Openness, Collaboration, and Shared Success

Digital and intelligent transformation is picking up speed worldwide, creating new opportunities and markets. The world will enter an age of All Intelligence within the next 20 years. This will be a future defined by information perception, communications, computing, and control, changing the way we live and work, redefining our relationship with the natural environment, and opening the doors to a new digital world. Artificial general intelligence (AGI) will play a key role in creating this future.

We stand ready to work more closely with our partners on open and joint innovation. We hope to pave the way for an eventual AGI that is accurate, adaptable, creative, and efficient. And to achieve this, we will work together to develop multiple forms of intelligence, build an open intelligent system based on autonomous agents, develop new computing modes, architectures, and components, and take a systems engineering approach to AI development.

Huawei will continue to openly collaborate with industry organizations and ecosystem partners across domains, including the public and private sectors, academia, research institutes, and users. We will keep contributing to standards and sharing both industry insights and technical challenges to drive the industry and technology forward. We will also step up efforts to create greater synergy between software, hardware, chips, networks, cloud, edge, and devices. This, combined with integrated innovation, will help make our products and solutions more competitive. As always, we will continue to work with partners to cultivate dynamic industry ecosystems and create an open and collaborative environment that thrives on shared success.

Key Progress and Industry Contributions

Huawei actively works with global industry organizations, and we hold more than 450 key positions in nearly 800 of these groups, including academic associations, standards organizations, industry alliances, and open source communities around the world. We promote deeper partnerships and mutual recognition of standards between industry organizations, and work hard to address industry challenges, breakpoints, and bottlenecks.

• Standardization: We firmly support the unification of global standards and promote efforts to open up, co-develop, and share global standards, helping outline a new vision for the industry. In 2024, we submitted nearly 10,000 contributions to standards organizations worldwide, and actively promoted global consensus on connectivity through organizations like 3GPP, ETSI, and ITU. We are helping our partners ensure a smooth evolution towards 5.5G, F5.5G, and Net5.5G.
• Industry development: We actively participate in global industry organizations and regularly contribute to seven major fields, including connectivity, computing, devices, and media, to promote sustainable industry development. In 2024:
• We strengthened global industry cooperation and actively contributed industry white papers, testbeds, and standards to nearly 20 international organizations.
• We released the Amplifying Industrial Digitalization & Intelligence Practice White Paper and worked with our partners to launch 10 new intelligent solutions for industries like smart cities, finance, transportation, manufacturing, electric power, mining, and oil and gas. All these efforts are aimed at helping industries go digital and intelligent.
• We worked closely with international organizations such as the UN Climate Change Global Innovation Hub, Urban Transitions Mission & Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, and the Global enabling Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) on researching and applying ICT and digital power technologies. These efforts aim to accelerate green and digital transformation across industries like energy, manufacturing, transportation, logistics, and iron and steel, and support the transition to zero-carbon cities.
• Ecosystem development: We continue to push the limits of technology, open up capabilities, cultivate talent, and promote open and thriving ecosystems. We also join forces with universities, developers, and partners to foster ecosystem growth. By the end of 2024, 41,300 innovative applications have been developed through the Kunpeng, Ascend, and Huawei Cloud ecosystems to accelerate industry digitalization and intelligence. More than 20,000 HarmonyOS apps and atomic services have been released, covering nearly all aspects of everyday life.

Group photos – 15th GIO Roundtable, March 2025 in Barcelona and Beijing

In 2024, the Global Industry Organizations (GIO) Roundtable primarily focused on AI and data elements. Together, members released the GIO White Paper on Industry-Specific Ecosystems V3.0 and the AI-enabled Industrial Innovations White Paper. Themed "New Opportunities and Challenges of the Data Industry in the Intelligent Era", the roundtable pictured above explored some of the difficulties industries had faced with data, progress they had made, and ways to maximize the value of data across regions and industries.

Standards Organizations

We actively contribute to standards organizations and work with customers and industry partners to support technological upgrade in fields such as connectivity, media, devices, and computing. We are also working to help all industries go intelligent, green, and digital, and to support the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

We are promoting efforts to open up, co-develop, and share global standards, helping outline a new vision for the industry.

• Within 3GPP, we are actively contributing to the evolution of 5G-Advanced standards through technological innovation, helping lay the foundation for the age of mobile AI.
• Through the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), we supported the release of the first F5G-Advanced standard, helping the optical communications industry evolve towards 10 Gbps all-optical networks and premium transmission networks.
• Through the ITU, we are working with partners in the ITU Radiocommunication Sector to explore how we can make better use of global spectrum for international mobile telecommunications (IMT) and drive spectral efficiency improvement worldwide. As part of our broader efforts to help upgrade optical industry standards, we are actively contributing to IOT-2030 next-generation optical systems in the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector and working with the industry to better outline the vision for next-generation technologies in the optical industry.
• Within ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee (JTC) 1, we are actively contributing to standardization in audio and video, AI, cloud computing, and other industries, and working together to continuously improve the global AI governance framework that balances security supervision and innovation based on international standards and open consensus.
• Through the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), we promoted the release of the Wi-Fi 7 standard and are actively contributing to the Wi-Fi Alliance (WFA) to promote industry application. In addition, we are contributing to the Wi-Fi 8 standard through innovation, enabling next-generation low-latency and high-bandwidth connectivity.
• Through the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), we are actively contributing new Internet connectivity technologies and working with the industry to explore four new connectivity scenarios: computing, intelligence, space-air-ground communications, and data. These are part of our broader efforts to help drive the upgrade of the data communications industry.
• Within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), we are working with partners to explore emerging technology directions for future services that meet Web standards, supporting efforts to develop highperformance and simplified Web subset standards, and helping improve the Web application development ecosystem.

Industry Alliances

Huawei is a committed partner in major industry alliances around the world. Together, we are working to promote sustainable industry development and help vertical industries go digital.

• Strengthening international industry collaboration to advance digital transformation: Huawei is an active partner in international industry organizations such as GSMA, WBBA, GeSI, AI Assurance Club, IDSA, OPC Foundation, and ZVEI. We actively contribute industry white papers, testbeds, and standards recommendations to support the development and application of new digital technologies in sectors such as communications, electronics, manufacturing, electric power, iron and steel, coal mining, oil and gas, and ports. Together, we are driving digital transformation forward.
• Promoting industry competitiveness and sustainable development: We are a major contributor to industry organizations such as GCC, UWA, WAA, iSLA, GIIC, and NIDA, and actively participate in industry activities organized by these organizations. We are working closely with partners all along the value chain to promote industry-wide consensus, standards development, testing and certification, and talent cultivation. These efforts help promote sustainable development in industries such as diversified computing, audio and video, short-range communications, smart Internet of Things (IoT), and fixed networks.

Academic Associations

Huawei embraces an open and diverse academic culture. We actively engage with global academic associations as part of our efforts to identify and explore future research directions and cultivate STEM talent. Together, we are invigorating academic pursuits while driving economic progress.

• Probing the endless frontiers of science through sharing, exchange, and industryacademia collaboration:
• In 2024, we shared our perspectives on the future of wireless, optical, and foundational software at international academic conferences, and we are working with researchers worldwide to draft a technological blueprint for the intelligent world.
• We strengthened collaboration with organizations like the China Computer Federation, releasing more than 80 new research topics to help drive progress in computer science.
• We continue to support academic research in AI, producing positive results and driving AI technology forward.
• Contributing new ideas to academic associations: We have published more than 1,200 papers in high-impact journals and conferences, such as those organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and IEEE.
• Cultivating STEM talent through top competitions: To inspire and engage the next generation of STEM talent, we contribute realworld industry challenges to multiple competitions like the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC).

Open Source Communities

Huawei is a firm supporter and major contributor to open source communities, where we advocate inclusion, fairness, openness, solidarity, and sustainability. Through our work with partners to build world-class open source communities, we aim to accelerate software innovation and create thriving ecosystems.

• Huawei actively participates in major open source organizations and projects. We are a premium or founding member of more than 20 international open source foundations, including the Linux Foundation, Apache Software Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, OpenAtom Foundation, OpenInfra Foundation, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), PyTorch Foundation, and Rust Foundation. We serve in hundreds of core code contributor roles, including Technical Steering Committee members, Project Management Committee members, Project Team Leads, Maintainers, and Core Committers, contributing to more than 200 open source communities. Huawei has actively engaged in the definition of open source AI and the governance of open source licenses for AI in the industry, and we are working with industry partners to jointly launch a model openness evaluation framework in an effort to further advance the open source AI ecosystem.
• With a focus on foundational software, Huawei has launched over 10 influential open source projects to build a ber foundation for digital infrastructure ecosystems. We have launched multiple platform-level open source projects, such as KubeEdge, MindSpore, Volcano, openEuler, openGauss, OpenHarmony, Karmada, openGemini, and Kuasar. These foundational software projects have attracted an incredible number of contributors, including software vendors, developers, research institutes, and universities from all over the world. In 2024, KubeEdge was moved to the Graduated maturity level, and Sermant and openGemini were moved to the Incubating maturity level by CNCF. In 2024, MindSpore secured a 30% share of the new AI framework market in China, bringing its total downloads to more than 11 million.
• We are actively engaged in the governance and development of foundational software ecosystems with industry partners. In 2024, we continued to actively contribute to two of the OpenAtom Foundation's core projects – OpenHarmony and openEuler. By the end of 2024, the OpenHarmony community has attracted more than 8,100 individual contributors, over 70 organization contributors, and more than 390 ecosystem partners, which have submitted more than 120 million lines of code. The openEuler community has rallied more than 1,900 organization members (e.g., top enterprises, research institutes, and universities), and over 21,000 individual open source contributors. The openEuler community itself has seen over 3.8 million downloads worldwide. In 2024 alone, openEuler added 5 million installations, bringing its total installations to more than 10 million.
• We are helping build sustainable and trusted open source communities. Huawei actively works with partners from the software security industry to improve the security of open source ecosystems and address increasingly complex security challenges. We are deeply engaged in the development and promotion of major global software supply chain security standards and specifications, such as OpenChain and OpenSSF. We continue to fulfill our corporate social responsibilities to help build globally trusted open source ecosystems.

Ecosystems

We advocate openness and collaboration, and are working to help others succeed. We continue to push the limits of technology, open up capabilities, cultivate talent, and promote open and thriving ecosystems. As part of our ecosystem development efforts, we are working with universities, developers, and partners to build ecosystems around Kunpeng, Ascend, HarmonyOS, Huawei Cloud, and other businesses.

We continue to expand industry-education integration and research-education integration, enable scientific research and innovation at universities, and help universities cultivate outstanding talent.

• Together with education institutions, we have launched the Intelligent Base, an industryacademia collaboration program. We are working with top universities in China to build centers of excellence and hubs that focus on innovation in science and education. We also released the Huawei Developer Advocate Program.
• We are integrating technologies such as Kunpeng, Ascend, HarmonyOS, and Huawei Cloud into classroom teaching and experiments. Our support for universities also includes collaboration on cutting-edge technologies, funding for innovation topics, and hosting professional competitions. These initiatives have had an impact on more than 6,000 teachers and benefited over 600,000 students, helping build a sustainable talent pool for ecosystem and industry development.

We put developers front and center. We are working to improve the development experience and help developers grow.

• We have developed easy-to-use development standards, optimized toolchains, acceleration libraries, and development kits, and opened up more than 130,000 APIs.
• We have also expanded our developer support team and improved mechanisms for responding to developer requirements, providing faster resolutions to issues.
• We provide developers with a free Elastic Cloud Server (ESC) to help them work more efficiently. We continue to enable developers through a rich array of learning resources, activities, and competitions. In 2024, we developed more than 2,500 courses that attracted 1.16 million participants, carried out over 300 on-site activities and over 1,200 online activities, and held 12 flagship competitions.
• By the end of 2024, more than 12 million developers have joined Huawei's ecosystems.

We are working to build a robust ecosystem partner enablement system to drive shared growth. We support innovation in applications and are empowering partners to better serve customers together.

• We continue to increase incentives for ecosystem partners through programs such as the Shining Star Program, Huawei Cloud Developer Program, Kunpeng Partner Program, and Ascend Partner Program. We have assigned several thousand experts to support partners in application development. We also provide multiple forms of support for ecosystem partners, including promotion, marketing, business opportunities, and business support, helping them to both engage with the ecosystem and benefit from it.
• By the end of 2024, the ecosystems for domains like Kunpeng, Ascend, and Huawei Cloud have attracted more than 48,700 partners, developed over 41,300 innovative applications, and incubated 38 foundation models and over 160 high-performance operators. These achievements have helped accelerate the digital and intelligent transformation of industries and are providing more options for customers.
• More than 20,000 HarmonyOS apps and atomic services have been released, covering 18 vertical domains and nearly all aspects of everyday life.

Industrial Policy

We are working to unleash the full business and social value of the ICT industry and promote digital inclusion.

• We share best practices in digital economy development to promote digital inclusion. Huawei and IDC jointly proposed the concept of a "Digital First Economy", encouraging policymakers to introduce more favorable policies that support the development of digital infrastructure, digital economy ecosystems, and digital talent. We have also shared best practices from different countries and regions in advancing their digital economies. These are part of our broader efforts to create greater social and business value, and to promote sustainable development through digital inclusion. At the World Economic Forum, ITU, and other international organizations and open forums, we regularly share our experience and best practices in promoting digital transformation, digital inclusion, and more.
• We actively participate in public consultations on industrial policy, standards, and specifications in all countries where we operate. These efforts include sharing recommendations on cloud-based and intelligent digital infrastructure, digital talent development programs, and new business model incubation. In every country, our goal is to promote inclusive and sustainable digital transformation.