On the evening of November 5th, I met a couple of Chinese Taiwanese couples in Paris. Their daughter just graduated from New York University, so she took her daughter to Europe to play as a graduation gift for her. When they knew that I was from Beijing, they first asked me if I was attending an exhibition at Huawei. I said yes. They told me that the day before yesterday they came to Paris from the Netherlands and chatted with a person sitting next to them and learned that the other party was also attending this event of Huawei. The latter claimed to be a European partner of Huawei.
Huawei Innovation Day on November 4th and Huawei’s European Ecology Conference on November 5th made Huawei one of the focus topics in the European technology industry for at least these two days. In the past few days, French President Mark Long is participating in the second China International Import Expo held in Shanghai.
If it is a coincidence, it is also an inevitable coincidence. We are on behalf of the people of the two countries to carry out cultural and technological exchanges on each other’s land to make up for the increasingly traumatic trauma of the world.
In the past two days, I have seen that Huawei has a unique appeal to Europe. Take the European Innovation Day on November 4th as an example. This year is the seventh. Nearly 400 people from European countries such as the United Kingdom, France, Italy and other countries gather in the Rothschild Residence in the center of Paris. It is not so much. Huawei’s open communication with its European partners is worse than Huawei’s glamour offensive against Europe.
Huawei has been rooted in Europe for nearly 20 years, and ‘Europe is Europe.’ Huawei has always adhered to the idea of integrating into Europe and contributing to Europe. It hopes to bring greater value to customers and partners in Europe through Huawei’s innovative capabilities. Xu Wenwei, president of Huawei’s Strategic Research Institute, said that Huawei’s success is in line with global mainstream standards. “Only mainstream standards can breed large industries and become leaders. Huawei uses the world’s most advanced technologies, components, software and platforms. The world is synchronized to make progress faster.”
He uses a series of numbers to support his words–
1) Huawei has cooperated with more than 400 industry organizations around the world, and has joined 44 standards and industry organizations in Europe, contributing more than 2,000 contributions and contributing technical standards with industry players;
2) In terms of 5G, Huawei has achieved global standard collaboration in the 5G field through 5GPPP and European partners, defining the pace and direction of global 5G basic research and promoting the development of 5G industry;
3) In the new industries such as autonomous driving and intelligent manufacturing, 5GAA was established with partners such as Audi, BMW and Daimler, and 5GACIA and other industrial associations were established with partners such as ABB, Siemens and Bosch.Alliance explores incubation and joint innovation;
4) Huawei also serves on the board of directors in more than 400 key organizations including IEEE-SA, BBF, ETSI, TMF, Linaro, Openstack, OPNFV and CCSA…
The most common word he uses is “partner.”
Pete Collings, head of economic influence consulting at the Oxford Economics Institute in Europe and the Middle East, used a “Huawei European Impact Report” to stand on a third-party perspective and used a rigorous and detailed data to evaluate Huawei’s European economy. Influence.
The report pointed out that in 2018, Huawei’s direct impact on Europe was 2.5 billion euros. This figure is more than twice that of 2014, directly employing 13,300 employees; the indirect impact on Europe is 5.4 billion euros. Mainly in Europe, it has created 80,000 supply chain jobs and 1.8 billion euros in taxes; the induced impact on Europe (mainly consumed by Huawei and supply chain employees) is consumed by 90,000 employees. Contributing 4.9 billion euros to European GDP, these consumer behaviors have created 76,000 jobs and 2 billion euros in taxes.
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Overall, Huawei’s economic contribution to Europe in 2018 totaled 12.8 billion euros, and the annual growth rate from 2014 to 2018 was 19%.
In addition, Huawei’s contribution to taxation reached 5.6 billion euros in 2018, Pete Collings said: “The average education and medical industry wages are about 40,000 euros in annual salary, while 5.6 billion euros is equivalent to 136,000 European education. And the annual salary of employees in the medical industry.”
“As a European, we know that Huawei’s influence in Europe far exceeds income, employees, supply chain and consumption.” Pete Collings said of Huawei’s influence on Europe, “We look at Huawei’s innovation and R&D. ,can watchIt really promotes the production potential of the European economy, even the potential of the global economy, that is, longer-term economic growth, and is worldwide.
In 2018, Huawei provided 169,700 jobs to Europe through direct, indirect, and induced effects.
When asked how to balance the relationship between technological innovation and privacy protection, Xu Wenwei replied: “Huawei firmly supports information security and privacy protection. At the same time, everyone knows that information security, privacy protection and network security are not What a company can do requires the cooperation of all organizations in the industry, including the government.”
Two suggestions were made to Xu Wenwei –
One is to develop standards and frameworks. “It’s not that you don’t have information security or your network is not safe, you are not safe, there should be certain fact-based standards”;
The second is verifiable and testable. “This test is best done by a third-party, relatively neutral organization. In the current situation, Huawei has gone further than the industry. We have established security centers and verification centers in the UK, Brussels, and Bonn.”
Talking about Huawei’s investment in innovation and R&D, Xu Wenwei said that Huawei’s research and development costs in 2018 reached 15 billion US dollars, ranking the top 5 among all companies in the world. The company has more than 80,000 R&D personnel worldwide, accounting for about 45% of the total. “As early as 1996, when Huawei was still very young, it was clear that the cost of pre-research must account for more than 10% of R&D expenses. Now it is required to increase to more than 20%, which means that it will be 20 to 3 billion US dollars per year. To the cutting edge and basic technology research.”
As early as April 2015 at the Huawei analyst conference, Huawei’s rotating chairman Xu Zhijun emphasized: “In the future, our annual investment scale will remain at 10 billion to 20 billion US dollars, thus ensuring Huawei’s digital society and intelligence. Society does not fall behind.”
Through the financial reports of recent quarters, Huawei has indeed saved money on research and development according to this scale. There is often a voice in the outside world that the amount of R&D investment is not necessarily proportional to the acquisition of patented technology and the ability to innovate in technology. However, Huawei’s leading position in 5G technology is precisely because of its long-term high investment in the past, so to a certain extent It can be said that Huawei’s innovation is made out of money. This is all over the world.
Xu Wenwei said: “Huawei has more than 60 basic technology laboratories, more than 700 mathematics doctors, and more than 200 Ph.D. in physics and chemistry. These guarantee Huawei’s continued technological leadership.”
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