In 2022, Huawei's RMB40 billion R&D and innovation base in Qingpu District, Shanghai, quickly promoted project construction despite the adverse impact of the epidemic and achieved gratifying construction results. Today, I will talk to you about Huawei's global R&D and innovation base project, which deliberately chose to be a neighbor next to SMIC, China's largest chip manufacturing company.
The Huawei Production and R&D Center project in Qingpu District, Shanghai, is located in Xicen Community, Jinze Town, Qingpu District, Shanghai, which is also a key construction project determined by Shanghai, and as the business card project of Xicen Science and Technology Innovation Center in the Yangtze River Delta Integration Demonstration Zone, it has a huge impact in the entire Qingpu District, and its construction process also affects the nerves of the public. The total construction area of Group B of the whole project is 340,000 square meters, mainly including 15 huge single buildings such as laboratory R&D rooms, data centers, equipment rooms and restaurants; Group C project, with a total construction area of 210,000 square meters, including 6 individual buildings and 1 janitor's room, the main function is to be used as a research and development office space in the future. Group G has a maximum construction area of 407,900 square meters, mainly consisting of 25 individual buildings with R&D rooms, data center laboratories and multi-functional halls. Up to now, the three major groups B, C, and G in Huawei's Shanghai Qingpu R&D and Production Center project have been successfully capped. As Huawei's largest R&D center in the world, you will build this project into a modern working area with cutting-edge scientific and technological elements, promote Shanghai's construction of a science and technology innovation center with global influence, and contribute to the high-quality development of the integrated region of the Yangtze River Delta.
We know that the United States has repeatedly intervened in recent years to suppress and sanction enterprises in the core areas of Chinese chips and high-end intelligent manufacturing, and Huawei has borne the brunt. Therefore, it also leads to the cooperation between Huawei and world-renowned chip foundries such as TSMC, there is great uncertainty, Huawei can only continue to find new alternative companies, SMIC is the best choice. It is in this context that Huawei specially selected SMIC's super R&D and innovation base with a total investment of more than 40 billion yuan (of which the equipment introduction cost accounts for half, about 20 billion yuan), which also indicates that the two companies will further expand cooperation in the future, help China's chip industry with a strong alliance, embark on a high-speed development path of independence and self-reliance, and solve the neck problem as soon as possible.
The construction of Huawei's Super Innovation R&D Base in Shanghai Qingpu was officially launched in June 2020. Among them, China Construction Third Engineering Bureau, a subsidiary of China State Construction, was responsible for the construction of some projects. According to the plan, Huawei's Qingpu R&D base will be arranged according to different functional areas, mainly including R&D center, talent apartments, and comprehensive community, and the R&D center here will mainly focus on 5G terminal chip and communication server and equipment testing in the future, and will also attract a large number of high-end scientific research talents to settle in. The R&D center is expected to cover an area of 2,400 mu, of which the first phase of the project construction land is 1,420 mu, which has started construction in June 2020. The other part of the area is the talent apartment of the R&D base with a total area of 660 acres, providing basic living and living needs for tens of thousands of R&D talents. A research and development base project is also supported by a comprehensive community to meet the living needs of more than 30,000 senior chip research talents to be introduced, mainly including some residential and basic public service facilities. This level will be built in the Dianshan Lake area of Shanghai. We know that Huawei's first super R&D base in the world is located in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, which is closely related to the highly developed electronics manufacturing industry in Dongguan, Guangdong, but the second base in Shanghai is more important to the rapid development of Shanghai's semiconductor industry and the fruitful results. In addition, as SMIC is a local enterprise in Shanghai, Huawei will build its base here, which will be closely linked to SMIC geographically and facilitate more strategic cooperation in the future.
Huawei will build the world's largest innovation and R&D base in Qingpu District, Shanghai, and mainly consider the following three factors: In terms of construction scale and functional positioning, Huawei's Shanghai Qingpu R&D base will exceed the scale of the Songshan Lake base, and its goals after completion will be directly aimed at Apple, Google and Amazon, but the standard of foreign giant headquarters parks. The external layout of Huawei's base, nine campuses, and three major islands is even more impressive. At the same time, relying on Qingpu District's own location advantages, it will become Huawei's new chip and communication equipment research and development center. At the same time, it also marks the gradual transition of Huawei's R&D focus from manufacturing in China to intelligent manufacturing in China, and will further promote the improvement and enrichment of the communications and semiconductor industry chain in the Yangtze River Delta. Finally, Guangdong Dongguan because of its talent and manufacturing strength supporting advantages, in Shanghai, there are one of the top semiconductor companies such as SMIC and Shanghai Microelectronics in the country, but also a highland where talents gather, with a strong industrial chain foundation, naturally it has become a popular choice for the construction of Huawei's R&D base, that to some extent, the construction of Huawei base will be the Yangtze River Delta region from upstream original materials, midstream chip manufacturing to downstream electronic products. The formation of a perfect industrial chain system and ecological gathering area construction has driven the transformation and upgrading of a large number of enterprises, and can also lead China's semiconductor industry to run from the mouth of the Yangtze River to the world.
Huawei's ultimate dream is to build a chip factory in Shanghai that does not use American technology, and in recent years Huawei has invested more than 130 billion yuan in chip production.
At the beginning of the new year, Xiaobian also got news that Huawei's data storage solution, Shanghai Innovation Base has been officially inaugurated, as a key industry around semiconductor, biomedicine, artificial intelligence, finance, efficient automobiles and related industry chain enterprises to jointly incubate scenario solutions, production as the goal to build an innovation incubation platform and enabling carrier for ecological partners, with technical support, customer experience and technical certification support three core capabilities, and this unveiling mainly unites 5 partners. It is mainly for digital pathology joint innovation laboratory, big data joint innovation laboratory, HP da unified scheduling platform and cloud native application joint innovation laboratory.
In addition, Huawei also announced last year that it will add ∨ lP Island and Group B floating town projects, and position it as a high-standard customer reception center for Huawei's R&D and innovation base in Qingpu, Shanghai, mainly for customer reception, conference, catering, guest rooms and other functional services. As Huawei's Qingpu R&D base, the eight major groups are divided into the first and second phases of the project, and all have started construction. In particular, nearly 10 months later, the first R&D office building of Project F Group has been fully topped out, and the entire project is expected to be delivered in January 2024. The above-mentioned Group F covers an area of 240,000 square meters, with a total construction area of 230,000 square meters, of which the water area is 15,000 square meters, and the main construction includes development buildings and data centers, supporting laboratories and employee life service facilities. The Shanghai Qingpu R&D base, covering an area of about 1.6 million square meters, will build more than 2 million square meters of buildings.
After the completion of the entire project, a large number of high-end scientific and technological talents will be introduced, which will further improve the Shanghai semiconductor industry chain, realize the innovation chain to a higher degree and a larger scope than the entire region, and improve the integration and improvement of the industrial chain and value chain, helping Huawei's high-quality strategy to a new level!