By Jun 31, 2007, China Unicom Co., Ltd (SEHK# 0762, NYSE# CHU) reached total mobile phone users of 15.1632 million. In the first half of 2007, the company had a total income of 49.17 billion RMB, increasing by 5.1% from same period of previous year; its pretax profit was 5.65 billion RMB, more than 38.9% from same period of previous year; its adjusted profit was 3.77 billion RMB, more than 34.6% from same period of previous year.

China Unicom Communications Co., Ltd launched the full implementation of its brand sales strategy, under which its “World Wind”, “New Power”, “Ruyitong”, and “New Time Space” brand names are under development. Its CDMA / GSM double-network, double-communication terminal technology won the top prize of the China Communication Institute’s Technological Advancement Awards.