Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen Met With Huawei Southeast Asia Region President David Sun
Cambodia and Huawei enhance nation ICT development
[Phnom Penh, Cambodia, December 12, 2016] Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen met with Huawei Southeast Asia Region President David Sun in Peace Palace Phnom Penh. The two parties exchanged views about further cooperation for information communication technology (ICT) development in Cambodia.
David Sun introduced to the Prime Minister about the progress of public welfare projects between Huawei and Ministry of Rural Department. The water wells which are used to improve difficulty with water, has entered the site selection phase with Ministry of Rural Development of Cambodia. The 50 water wells will be distributed in 5 provinces lack of water, which will start the construction in January and finish in April in the coming next year. The first group 11 Cambodian students from Project “Seeds For The Future” have arrived China and started the training at Huawei. The second and third groups will be selected by Youth Federation of Cambodia and Huawei. They will come to China for training in 2017 and 2018.
November 9th , all the social welfare above were donated by Huawei to Cambodia while the meeting between Huawei Senior Vice President Mr. Li Jin’Ge and Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen. As a enterprise citizen, Huawei is devoting itself to the long-term and stable business in Cambodia, and willing to do the project as above mentioned to let more Cambodian people benefit.
David Sun expressed:” it’s such a great honor that Huawei able to witness the development of ICT industry in Cambodia. The attention of Cambodia to the ICT industry and related infrastructure investment will lead socioeconomic to achieve leaping development. The vision of Huawei is to build a better connected world . We will continue to invest in Cambodia and contribute to economic development of Cambodia, ICT talent training and social welfare activities.
Prime Minister Hun Sen affirmed what Huawei has contributed to the development of Cambodia
ICT industry and highly appreciated the rapid progress of the social welfare activities such as water wells and “Seeds For The Future”, Especially “Seeds For The Future” is helping Cambodia to training more local ICT talents and improve the technical ability of Cambodia Youth . Prime Minister Hun Sen remarked, “Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, I’m looking forward to that Huawei could participate in Cambodia’s national broadband construction with the latest communication technologies to eliminate the digital divide and make Cambodian youth’s dreams come true.
Huawei started the business in Cambodia since 1999 and having a extensive cooperation with local telecom operators , government as well as the customer in ICT industry. Until now, Huawei’ communication network service has covered the consumer in Cambodia approximately 70% and Huawei mobile phones has ranked third for the share of Cambodia market. Over the years, Huawei help Cambodia cultivated more than 1000 ICT talents. Currently, Huawei has 80% employees whom are local staffs.
H.E Tram Iv Tek Minister of Cambodia Post and Telecommunication, H.E. Sok Chenda Sophea Secretary General of the council for the Development of Cambodia, Mr. Lyu Qing Chen , CEO of Huawei Technologies(Cambodia) Co., Ltd attended the meeting.
