Newland Guotong Xingyi, Shanhao Intelligence, and China Post Guangdong Branch Team Up for Digital Commerce Future

At the beginning of the new year, Newland Guotong Xingyi and Shanhao Intelligence secured 10 bids in the 2023 China Post Guangdong Branch Smart Payment Scenario Software and Hardware Procurement Project, a significant step in supporting the Branch's development of a comprehensive smart scenario ecosystem.

China Post Guangdong Branch ranks among the top in scale within China's postal system, with over 3,000 physical outlets across the province, reaching deep into grassroots levels in townships with extensive service coverage. It has fully recognized the business strengths of Guotong Xingyi and Shanhao Intelligence, deeming them ideal partners for contributing to the holistic development of the smart scenario ecosystem for the Branch.

Drawing on extensive experience and practical insights gained in the digital commerce field, with a deep understanding of the actual operational needs of merchants, Guotong Xingyi and Shanhao Intelligence have developed an extensive range of smart scenario solutions covering 12 major industries and 46 sub-scenarios. While addressing key operational pain points for merchants in areas such as scenario-based payment, inventory management, membership marketing, and supply chain management, these solutions can empower them and drive their growth by simplifying store management and streamlining business operations.

Based on the 10 winning scenarios, Guotong Xingyi and Shanhao Intelligence will provide solutions for smart retail, smart supermarkets, smart agricultural markets, smart healthcare, smart education, smart communities, smart religion, smart transportation, and smart cultural tourism, accelerating the digital transformation and upgrading of merchants, and driving high-quality development in digital commerce.

Among them, the smart retail solution, encompassing aggregated payment processing, omnichannel marketing, private domain traffic marketing, refined business management, and flexible organizational restructuring, effectively addresses the pain points of traditional retail, driving digital upgrades in retail and creating new consumer experiences for the future. The smart supermarket solution, integrating professional retail ERP software, provides a comprehensive suite of services including cloud deployment, mobile business management, seamless online-offline integration, robust private domain operations support, and full marketing activity support. Paired with digital payment printers, this solution links the entire business chain, from factories to logistics, warehousing, and stores, all in a one-stop, comprehensive "omnichannel + full-chain" solution. That is, the solution can enable merchants to achieve a comprehensive digital upgrade across all aspects of their business (people, goods, and locations), from procurement to sales.

The smart agriculture market solution centers around a smart agriculture market cloud platform, offering functions such as smart management, smart cashier services, smart supervision, smart publicizing, and smart marketing. It seeks to create a market-oriented, chain-operated, digital, and supply chain-integrated smart agriculture market, fostering the construction of convenient living circles. The smart healthcare solution creates a mobile hospital accessible via WeChat official accounts, offering end-to-end services for pre-diagnosis, during-diagnosis, and post-diagnosis phases. It also builds a one-stop internet hospital with seamless data connectivity and develops smart pharmacies incorporating retail cloud platforms and medical insurance processing services. So the solution can contribute to the digital upgrade of healthcare, improving the effectiveness of digital diagnosis and treatment. The smart education solution, centered around facial recognition and IoT technology, integrates intelligent perception terminals to address core pain points such as campus safety, campus consumption, parent-school interaction, logistics management, and academic affairs administration, greatly enhancing campus security levels and management efficiency.

The smart community solution, through developing an integrated SaaS system management platform covering property management, parking lot management, elevator control, access control, smart charging station management, and security management, enables data visualization and centralized control, accelerating the digital transformation of the community and supporting urban grid management. The smart religious solution addresses the needs and pain points of both believers and religious management by creating a data visualization platform accompanied by electronic donation terminals. This solution streamlines daily religious affairs through digital means, creating a smart religious ecosystem. The smart transportation solution integrates transportation resources through an "Internet+" approach and uses such technologies as IoT sensor controllers and mobile payments. By tapping into platforms like the Internet, big data, and cloud computing, it incorporates various smart identification techniques, diverse electronic payment methods, remote anomaly management, mobile device management, and revenue-enhancing services to build a smart transportation service platform that enhances efficiency and reduces costs in traffic management. The smart cultural tourism solution offers a comprehensive operations management platform that features ticketing management, distribution management, marketing management, an integrated online and offline portal, and unified operations and financial management, creating a digitally collaborative cultural tourism ecosystem.

By leveraging their extensive experience and strong reputation in the digital commerce sector, Guotong Xingyi and Shanhao Intelligence have secured multiple contracts for scenario service projects at both national and provincial levels. In 2022, Shanhao Intelligence secured 3 bids for the China Post Guangdong Branch Smart Payment Scenario Software and Hardware Procurement Project, focusing on supermarkets, campuses, and dining categories. These corresponding smart scenario solutions have been implemented in nearly 20 cities across Guangdong Province, empowering merchants with enhanced management and operations, while also assisting the local postal service in acquiring new customers and boosting financial assets.

In recent years, China Post Guangdong Branch has embraced the "Digital Guangdong" initiative to accelerate its digital postal development. Through innovative business modules like rural revitalization, "Micro Postal Pay," "Micro Postal Benefit," "Mini Postal Accommodation," "Postal Salary Collection," legal postal, police postal, the "Postal Credential" and other mini-programs, the Branch has developed a range of digital products and services that highlight the Branch's dedication to integration in the "Internet+" era, showcasing its service philosophy, product offerings, and strength, while reinforcing its role as a key player on the national stage in connecting people to a better life.

Digital commerce has become an essential trend in the evolution of the digital economy. With ongoing technological advancements and applications, new models and opportunities in digital commerce will continue to arise. By applying their technological prowess and service expertise to digital commerce, Guotong Xingyi and Shanhao Intelligence will continue to collaborate with China Post Guangdong Branch to strengthen the infrastructure of smart scenarios, striving to merge digital commerce with the real economy and exploring the endless potential of a digital future.