Huawei is in Brazil for Brazil

Thousands of journalists, scholars and officials, including some from Brazil, visited the headquarters of Huawei in Shenzhen last year. They saw our beautiful campuses and visited our advanced laboratories, state-of-the-art assembly line and shareholding registry room. They know who Huawei is.

The chief technology officers of Brazilian telecom carriers know better: Huawei is a global ICT technology leader and an enabler of digital transformation. As a trusted partner and an innovative value creator, we have a track record of 22 years in Brazil. We are committed to being in Brazil for Brazil.

Who is Huawei

Huawei was founded in 1987 in Shenzhen, an iconic southern Chinese city of market reforms and a tech hub. Mr. Ren Zhengfei and five others jointly set up the firm with a registered capital of 21,000 yuan (over 4,000 US dollars). The other five investors later backed out of the joint venture and Huawei implemented a program to offer virtual shares to its employees.

Huawei is a private company 100 percent owned by its employees – more than half of our 194,000 employees are also our shareholders. This allows us to keep investing for the long term to deliver our mission – bring digital to every person, household and organization to build a fully connected, intelligent world. And focused on this mission Huawei has become the global ICT leader.

We became an ICT technology leader by investing more than 10 percent of our revenue each year in research and development. We spent 17 billion dollars in R&D in 2019 alone, which makes us one of the world’s top five R&D investors.

With such investments, we are now the undisputed ICT technology leader with over 85,000 active patents, including over 40,000 awarded in US and Europe.

We serve over 3 billion people in 170 countries and regions around the world. We provide carriers with network equipment, companies with connectivity solutions and consumers with smart devices. Our revenue grew by 19 percent year on year to 123 billion US dollars in 2019, with a net profit of 9 billion dollars.

We create value by working together with our partners and clients to offer innovative products and solutions that are not only technologically competitive but also lighter and more energy efficient. We deliver performance.

We communicate openly and transparently, publishing audited annual results even though we are not a listed company. We are one of the world’s few top companies that opened even the laboratories to journalists and customers.

In Brazil for Brazil

Huawei started operating in Brazil 22 years ago, coinciding with the reforms to privatize the telecommunications sector in the country. We have been working in partnership with our clients and customers even since to deliver value.

We helped bring digital life to Brazil. Together with our customers and partners, we contributed to the development of the mobile and broadband networks that cover 95% of the Brazilian population. We helped our operator partners launch the first 3G, 4G and 4.5G networks in the country, and helped build the first high-speed fiber optic network in the Amazon rainforest that connects 20 cities and benefits nearly 4 million people. Huawei is part of the digital life.

With the ICT becoming an accelerator, Huawei, the industry leader, has been enabling the ongoing digital transformation of various other industries. We have been working with more than 10 industries and 500 partners in Brazil, deploying innovative ICT solutions and public cloud service in finance, energy, ISP, agriculture, transportation, mining as well as the public sector.

We work together with the people in Brazil, driving innovation and helping groom local ICT talents. We have local production and joint R&D centers with institutions like CPQD and Inatel, bringing the latest technologies and solutions to Brazil. We have trained more than 30,000 ICT talents at our training centers and Huawei ICT Academies over the past ten years, in cooperation with Brazilian universities and faculties. With the “Seeds for the Future” and the “ICT competition”, we open the door to the ICT world for more young people.

Huawei has a localized operation, generating 1,200 direct jobs and over 15,000 indirect ones. We were recognized with a TOP Employer award in 2019.

Brazil has had open and fair market competition in the ICT sector, benefiting all in the ongoing digital transformation and efforts to move towards Industry 4.0, Agriculture 4.0, Health 4.0 and Smart City 4.0 in this country. Huawei looks forward to contributing to the Brazilian economy and society in this process.

The best way to predict the future is to create it. Let us work together.

We are in Brazil for Brazil, as always.