Huawei invested two billion dollars in the United Kingdom
The Chinese telecom company Huawei invests the equivalent of two billion U.S. dollars in the United Kingdom. The second-largest network equipment in the world wants to expand its activities and research and development in the long term, the company said at the World Economic Forum meeting with summer in the eastern Chinese city of Tianjin.
One billion U.S. dollars (650 million pounds) to be invested directly, while to be purchased in the next five years for another billion to the UK market. The number of employees in the UK will be expanded to 2017 from 800 now to 1500. Prime Minister David Cameron had met on the occasion of the billions invested in London with Huawei's founder Ren Zhengfei, the company reported.
"The UK is one of the main European markets, where Huawei invested," said Ren Zhengwei. He described the deal with the British government as a "transparent, efficient and practical." The UK market was open, hot welcome foreign investment and offer qualified employees, said the founder of China's largest private company in the South China Shenzhen is headquartered.
Huawei operates globally with 146,000 people in more than 150 countries. Sales increased in 2011 by 11.7 percent to 203 billion yuan, the equivalent of € 25 billion today - two thirds of them abroad. Huawei expands in smartphones and tablet computers this year will grow 15 to 20 percent. 45 of the 50 largest telecom networks in the world today work with equipment from Huawei.
The Chinese company had been at his expansion but already overcome some political concerns. But also because of security vulnerabilities in its products Huawei was recently brought into focus again. Headlines such as "The Long Arm of the Chinese secret service", with the Business Week wrote about a report on Huawei ensure not just that the Group will have received from Western countries trust the governments are afraid of secret backdoors that give them the Chinese in the critical infrastructure of the countries where Huawei is actively could foist. In Australia, Huawei was barred from building a national broadband network. Even in the U.S. remained efforts to allay the concerns of politicians, not borne fruit.
Ensure that the UK is so "open" shows how Huawei formulated, the Group has, however, already made a lot: In the land shall Huawei have worked with security agencies to address any concerns of the government against the use of Chinese hardware. A team of experts worked closely with the authorities responsible for communications infrastructure intelligence Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the business magazine The Economist has reported recently.
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