Huawei’s Ken Hu says company has little to do with Beijing’s ambitious 2025 blueprint
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Huawei is deeply invested in the research and development of 5G, artificial intelligence and semiconductor technologies, which are among the major areas covered by the ‘Made in China 2025’ strategy
Huawei is deeply invested in the research and development of 5G, artificial intelligence and semiconductor technologies, which are among the major areas covered by the ‘Made in China 2025’ strategy
A senior executive at Huawei Technologies, the world’s largest telecommunications equipment supplier, said the company has little to do with Beijing’s top agenda to boost industrial modernisation.
“We used to have some discussions [about it] over the past few years, but what we are doing now does not have much to do with the 2025 agenda,” Ken Hu Houkun, Huawei’s rotating chairman, told the Nikkei Asian Review in an interview in Japan published on Tuesday, when asked about the company’s role in that master plan.
He said Huawei “did not do much research on the Made in China 2025 policy”.
Developments in 5G, artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductors have become embroiled in a wider row over “Made in China 2025” (MIC2025), the programme that has become a lightning rod in the escalating trade war between the US and China. Sensing a threat to its global technological dominance, the US has seized on the plan as an example of what it sees as unfair state intervention in China’s economy.
Shenzhen-based Huawei, which is also the world’s second biggest smartphone supplier, is deeply invested in the research and development of 5G, AI and semiconductor technologies, which are among the major areas covered by the MIC2025 strategy.