China Unicom is planning to restructure its business and management systems. The company’s individual customer and household customer divisions will be combined under one head; the divisions for fixed line network construction, fixed line network maintenance and mobile network will be integrated into a new branch; and the information division will be composed of the existing information management and business support divisions. The company is set to build an institute to undertake all its research and development activity and another company to run its navigation and other value-added services business. The divisions for risk management, legal affairs, financial information and government affairs will also be combined. China Unicom was incorporated in 2008 through a merger of China Unicom and China Netcom Group Corporation (Hong Kong). The merger comprised 28 business divisions and a mobile network company.
