Huawei: Helping build a better connected Saudi Arabia
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Huawei and Saudi Arabia Airlines sign an agreement on jointly developing an aerial green IT industrial park. [File photo] |
A reliable corporate citizen
As its business grows, Huawei is more aware of its responsibility as a corporate citizen. It established a training center in Riyadh that has trained over 8,000 local telecommunication professionals in last three years. It aims to cultivate 5,000 more hi-tech talents for Saudi in the next three years, and promote knowledge transmission in different forms.
Huawei Saudi Arabia is headquartered in Riyadh and has two other offices in Jeddah and Dammam. The company has 1,200 employees, 62 percent of whom are not Chinese. It has created overall 5,000 positions in Saudi.
In addition, as of the end of 2014, Huawei Saudi Arabia's local procurement reached US $300 million and is estimated to surpass US $1 billion in a decade.
For a better-connected Saudi Arabia
Huawei has conducted all-round cooperation in both mobile and fixed network fields with Saudi partners. The oil company Saudi Aramco contracted with Huawei to run an eight-year fixed network project in 2005, and a teleconferencing system in 2013. Rotating CEO of Huawei Hu Houkun visited Saudi Aramco in 2003 and held a discussion with Aramco's Vice President Khalid G. al-Buainain. Saudi Telecom Company awarded Huawei the "Distinguished Achievement" Award in 2006, and signed the strategic partnership agreement with Huawei in 2009 and the strategic cooperation agreement in 2014, marking a long-term full cooperation.
The annual Hajj, or Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, is a serious test of the nation's telecommunication services. The Sacred Mosque, covering an area of 180,000 sq meters, accommodates three million pilgrims at the busiest time, which equates to about 860 million minutes of talk time throughout the world. To guarantee smooth telecommunication during the Hajj, Huawei has mobilized and transferred experts from all over the world to Saudi in the last 10 years.
"The future world will be all-connected, which will substantially influence each person, each organization, and each industry,"CEO Hu said, "Humankind, whether in the past, present or future, strives to break through the limitations of time and space and keep connected." Hu said Huawei would, together with Saudi partners, shoulder its responsibilities and grasp opportunities to promote innovation and transformation of the industry, and build a better-connected Saudi.
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