On December 24, the news of the European Union 2021 industrial research and development score list was officially announced, revealing the ranking of global enterprise R&D investment in 2020, and the domestic enterprise Huawei pressed Microsoft, Samsung, Apple and other enterprises, ranking second in the world, second only to Google's parent company, and also the top ten and only Chinese companies in the list.
According to EU statistics, Huawei invested a total of 17.46 billion euros (about 126 billion yuan) in research and development in 2020. This figure is slightly lower than Huawei's own 141.8 billion yuan of research and development expenditure, I don't know if it is because of the impact of exchange rate changes.
For Huawei, domestic netizens should be no strangers, in addition to Mate, P series flagship mobile phones and Huawei's self-developed Kirin CPU are well-known. Huawei's servers, communication base stations and other services seem far away from us, but they are closely related to our daily lives.
Huawei was once the leading big brother in the domestic mobile phone industry, and it is the only opponent of Apple in the field of flagship machines, the main reason is that the huge investment in research and development, want to achieve technology accumulation and upgrading, how can it be successful without throwing money. Of course, according to the ratio of revenue to R&D investment, Huawei is also a leader among domestic enterprises.
According to Huawei's financial report released at the end of March this year, the total revenue in 2020 was 891.4 billion yuan, which means that about 15% of the revenue was invested in technology research and development. Many domestic enterprises with annual revenue of 200 to 300 billion yuan invest less than 10 billion yuan in research and development every year, and the gap can be imagined.
Huawei's current dilemma must also be known to everyone, at the end of October, Huawei's official website announced this year's revenue, the total revenue in the first three quarters was only 455.8 billion yuan, down 32% year-on-year. However, in order to develop other businesses, Huawei not only can not reduce R & D investment, but may even add more R & D investment.
This year's Huawei's actions we have also seen, in addition to the P50 series of mobile phones, HarmonyOS official push, as well as the mining Hong operating system dedicated to mining, smart refueling solutions, iData intelligent data integration platform, etc., yesterday released a high-end hybrid SUV jointly built with Cyris - Q&I M5.
According to the Russian Satellite News Agency, Huawei is about to apply 5G technology to the Russian mining industry, and it is estimated that the mining system will also be exported to Russia to improve the safety and efficiency of the local mining industry.
Judging from the revenue of the first three quarters, Huawei's financial report this year is not very good, after all, many businesses have just been launched, and temporary profitability is limited. According to the speed of Huawei's business expansion and technology research and development, it is believed that soon Huawei can return to the level of revenue of 800 to 900 billion yuan a year.