Founded in 1987, Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications

Long-term, focused investment to 
take innovation to the next level
Every year, Huawei invests over 10% of its sales 
revenue back into R&D. We continue to increase 
our investment in basic research and theoretical 
breakthroughs, and have invested heavily in 
innovation and invention for decades to help drive the 
industry forward.
Looking to the future, Huawei will maintain its focus 
on research, aiming to remove bottlenecks in basic 
science and drive breakthroughs in cutting-edge 
technology. Guided by our vision of a fully connected, 
intelligent world, we will devote our efforts to 
identifying different industry needs and overcoming 
shared challenges on a global scale.
We’re entering a second phase of innovation 
(“Innovation 2.0”), where we are performing basic 
research in domains like mathematics, physics, and 
chemistry to make theoretical breakthroughs – in 
effect, going “from zero to one”. Throughout this 
process, we will continue to advocate for broader 
collaboration between the industry and academia to 
help light up the future through innovation.
People are the heart and soul of innovation. As 
always, we will continue to optimize our talent 
management systems to attract top minds from 
around the world and help them unleash their 
full potential. In order to support our corporate 
strategy and address the varied demands of 
digital transformation, we will double down 
on supplementing and improving our software 
capabilities, strengthening our software teams, 
nurturing our own software architects, and bringing 
in external architects.
We will also build an open platform to support 
strategic collaboration between the industry and 
academia from the top down. We can do more if 
we work together, and we will push forward with 
our transition to a model that is led by innovation, 
focused on basic research, and centered on people.