Huawei’s “past and present life”

Mr. Ren Zhengfei once said: There are currently two emotions towards Huawei. One is a clear patriotism to support Huawei, and the other is the belief that Huawei has kidnapped the patriotic sentiments of the whole society. Ren Zhengfei said that if you think that not buying Huawei is unpatriotic, then our children are unpatriotic because they also use Apple products. You must not be sensational or use things like populism.

With the launch of Huawei P50, this phone has a drawback that everyone complained about. The price of a 5G phone can only use 4G. I believe everyone must know the reason behind this. Xiaoyi’s position is quite clear. This is the courage of our country’s independent brands to break through technology monopoly. I love Huawei!

Huawei was founded in Shenzhen, Guangdong in 1987 and became the sales agent of a Hong Kong company that produces user exchanges (FBX).

In 1989, Huawei achieved its own breakthrough by independently developing FBX and commercializing it to hotels and small businesses.

Since the beginning of the golden era in the 1990s, Huawei has successively launched digital switches, access networks and optical network SDH, established a Shanghai R&D center, and passed CMM5 certification in 2004.

Exploiting the market

In 1996, Huawei's C&C08 machine was tested in Hong Kong and entered the Hong Kong local telephone network, opening many services that were not available in China. In the same year, Huawei seized the international relationship between China and Russia to form a strategic partnership and entered the CIS market in Russia. It took Huawei three years to lay 3,000 kilometers of optical fiber cables in Russia.

In 1998, Huawei set its sights on Europe and the United States. Although its first order in Europe and the United States at that time was only 38 US dollars, in 2001, Huawei signed an equipment supply contract worth tens of millions of dollars with the Russian Ministry of Communications.

In 2002, Huawei obtained another 3,797 kilometers of ultra-long national optical transmission trunk lines. The first 2G and 3G base stations were built in Germany. From the perspective of sales, Europe plays a decisive role.

Transforming Huawei

Major resignations from the marketing department

Huawei’s large-scale human resources system construction began in 1996. In January 1996, Huawei's marketing department resigned collectively. At that time, all full-time cadres in Huawei's marketing department, from the president of the marketing department to the directors of each regional office, and all cadres above the office director were required to submit two reports, one was a work report and the other was a resignation report. The recruitment process was carried out through competition. In response, the company approves one of the reports based on its performance, development potential and corporate development needs. During the competitive recruitment assessment, about 30% of the cadres were replaced.

In 1998, the "Huawei Basic Law", which was drafted for three years, was officially implemented. This is China's first "corporate constitution" and institutional system that summarizes corporate strategy, values, and business management principles.

In 1998, the product digital microcell server control switch was patented. Nanjing R&D center was established and passed CMM4 certification in June 2003.

In 1999, Huawei had 15,000 employees and sales exceeded 10 billion for the first time, reaching 12 billion yuan.

Global joint venture

In 2001, the non-core subsidiary Avansys was sold to Emerson for US$750 million. Set up four R&D centers in the United States. Join the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

In 2004, a joint venture was established with Siemens to develop TD-SCDMA mobile communication technology for the Chinese market. Obtained a contract worth more than US$25 million from Dutch operator Telfort, achieving its first major breakthrough in Europe.

In 2005, we won the contract to build a nationwide CDMA2000 3G network for Thailand CAT, worth US$187 million.

Donated US$5 million in cash and equipment to tsunami-stricken countries. Become a DSL partner of Australian operator Optus, providing DSL access equipment that supports high-speed data, voice (including IP voice services), video broadcasting and commercial services. Obtained a license to manufacture and sell mobile phones in China.

In 2008, it was named one of the ten most influential companies in the world by Business Week.

In 2008, 1,737 PCT patent applications were submitted***. According to statistics from the World Intellectual Property Organization, it ranked first in the list of patent application companies (persons) in 2008; the number of LTE patents accounted for 10% of the world. above.

After the Wenchuan earthquake, Huawei and its employees donated 26.3 million yuan in cash and 58 million yuan worth of emergency communication equipment to the disaster area. Ranked 44th in the 2008 Top 500 Chinese Enterprises jointly released by the China Enterprise Confederation and the China Entrepreneurs Association.

In 2009, the wireless access market share ranked second in the world. Be the first to release end-to-end 100G solutions from routers to transmission systems. Won the 2009 Outstanding Company Contribution Award from the IEEE Standards Organization. Won the "Business Emerging Award" from the Financial Times and was selected into the top five most innovative companies selected by Fast Company magazine in the United States.

In 2011, the GigaSite solution and the ubiquitous ultra-broadband network architecture U2Net were released. 20 cloud computing data centers have been built, and 10,000 people are expected to be invested in cloud computing. Huawei Honor mobile phone was launched, and smartphone sales reached 20 million units.

The "2012 Laboratory" was established through integration. Released HUAWEI SmartCare solution. Won 6 top LTE awards worldwide. Selected into the first batch of "National Technology Innovation Demonstration Enterprises".

Breaking through the blockade

On July 30, 2012, Huawei officially released the Emotion UI system in Beijing, realizing Huawei's purpose of sharing its own and unique applications.

As the main promoter of the EU 5G project and the initiator of the British 5G Innovation Center (5GIC), he released a 5G white paper, actively built a 5G global ecosystem, and conducted close joint research with more than 20 universities around the world; Huawei actively contributes to building future wireless technology development, industry standards, and industry chains.

The 400G router commercial solution has been recognized by 49 customers and has been put into commercial use on a large scale; in addition, Huawei also took the lead in releasing the 1T routing line card for the backbone router, as well as the 40T ultra-large capacity wavelength division prototype and the all-optical switching network AOSN New architecture.

It continues to lead global LTE commercial deployment and has entered more than 100 capital cities around the world, covering nine major financial centers.

Released the world’s first agile network architecture centered on business and user experience and the world’s first agile switch S12700 to meet the needs of new applications such as cloud computing, BYOD, SDN, Internet of Things, multi-services and big data. need.

2015 According to data released by the World Intellectual Property Organization, in terms of corporate patent application rankings in 2015, Huawei ranked first for the second consecutive year with 3,898 applications.

At the beginning of 2017, Huawei clarified its public cloud strategy. In August, Huawei issued an internal document announcing the adjustment of its organizational structure. The cloud business unit Cloud BU was upgraded to a first-level department and gained greater business autonomy. Previously, Cloud BU was a secondary department of Huawei, subordinate to the company's Products and Solutions Department. In September, Huawei announced that it would become the number one player in China's public cloud market in three years and enter the top five in the world.

As of June 6, 2019, Huawei has obtained 46 5G commercial contracts in 30 countries around the world, and has shipped more than 100,000 5G base stations.

On August 8, 2019, Huawei released the "Top Ten Trends for 2025". On August 9, Huawei officially released the Hongmeng system. On September 18, Huawei released the Atlas 900 AI training cluster.

On May 18, 2021, the China Electronic Components Industry Association disclosed that Huawei released its first optical fiber sensing product OptiXsense EF3000, an F5G all-optical industrial network solution for industrial scenarios, once again accelerating F5G landing application.

In June, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. applied to register the "OptiXsense" and "HUAWEI OptiXsense" trademarks, which are internationally classified as scientific instruments. The current trademark status is trademark application pending.

Huawei is always on the road, and we also hope that there are comrades and companions around him. Our country’s independent brands will eventually become stronger and stronger!