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"A cup of coffee absorbs cosmic energy."
This is a famous quote from Ren Zhengfei. Today, Huawei's open innovation has a new platform.
On April 30, Huawei's Voice of Hearts community released news that the Huang Danian Chasiwu Technology website was officially opened to the public. Huawei launched the online Huang Danian Tea House, hoping to build a channel for scientific and technological exchanges and open to the whole society.
Source: Huawei Voices Community
Last year, Ren Zhengfei, founder and president of Huawei, said that he invited domestic and foreign scientists to participate in Huawei's research work and create a cutting-edge ideological communication platform for "Huang Danian Tea Thinking House". Huawei also needs to broaden its thinking and explore more and broader ways to connect with the external brain.
Huawei creates "Huang Danian Tea House"
On April 30, Huawei's Voice of Hearts community released news that The Huang Danian Cha Si Wu technology website (Chaspark) was officially opened to the public.
According to Xinhua News Agency, in December 2009, Huang Danian resolutely gave up the excellent working and living conditions in the United Kingdom and returned to his alma mater, Jilin University, to teach. He led the team to promote China into the "deep earth era" and completed the 20-year road of developed countries in 5 years. In 2017, Huang Danian died of illness, but his spirit became an inexhaustible driving force for the "Huang Danian scientific research team" to move forward.
It is understood that Huang Danian Tea SiWu is a platform for Huawei's internal employees to communicate and discuss, and it is also a pipeline for collision with the ideas of external scientists.
In August 2021, Ren Zhengfei said in a speech with some scientists, experts, and interns at the Huawei Academia Sinica Innovation Pioneer Symposium: "There are many ways to use the external brain, such as what we are already doing: strengthening support for young and middle-aged professors and doctors in universities, cooperating in the establishment of postdoctoral workstations, inviting domestic and foreign scientists to participate in our research work, and creating a frontier thought communication platform for 'Huang Danian Tea Thinking House'... We also need to broaden our thinking and explore more and broader ways to connect with the external brain. ”
According to the Huawei Voice Community, in 2020, Ren Zhengfei said: "There are no rules for the two militaries to cooperate side by side, 'weapons' can have their own strengths, but the strengths must be disclosed to each other internally, you have to compete, you have to drink coffee together, you are not afraid of who is the 'black land', and you are not afraid of who is the 'Gobi Desert'." Now your office can be adjusted to the same building, the same floor, set up a 'Huang Danian Tea House', and drink the coffee first. ”
Netizens commented that whether it is drinking coffee or drinking tea or anything else, as long as there is an exchange of ideas and expanding horizons, it is equivalent to "absorbing energy". This open innovation atmosphere and culture will help Huawei get out of the predicament and go further.
Explore challenging topics
"The greatest force is the joint force, and the strongest wisdom is the wisdom of the crowd." On April 26, Zhou Hong, president of Huawei's Strategic Research Institute, said that Huawei launched the online Huang Danian Tea House, hoping to build a channel for scientific and technological exchanges and open to the whole society. At the Huang Danian Tea House, Huawei will summarize and refine the challenges and invite outstanding talents from around the world to explore innovation together.
The reporter noted that these topics include connectivity, artificial intelligence, intelligent terminals, cloud and computing, intelligent vehicles, intelligent manufacturing and other aspects.
Offline, Huawei opened Huang Danian's Tea Si House to colleges and universities. According to the news released by Sichuan University, on April 8, the signing ceremony of the joint laboratory of chemical materials jointly built by Sichuan University and Huawei was successfully held, and the Sichuan University Station of Huang Danian Tea Siwu was opened. Huang Danian Tea House is an open scientific and technological exchange platform, aiming to provide a high-quality communication space for experts, professors, teachers and students.
Zhou Hong said: "All our current imaginations for the future may be conservative, so we must be more courageous, hoping to work with academia and industry to reconstruct basic theories, reconstruct architecture, and reconstruct software, and jointly explore and create the future." ”
In the first quarter, R&D investment was 34.1 billion yuan
On the evening of April 29, The Shangqing Office released Huawei's quarterly report. In the first quarter, Huawei achieved revenue of 128.957 billion yuan, down 14.06% from 150.057 billion yuan in the same period of the previous year, and net profit was 5.576 billion yuan, down 66.96% from 16.877 billion yuan in the same period of the previous year.
Huawei's 5G phones are still out of stock. On April 29, market research firm Omdia released a report showing that in the first quarter, Huawei shipped 5.6 million mobile phones, ranking 10th in the world. Huawei, which can still only sell 4G smartphones, has encountered difficulties in expanding the Chinese mobile phone market. Huawei's market share fell sharply from 4.2 percent in the first quarter of last year to 1.8 percent in the same period this year.
Source: Omdia Official Micro
For the first quarter of operating results, Hu Houkun, rotating chairman of Huawei, said that the overall operating results were in line with expectations, the consumer business was greatly affected, and the ICT (information and communication technology) infrastructure business achieved steady growth. In addition, the company has increased its investment in research and development to maintain the ability to continuously innovate and create value for customers.
According to the financial report, in the first quarter, Huawei's research and development expenses were 34.1 billion yuan, an increase of 3.380 billion yuan year-on-year.
Source: Huawei Quarterly Report
On March 28, Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's chief financial officer, said: "Huawei has always believed that R&D investment based on revenue is a basic guarantee for Huawei to truly continue to provide value to customers. Regardless of our profits, we always insist on this. We do not manage profits from the perspective of shareholders, but from the perspective of our customers to focus on our future sustainability and innovation. ”
At present, Huawei still has sufficient funds on hand. As of the end of the first quarter, Huawei held 188.885 billion yuan of monetary funds.
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