Zhengfei attended the ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Content) coding competition for university students yesterday. He talked with students about the company, technology, future goals, and various other relevant topics.

During an interrogation with students, Ren said the U.S. has openness and inclusivity in its tech community that benefits it in every field including the chipmaking sector.

Ren believes that Huawei can learn from the receptive culture of the US as it makes the country advance in science and technology. The founder adds the US ban led Huawei to build its tech as it cannot access advanced tools from foreign markets.

“The US has set an example for all countries and companies worldwide on being open. If a country is closed off, it will fall behind.” – says Ren Zhengfei.

US vs Huawei

US sanctions hit Huawei in 2019 due to security concerns. As of now, the foreign authorities tightened the trade controls to continue blocking Huawei from accessing advanced chipmaking tools or equipment.

However, these restrictions have also shown some positive results. Due to the US ban, Huawei started marching on the self-sufficiency path and making the country self-dependent rather than relying on foreign goods, AI chips, and software.

“American technologies and tools are very good… [but] Huawei cannot use them; we had no choice but to create our tools. Open innovation and utilizing the advanced achievements of others is the true way forward for an enterprise.” – Ren Zhengfei.

The executive also believes that AI is becoming unstoppable. It is creating turning points for many firms. If Huawei uses AI in the best ways, it could achieve more success in the time ahead. However, the company needs to put more effort into being at the top in the AI race.

Huawei had no choice but to build its own tech following the US ban: Founder (Image Credits: Huawei/X)

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Ren Zhengfei – the founder and CEO of Huawei recently visited Sichuan University. During the discussions and his keynote, the executive stated that Huawei seeks new talents to overcome challenges and technological shortcomings in the company.

He adds that these new talents will also play a vital role in dealing with critical issues and problems, faced by the industry. Thus together, both newly talented employees and the company will achieve great milestones in the future.

It is not the first time that Huawei is hunting for new talents. After being banned by the U.S. authorities, Huawei initiated the “Genius Youth” programme several times to recruit better, smarter, and more talented employees for the firm.

“Huawei will save talent, not US dollars”, Ren said last year in his speech and emphasized the importance of talented people in the industry. Most of these are being picked from top research honors winners with impactful and tangible results.

Huawei Founder Ren Zhengfei visits Sichuan University (Image Credits: ITHome)

Ren Zhengfei strongly believes that China needs ‘pure’ research that is not driven by applied science. The term pure reflects the focus on advancing theory rather than waiting for results regarding a particular goal or product.

Huawei continued the quest for new talents since 2020 and visited the top and oldest public universities in this journey for talents with high values.

Some other universities in this list count:

1. Shanghai’s prestigious Fudan University
2. Shanghai Jiao Tong University
3. Beijing Tsinghua University
4. Peking University
5. Chinese Academy of Sciences

Huawei’s Focus:

The Chinese phone maker currently focuses on the semiconductor part. When the world is trying to lead with 2nm or 3nm processes, Huawei is still relying on the 7nm chip. The company says that this lag is due to US sanctions, which aren’t faced by others.

Another reason is the lack of advanced chip equipment that can help the company in making better processors. Yet Huawei is making efforts to overcome these challenges in the time ahead. Read More…

Despite several obstacles, Huawei’s AI chips are better than its rivals like Nvidia with 20% more efficiency. A few tests proved that Nvidia needs more effort to chase its customers in the Chinese market. Yet to win the semiconductor race, Huawei needs to build advanced chips.

Huawei is looking for new talents to overcome its shortcomings: Executive (Image Credits: Huawei)

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He said that Huawei will not sell products that are advanced enough. If the company can’t sell advanced products, it won’t obtain high prices to support its staff.

Ren also explained this statement, that Huawei is facing increasingly severe external difficulties. However, he also said that his company will become more prosperous as time goes by.

Ren Zhengfei said that the Chinese industry needs a better standard system than the US. He mentioned that the American standard system was designed in the 1970s, which is over 50 years ago. These are optimized and changed with each generation.

Ren Zhengfei also shared their view on Euler and HarmonyOS, saying that both of these software codes are donated to open-source foundations. However, the company still insists on investing thousands of people and billions of yuan in this section each year.

Currently, there are over 30 operating systems in China that are based on open-source HarmonyOS. These OS are built for various platforms including smartphones, tablets, smart home devices, and more

Coming to the ERP, he said that MetaERP is gathering attention from the industry and it could easily integrate with cloud technologies.

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The founder emphasized in his speech “Huawei will save talent, not US dollars”, which he delivered on July 28th.

“We will try hard to lead in some business aspects globally, not all aspects. For our products, the boundary can be relatively narrow, but our research boundary can be wider,” said Huawei founder.

However, his focus also turned toward talent pool development and advised existing talent to work with passion.

“I think the material reward is not that important,” he said. “The first thing is that [the worker] finds a position he has passion for … If he can work on something he is interested in, he will have no regrets.”

Huawei shared the transcript after the release of the Huawei Mate 60 series on August 29. This release marks a successful return of 5G in Huawei devices nearly after 3 years of US sanctions.

Talent recruitment has long been important for Huawei. Ren initiated a program known as “Top Minds” in 2019, just months after the company was blacklisted by the US government. That recruitment drive, later dubbed the “Genius Youth” program, gave priority to candidates whose research had produced “tangible and impactful” results and winners of top research honors, according to an advertisement posted by Huawei on Weibo at the time.

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On July 1, 2015, Huawei Community published an interesting article “To Live a Life Full of Difficulties Happily – A Letter to Chen Zhufang and Members of the Party Committee” written by Ren Zhengfei.

Mr. Ren mentioned that the number of Huawei employees suffering from depression and anxiety disorders is very worrying and continuously increasing. He emphasized that “Depression is caused by self-torture.” He suggests that employees should be guided to understand the elegant culture and life and face the shortness of life positively, decently, and openly.

Employees don’t have to torture themselves and remember that only struggle will be beneficial. Society, don’t lose confidence in life at any time and in any situation.

Ren Zhengfei said that employees don’t have to worry too much about their weaknesses. Instead, they should completely focus on their strengths and fill themselves full of self-confidence to resolve all of the issues.

He also wants people to acknowledge that there is a difference between people and their capabilities but people must keep on moving forward.

To motivate employees, Mr. Ren revealed that he once also encountered this issue including severe depression and anxiety. Furthermore, the letter mentioned that he took the help of doctors and his openness and optimism, and he was completely cured.

“I believe that everyone can get out of the plight of anxiety and depression,” said Huawei Founder.

According to WHO, an estimated 3.8% of the population experience depression, including 5% of adults (4% among men and 6% among women), and 5.7% of adults older than 60 years. Approximately 280 million people in the world have depression.

But it is important to stay on the line and keep on focusing on the strength.

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In early January 2023, MetaERP launched MetaERP. The old ERP supports the efficient operation of sales, supply, procurement, delivery, finance, and other businesses with an annual output value of hundreds of billions in 170+ countries around the world.

However, Huawei wanted to minimize the impact on the business, and at the same time give full play to the advanced nature of MetaERP and make business operations safer and more efficient. Huawei said it decided to switch over 200 subsidiaries around the world in two batches in 2023 to MetaERP.

Related – What is Huawei MetaERP and why it’s important?

The first batch of large-scale switching was carried out in May, involving 5 regional departments in Asia-Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Central Asia, Southern Africa, and Latin America, 6 accounting sharing centers, 75 countries, and a total of 88 subsidiaries. The business covers ICT and Huawei Cloud, terminals, and other industries.

Transition within 15 hours

After half a year of program design and development, and through business verification, the switchover was started at 9:00 on May 13, and the cutover is planned to be completed within 24 hours.

Over thousands of employees from 5 regional departments, 6 accounting sharing centers, and 75 countries around the world now working with MetaERP’s global coverage.

At 0:00 on May 14th, the global switching command center announced that “MetaERP switched successfully in May”. The global project team completed a smooth cutover after 15 hours of hard work, 9 hours ahead of schedule. With this achievement, Huawei MetaERP entered the stable operation stage.

This successful switchover covers 90% of global tax laws and accounting standards and fully covers global sales, supply, procurement, delivery, financial and other scenarios. Also, it has built efficient cross-domain and cross-time zone collaborative combat capabilities, laying a solid foundation for MetaERP Base.

Given the fact with its easy to access interface and transition capability, Huawei founder gave a right statement about MetaERP.

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Mr. Ren is a core person behind Huawei’s survival in harsh conditions. He continues to push forward the tech firm and give it a new direction to maintain business growth in the industry.

His latest statement came during the MetaERP Commendation Meeting, where he met with the people behind the development of this software. He also thanked them for their active contribution to bring MetaERP into action.

“Success is inseparable from you, and future development is even more related to you,” said Mr. Ren.

Hope for the future:

The Huawei Founder said his company is still lagging behind in the software competition but also lauds the hope that it will become strong one day. “Because it is possible” He stressed.

This is quite true, the latest development and the launch of MetaERP show that the company is actively working on the latest breakthrough to resolve in-hand issues and problems.

He also urged the Chinese software companies to come forward and strengthen ties with each other. Also, cooperate to build new software industry and lead them to the future.

Survival instinct:

Ren Zhengfei is known for his survival instinct, after a wide US ban on Huawei products, the leader loaded his tech firm into survival mode. Saving the company’s resources and working on new business to open doors for revenue growth.

Under his leadership, Huawei began deep strategic partnerships with various Chinese and global players in order to survive out of the US restrictions. Initially, it felt impossible but slowly, it is cutting through the difficulties.

So, Huawei may be lagging behind in developing software but the company already has a strong software portfolio in China. It has delivered two big operating systems – HarmonyOS and EulerOS along with other software development tools for the community with open-source code. Therefore, Huawei’s progress is strong and steady.

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After the 2022 annual results, Huawei issued an announcement on the smart car business. It was signed by Huawei’s founder and chairman Ren Zhengfei. He strictly calls on all of Huawei officials to abide by the new announcement and move in the same direction.

Ren said “Huawei or HUAWEI” words cannot be used by any vehicle publicity or design. He forced Huawei Wenji or Huawei AITO to false under the same circumstances and these will also be denounced.

After that, AITO removed all of the Huawei logo and Huawei-related references for car promotion. Also, AITO’s marketing team is banned from adding Huawei before their car names.

Aside from Ren Zhengfei, the rotating chairman of Huawei, Xu Zhijun also responded to the fact that AITO Wenjie became “HUAWEI Wenjie”. Some individuals, companies, and partners are abusing the Huawei brand and Huawei will take appropriate actions against them, concluded Xu.

A few days ago, during an EV conference in China, Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei Consumer Business Group said that there are different opinions among top leaders but we all are thinking in the same direction.

Other than misuse, Yu Chengdong said If every car company forms an independent brand, it will be very difficult for us to market them.

Third-party:

A Weibo blogger revealed that Huawei has notified all of the stores to remove the promotional material on smartphones and other third-party stores under Huawei’s smart selection category.

These phone makers with Huawei design rights will strictly follow the new rules of not using Huawei in promotional or sales slogans.

Huawei Smart Selection is a smart home ecosystem brand launched by Huawei. It is an important part of Huawei’s all-scenario smart life strategy. Also, it’s similar to Mijia in the Xiaomi ecosystem, providing a platform, but the products are usually branded by other partners.

For example, Hi nova is a new smart devices brand created by China Post Communication Equipment. The overall specs of the Hi Nova 10 Pro are similar to Huawei Nova 10 Pro. Because it is a licensed device and all rights of the phone are reserved by China Post. Meanwhile, Huawei is marketing them with an online sales website, Vmall.

Right Decision?

Yes, removing branding from third-party devices and products is a good decision for Huawei. It will improve brand safety and won’t let any company misuse its integrity.

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Ren said that Huawei has completed the replacement and development of over 13000 components for its devices after U.S. restrictions. The company also did the same for 4000+ circuit boards over the last three years.

Ren said that Huawei continuously invested money in research of new technologies since 2019. According to information, Huawei spent around 23.8 billion USD in research and development (R&D) and he expects that the company will further increase this amount with growth in the future.

He revealed that Huawei has built its own management system software MetaERP with its own operating system, database, and compiler. Interstingly, MetaERP successfully passed the test of application in Huawei’s various divisions around the globe and the annual settlement test of Huawei’s ledger.

U.S. sanctions:

In 2019, the U.S. commerce department applied export restrictions on Huawei from purchasing new components. These are used to build network gear and smartphones. It later caused a big loss in business for Huawei in all divisions, especially in the consumer sector.

However, Huawei kept on building new devices with what it could gather and kept doing business with global partners in network technologies.

The firm is researching new carrier tech such as 5.5G, which is way ahead of other equipment makers. Also, Huawei is resurging in market share in the smartphone world with the launch of new phones.

However, a major issue that is causing problems for the tech maker still lies in the semiconductor industry. It needs a big breakthrough for both Huawei and the Chinese tech industry.

Despite challenges, Huawei organized a successful MWC 2023 and unveiled various new technologies that awed the people. Still, there’s a lot more to come from the company in the near future.

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Yu was talking about working at home and in his spare time. He said frankly that he wasn’t able to pay attention to housework, and other interests including movies and shows.

Why?

Yu revealed, Huawei staff is continuously fighting for the company and the Chinese tech firm needs that fighting spirit. On the other hand, Yu pointed out that Huawei Founder, Rhen Zhengfei and his elders do not pay attention to personal interests.

Yu emphasized that he is a person who refuses to admit defeat but he is definitely not a person who shows off. The Huawei founder always taught himself to be ordinary and Yu and his team are like brothers and sisters.

Huawei team cares for and values each other, which creates a nurturing environment for everyone.

The consumer business chief said that he doesn’t have a high level of state and we are educated that “the national interest is high than the collective interest and collective interests is higher than the individual interest”

These are important and precious words and make way for a better vision for the Huawei team and the entire company.

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