Zhongtian Technologies optical fiber The mainstay of optical fiber industry

China Mobile invited competitive bidding for optical fiber G.652B and G.652D in 2007, Total volume of the bidding is 5 million kilometers, Zhongtian Technologies optical fiber co., ltd successfully won the bidding from numerous optical fiber manufacturers the quantity of bidding is almost one million kilometers and the total amount is nearly 80 million RMB, Sharing 20 percent of the total quantity of China Mobile'opitical fiber of this year.
Nowadays,Zhongtian Technologies optical fiber has become an important mainstay in this industry .Being one enterprise of only four years old ,how to attract China Mobile ?Journalist interviewed the general manager Shen Yichun of Zhongtian Technologies optical fiber with the question .he said they can make it with the operators by its advanced technical capabilities, good quality guarantee and first-class level of service.
The hope of national industry
China optical communications started earlier, it began this work under the atmosphere on the early 1970s. China had developed the first-quartz fiber in 1977. and built the cable communications test system of city in Beijing and Shanghai two years later. These results means this is the good beginning of optical communication in China and made China become one of the countries owning optical cable communication test system at that time . By 2000, the total length of China optical cable key lines reached 1.2millions kilometers and built 23 first -grade lines which formed the nationwide cable network entry of "eight primary lines in a crisscross fashion" and covers more than 70% provincial capital cities throughout the country. But, nothing is so certain as the unexpected, China's optical communications market dropped from the peak of the bottom in 2001.At that time ,USA and Japan owned the Highly sophisticated products of optical cables- optical fiber and optical preform. There are lots of cable companies in China ,But the condition of optical fiber industry is not ripe for producing. Most of domestic cable companies had no fiber to make cables. The demand of optical fiber in the china market exceeded the supply seriously, The price of fiber went up gradually and surpassed it's market value. It had a great influence on the huge cost of China communications construction and development of the communications network. In 2002 and 2003,The foreign enterprises expanded production disorderly and the international optical communication adjusted, Large amount of surplus fiber from abroad was dumped to China market .The optical communication market of China slipped thanks to the reason above.
With this background, Zhongtian Technologies realized that China's fiber optical cable industry depended on foreign enterprises is the main reason for restraining China cable industry development. The fiber market was dull, but Zhongtian Technologies firmly made decision to start up the Zhongtian Optical fiber co., ltd in 2003. After that ,Hengtong Group , Fiberhome and the others entered into this industry as well as, the Chinese fiber industry formed large scale gradually . Shen Yijun said that at the beginning the company could only produce around one million kilometers, but four years later the capacity of annual production already exceed five million kilometer, listing the top three in China. Because Zhongtian technologies optical fiber and the other fiber company is expanding, the cable manufactories of China toward fiber industry, this is the solid foundation which let China become the world's fiber manufacturing center.
Four keys to success
Although Zhongtian Technologies Optical Fiber Co., Ltd operated for short time, their achievement dazzled the world .Shen Yijun said the core competency on product quality,technical innovation,competion of Brand and talented people strategy is the successful factors for Zhongtian Technologies Optical Fiber.

The First : Quality of product.
At the beginning of investment, Zhongtian Technologies optical fiber positioned high starting point, high standards and strict requirements to connect with international environment. They introduced lots of advanced fiber production technology of new generation,world-class production line and testing equipment from Japan ,Germany and USA to make sure the stability and reliability of production technique .It passed the national identification in the first year. In August 2003, the Zhongtian Technology Fiber also got the certificate from the British BSI and ISO 9001; Zhongtian Technologies optical fiber passed the authentication of Taier In May 2006 and passed the ISO14000 environmental authentication in June.
The Second: Technical Innovation.
Zhongtian Technologies optical fiber considers technical innovation as foothold. They care the technology and R&D, was supported by the two optical fiber research centers (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications and Shanghai Jiao Tong University) and one Lab named Zhejiang University-Zhontian Technologies united Lab, selected special person engaged in research and development of optical fiber. In August 2004. Zhongtian Technologies optical fiber researched successful fiber drawing D. G.652 owned intellectual property rights independently. Jan 2006, as international FTTH and the domestic FTTH rise. Zhongtian Technologies optical fiber developed new anti-bending ZFOC_R15 single-mode fiber compliant with ITU G. 657 standards to apply the future large-scale construction of FTTH. In August, 2006 Zhongtian Technologies optical fiber started to develop high-strength fiber and in Oct produced successful the high-intensity large span (150 km) fiber for sea floor.
Currently, Zhongtian Technologies has developed a new generation of multi-mode fiber for 3G and 4G mobile communications and greatly reduce the cost of the system.
The Third: Competition of Brand.
Zhongtian Technologies optical fiber always focused on building their own brands. Good quality of product is the basis of getting users and is also a prerequisite for building brands. They also emphasized the customer service and work the whole day, they also can be on the spot 48 hours later if customer need help. they won the trust of China Mobile, China Telecom, China Netcom and China Unicom by their prominent supply performance, excellent performance indicators, strong technical strength, excellent after-sales service system. Currently, Zhongtian Technologies optical fiber has been accepted by the majority of operators.
The Fourth: Talented People Strategy.
Zhongtian Technologies optical fiber comes up with the concept of "knowledge is the capital" and pay attention to the introduction of senior professionals. They hired the doctor Yang Shengyi as Principal Consultant who is former Xikang Asia-Pacific Technical Director and former Corning Cable Sales Director of China district. They also employed Zhang Xianmin for Senior Technical Advisor who is the well-known optical communications experts ,vice president of the information school of Zhejiang University, And the same time introduce a number of post-doctoral researchers to do the research of the optical fiber technology, relying on postdoctoral technological innovation centers of Zhongtian Technologies Group. Zhongtian Technologies optical fiber sent a lot of outstanding management and technical expertise to Zhejiang University,Shanghai Jiaotong University,Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications and other domestic first-class university for MBA, Master of Engineering . It is good foundation for the concept of "knowledge is the capital".
Combine challenges the development opportunity
China's optical development can not independent from the domestic and international communication system as well as the informationization environment. To speak exactly, in the following year of 2007 China's opticals will keep on progress drawing by 3G network construction, FTTH construction, rural information, country communication and the operator's "optic replacing copper" strategy. Shen Yichun said because the 3G frequency is higher than the 2G, the wireless' nature determines that 3G base is overlapped 20% of the 2G under the same covering capacity,density and area. If as per fifty thousand base increased every year and each base uses 3Km optical cable, and every cable 24 counts optic fiber, the optic fiber will be increased will reach about 3 million kilo meters, really a big apple for Zhongtian Technologies optical fiber
Shen also said, in order to meet the challenge and opportunity, they will rapid the step to utilize unit strategy. The optic fiber is still a seller's market, but the polarization is large, which is embodied by the operator's collect stock, Changfei and ZTT fiber supply falls shorts of demand while other factory is lacking of order. The supply exceeds demand market situation determines the atrocious environment, under the absolute supply exceeds demand and relatively demands exceeds supply situation, China's optic fiber should employ the market adjustment to get the balance of supply and demand in order to walk out the dilemma. Under the situation that the demand can not increase obviously, to get this balance, industrial conformity is the only choice. Actually, China's optic fiber industrial conformity have started, the bad environment quicken the conformity to some extent. Zhongtian and Changfei's cooperation set the milestone and setup a good foundation for China's optic industrial development.
ZTT and Changfei's rapid progress proved that their integration is successful. The future Chinese optic integration will continue, only through the enterprise integration and resource integration's way the Chinese optic industry can walk out the valley and form a good developing environment, and set up a good foundation for the Chinese optic fiber industry to walk the world.