For Huawei, 2021 is undoubtedly a very difficult year, under the premise of chip restrictions, Huawei's consumer electronics business has undoubtedly been greatly affected, from the former world's first to 5 outside, followed by a sharp decline in sales revenue.
In the 2022 New Year's speech released by Huawei on December 31, Guo Ping, Huawei's rotating chairman, announced Huawei's operating conditions in 2021: the annual sales revenue was about 634 billion yuan, down 28.9% compared with 2020. However, in the face of the dilemma, Huawei was not discouraged, but chose to attack in new fields including smart wearables, new energy, and smart cars, and made major breakthroughs.
What is even more exciting is that the communication business with Hua as the core has maintained its position as the world's first in the face of many challenges and difficulties. According to the statistics of Dell'Oro Group, a world-renowned research company in the field of communications, although Huawei's market share has declined in 2021, it is still far ahead of strong competitors such as Ericsson, Nokia, Cisco, and Samsung with a market share of 28%.
This is undoubtedly a major positive information for Huawei, to know that communication technology is the foundation of all consumer electronics business, the reason why Huawei can quickly rise in the field of consumer electronics, intelligent vehicles and other fields, its mastery of more than 100,000 patents is undoubtedly the biggest guarantee.
At present, Huawei's 5G patents still rank first in the world with a proportion of 15.4%, which undoubtedly reflects Huawei's strong technology and research and development strength. For technology companies, the number of patents is undoubtedly the best embodiment of technological strength, and it also reflects Huawei's determination to give up research and development in the face of adversity and strive to seek breakthroughs. Today's patent accumulation and R&D investment will eventually become the biggest guarantee for Huawei's re-emergence in other days.
Today, Europe also announced the 2021 Global Technology R&D Standings, and Huawei became the second largest technology company in the world in terms of R&D investment with 17.46 billion euros, second only to Google's parent company ALPHABET, which invested 22.47 billion euros. In such a difficult situation, still maintain R & D investment does not give up, Huawei's spirit is really admirable.
However, while Huawei still maintains such a huge investment in scientific research, other domestic companies that are still in a good situation cannot keep up with Huawei's research and development pace, which has to be said to be a huge regret. It is not enough to rely on Huawei alone for the rise of science and technology, huawei's current predicament is not only its own problem, but also the inability of other domestic technology companies to lend a helping hand is also an important reason.
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Huawei has used its own efforts and persistence to hand over an exciting answer sheet for its own 2021. However, while lamenting Huawei's efforts to become stronger, we must also face up to the reality that it is still lagging behind in the field of science and technology. Huawei's success has set an example for many enterprises, and more importantly, driven by Huawei's example, more companies can invest in the team of scientific and technological research and development and contribute to the rejuvenation of science and technology.
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