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Timeline
• Dec 1, 2018: Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wan zhou is arrested in Canada at the request of the United States.
• Jan 29, 2019: The US govern ment hits Huawei with 23 indictments for alleged trade secrets theft and fraud.
• March 8, 2019: Huawei sues the US government over a ban on the use of its equipment in US federal agencies.
• May 15, 2019: Washington puts Huawei on its Entity List, forbidding the company from accessing crucial US technolo gies without special govern ment approval.
• May 20, 2019: The US issues a 90day temporary license, loosening restrictions on busi ness deals with Huawei. Howev er, the license only allows the company to buy US compo A doctor in Changxing, Zhejiang province, uses 5Gsupported telemedicine technology to administer ultrasound to a patient in a rural clinic nents to maintain its existing several kilometers away. TAN YUNFENG / FOR CHINA DAILY networks and smartphone ser vices.
• May 21, 2019: Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei says the curbs imposed by Washington will significantly harm US jobs Networks: Challenges overcome and companies, and that the US has underestimated the com pany’s “ability to persevere”. From page 1 com industry with other sectors — the fundamental difference • June 6, 2019: Licenses grant The country boasts the world’s larg between 4G and 5G. ed to Chinese telecom carriers est 5G deployment, with more than The 5G network “The whole world is fascinated with for commercial use of 5G. 130,000 base stations constructed. 5G. It is high time to turn this over Its telecom carriers provide 5G has solved whelming enthusiasm toward the new • June 21, 2019: The US places services in more than 50 cities, problems like technology into concrete efforts to pro five more Chinese tech compa securing a total of 3 million sub video lag and mote its wider use,” Wang Jianzhou nies, including highperform scribers in just two months after the added. ance computer maker Sugon, technology was officially commer remote control A wide variety of industries — on its Entity List. cialized, according to the Ministry of delay mining, transportation, education, Industry and Information Technolo healthcare, manufacturing, agricul • Aug 9, 2019: Huawei unveils gy. experienced ture and others — are scrambling to its inhouse operating system Wang Zhiqin, deputy head of the under the 4G team up with Chinese tech compa Harmony OS, a key move China Academy of Information and nies for innovative 5G applications. expected to mitigate the influ Communications Technology, a gov network, ensuring Significant progress has been ence of Washington’s ban on ernment think tank, said, “China has a nearrealtime made. For example, in March, the the company’s access to Goo maintained its 5G deployment world’s first 5Gbased remote surgery gle’s Android operating system momentum in the face of challenges.” operation.” on a human brain was conducted on a in smartphones. She said the technology can ena Ling Zhipei, chief physi patient with Parkinson’s disease. ble countless devices and equip cian at the First Medical With technological support from Above: A police • Aug 19, 2019: The US issues ment to connect to the internet and Center of the Chinese PLA Huawei and China Mobile Ltd, a robot patrols East another 90day temporary “talk” to each other, which will make General Hospital doctor in Sanya, Hainan province, Nanjing Road in license, loosening restrictions the longpredicted era of the inter remotely operated surgical instru Shanghai. on business deals with Huawei. net of things a reality. ments to implant a deep brain stim WANG GANG / “This year, we will see largescale ulator, known as a “brain FOR CHINA DAILY • Oct 7, 2019: The US places construction of 5G networks, a 24.8 pacemaker”, into the patient in Bei Left: Visitors try eight more Chinese tech com kaleidoscope of industrial applica jing, about 2,500 kilometers away. a selfdriving panies, including artificial intel tions emerging and 5G smart trillion yuan Ling Zhipei, chief physician at the bus at a high ligence pioneer iFlytek, on its estimated indirect phones rapidly becoming popular in First Medical Center of the Chinese tech zone in Entity List. economic output of China,” Wang added PLA General Hospital, conducted the Zhengzhou, commercialization of 5G • Oct 31, 2019: China launches Huawei estimates that some in China from this year to threehour surgery. “The 5G network Henan province. 400,000 new 5G base stations will 2025, with direct econom has solved problems like video lag and ZHANG TAO / commercialization of 5G servi be built in China by the end of the ic output reaching 10.6 remote control delay experienced FOR CHINADAILY ces, with the nation’s telecom year, with services available in more trillion yuan, according under the 4G network, ensuring a carriers rolling out plans for than 300 cities. to the China Academy nearrealtime operation,” Ling said. data packages. In its latest report, US investment of Information and Hospitals in China have since new role in spurring China’s bur of 5G in China is expected to generate bank Goldman Sachs painted an Communications Tech conducted a string of 5Genabled geoning digital economy to a new direct economic output of 10.6 tril • Nov 19, 2019: The US even more optimistic picture, fore nology remote surgeries, as they strive to development stage. lion yuan ($1.5 trillion) from this year extends the 90day temporary casting that the country would build tap the latest technologies to solve “4G has triggered a boom in Chi to 2025, and indirect economic out license for the third time, loos about 1 million new 5G base stations problems such as insufficient medi na’s consumer internet applications. put of about 24.8 trillion yuan. ening restrictions on business this year, up from its original predic cal resources in poor regions. But the nation has no star companies But whatever gigantic numbers deals with Huawei. tion of 600,000. Derek O’Halloran, head of Shaping that excel in using digital technolo are used to showcase the benefits of Wang Jianzhou, senior consultant the Future of Digital Economy and gies to serve businesses. That is in 5G, the technology first needs to • Dec 5, 2019: Huawei sues the with the Global System for Mobile New Value Creation at World Eco sharp contrast to the US, where con bring benefits to frontline workers US Federal Communications Communications Association, said: nomic Forum, said China is one of the sumer internet companies and enter such as Liu, from the gold mine in Commission, seeking a court “Despite the different estimates, most active 5G markets in the world. prise internet companies are thriving Shandong. ruling to overturn the latter’s there is a consensus that the rapid It is at the forefront of applying the in tandem,” Chen said. He said that many people are order banning local rural tele deployment of 5G in China will offer technology in manufacturing, health The landscape in China will be visiting the mine to see how 5G is com carriers from using federal a sound digital infrastructure for care, media and other sectors. reshaped by 5G, which will trigger being used to upgrade the tradition funding to purchase the com more efforts to generate concrete Chen Hong, chairman of Hina the use of digital technologies in al industry. pany’s equipment and services. benefits for both businesses and Group, a Chinese investment com enterprises, according to Chen. “I have taken many phone calls to consumers. It will inject new vitality Visitors try VR video with pany that has recently funded Such optimism is in line with the answer questions from our peers. • Dec 31, 2019: China secures into the push for highquality 5G technology during the 5Grelated startups, said that as the latest report from the China Acade They are all eager to embrace the about 3 million 5G mobile sub growth.” 2019 World 5G Convention technology deepens integration my of Information and Communica technology, because once properly scribers, with some 130,000 He said 5G is not a simple technol in Beijing in November. between digital technologies and tions Technology. The think tank used, 5G can save our lives in an base stations entering service. ogy. It is a platform to link the tele CHEN XIAOGEN / FOR CHINA DAILY traditional sectors, it will also play a forecasts that the commercialization emergency,” Liu said. Huawei braces itself to withstand another year of strong headwinds
By MA SI high and an increase of 18 percent secondlargest smartphone vendor, and partners,” Xu said. “Survival will 5G base stations — with no US com yearonyear. selling more than 240 million hand be our first priority.” ponents — worldwide. Chinese tech major Huawei Tech 850 Xu Zhijun, the company’s rotating sets, a rise of nearly 17 percent on the He said the company will “need to For example, the stations are nologies Co last year faced arguably billion yuan chairman, said in a public letter: 206 million in 2018. go all out” to build the ecosystem for being used in the 5G networks of the biggest challenge in its 30year revenue of Huawei last “Despite concerted efforts by the US Huawei knows that this year will Huawei Mobile Services — the foun Sunrise, the secondlargest telecom plus history. year, a record high and an government to keep us down, we’ve be tough. Xu said the company will dation for its ability to sell smart carrier in Switzerland. The company dealt with lawsuits, increase of 18 percent made it out the other side. These fig have to continue working hard, as it devices in overseas markets. Olaf Swantee, Sunrise CEO, said trade restrictions, spying accusa yearonyear ures are lower than our initial pro does not expect to be removed from Bai Ming, a senior research fellow no business wants to step into politi tions and attempts to ban the use of jections (of $125 billion), yet Washington’s Entity List, which with the Chinese Academy of Inter cal waters, and he regards Huawei its equipment in 5G network roll business remains solid and we stand effectively restricts its ability to buy national Trade and Economic as a “great partner”. out, as the United States intensified strong in the face of adversity.” US products crucial to its smart Cooperation, said Huawei will also “Huawei is dedicated and respon its efforts to curtail Huawei’s global Huawei is Huawei’s carrier business group, phones and telecom equipment. improve its selfdeveloped operating sive in making sure that we have a business. which sells equipment to global tele “It’s going to be a difficult year for system Harmony, in case the US gov defectfree network,” Swantee said. But the latest revenue data show dedicated and com operators, secured more than us,” Xu wrote. “The external environ ernment continues to ban the com Such trust will help support the that the company, based in responsive in 60 contracts for 5G last year. ment is becoming more complicated pany’s access to Google’s Android company, which is likely to face Shenzhen, Guangdong province, It won the trust of foreign carriers, than ever, and downward pressure on operating system in smartphones. stronger headwinds this year. managed to overcome these obsta making sure that despite the efforts by Washington to the global economy has intensified.” As this year will be a tipping point “We are the bamboo stalk that cles, thanks to the efforts of its we have a defect dissuade its allies from using Huawei The company said it will not grow for the largescale construction of stands tall and proud against wind 190,000 employees and its years of equipment in 5G rollout plans. as rapidly this year as it did in the 5G networks worldwide, Huawei from all directions, whether north, research and development prowess. free network.” The company also maintained first half of 2019. “We will have noth said it will actively seize all opportu south, east or west,” Xu said. Huawei said its revenue for last Olaf Swantee, steady momentum in its smart ing to rely on but the hard work of nities to drive global deployment of This spirit is echoed in a line Hua year would top 850 billion yuan Sunrise CEO phone business. Last year, it safe our people, as well as the ongoing the superfast technology. The com wei often uses on its internal portal: ($122 billion), marking a record guarded its reputation as the world’s trust and support of our customers pany has already started shipping “Heroes are forged, not born.”