in agriculture, with a similar historical trajectory of development. Rural development has always been the foundation of our common security and the necessity of governing the country, and it is the most important concern of the heads of state and governments of the two countries. The smart village project is in line with Zambia's national information and communication strategy, and is another manifestation of China Zambia cooperation to achieve high-quality development. It will promote Zambia's mobile and Internet connectivity, remote education and medical care, especially through the construction of solar power plants to achieve power coverage in remote rural areas. The donation today is only for the model points of the Baicun project. In the future, it will be promoted nationwide after the successful pilot. In September this year, the new Forum on China Africa Cooperation Summit will be held in Beijing, where Chinese and African leaders will once again gather to explore deepening mutually beneficial cooperation between the two sides within the framework of the forum. We look forward to more projects that benefit people's livelihoods, promote high technology, and facilitate future cooperation between China and Zambia, in order to achieve more fruitful results in the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries.

Speech by Mr. Wang Sheng, Charg é d'affaires of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Zambia

Huawei's Vice President for Sub Saharan Africa, Li Fei, explained the significance of the smart village project at the unveiling ceremony. He stated that connectivity is the driving force behind people moving towards a better future, and achieving interconnectivity and digital transformation is crucial. The implementation of Muzila Smart Village has achieved connectivity to the internet, electricity, education, and healthcare. I hope that in the future, all villages in Zambia can achieve smart 'village to village connectivity'.

He thanked the Zambian government and president for their continued support for Huawei. And it is stated that Muzila Smart Village is only the starting point, not the end point. In the future, Huawei will replicate the model of Muzila Smart Village and promote it to 100 villages in Zambia. Huawei hopes to work together with the Zambian government to accelerate Zambia's connectivity and digitalization process.

Huawei's Vice President for Sub Saharan Africa, Li Fei, delivers a speech

After the unveiling ceremony, in the presence of the Zambian President, Huawei and the Zambian government signed a memorandum of cooperation on "Smart Villages in 100 Villages" in Zambia, laying a strategic cooperation direction for further building more smart villages in Zambia.

Huawei and Zambian government sign memorandum of understanding on Zambia's' Smart Villages for 100 Villages'

In September 2023, President Hakkend Hicklema paid a state visit to China, during which he visited Huawei's Shenzhen headquarters. The Zambian government has signed a memorandum of understanding with Huawei to strengthen the digital partnership, emphasizing that Huawei and the Zambian government need to collaborate at all levels to accelerate Zambia's digital transformation and achieve an inclusive and sustainable digital Zambia.

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