On October 15, 2008 (September 17, 2008 lunar calendar), China Netcom and China Unicom officially merged. China Netcom and China Unicom officially merged. On October 15, 2008, China Netcom and China Unicom officially merged to form "China United Network Communications Co., Ltd.". The new company name will be "China United Network Communications Co., Ltd.", and the abbreviation will still be China Unicom. The official location of the new company will be mainly the original China Netcom building, but the original China Unicom headquarters building will also assume some office responsibilities. On that day, China Unicom also released a new logo, which actually means that after six years of ups and downs, the China Netcom brand will withdraw from the stage of history. The China Netcom building on Financial Street has been officially replaced with the China Unicom logo. Netcom's employees and business halls will be gradually merged into Unicom, and the business halls will be uniformly labeled with the new logo of China Unicom. By then, the number of new Unicom's own business halls will reach 18,000, which can relieve the pressure caused by Unicom's previous transfer of all business halls below the northern county to China Telecom.