There's no Huawei a virus can stop us! 90 per cent of our staff in China are already back at work says CEO
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Huawei's founder and CEO, Ren Zhengfei has [1]told the Hong-Kong-based South China Morning Post that more than 90 per cent of the company's 150,000 Chinese workers are back at their desks.
The Reg asked Huawei if it had an official position to accompany the interview. We were told none was available, but that Ren's word can be considered gospel.
On we go then: in his interview Ren said that Huawei resumed some of its operations from February 3, in line with the Chinese governments decision to allow some critical industries to restart early. The company has also kept its supply chain intact by providing partners with protective gear to keep production going.
Ren said that no Huawei workers outside the Chinese province of Hubei has come down with COVID-19. He added that those who had been infected in Hubei were now recovering, but declined to give numbers.
Despite the virus outbreak, which has affected China and Europe, Huawei's two biggest markets, Ren is optimistic about the future. He expects demand for its network gear to remain strong as companies shift to remote working.
"New technologies such as tele-health, online learning and remote working have showed to the world their usefulness in preventing disease from spreading, as well as the importance of network connections," Ren told the Post .
"Even when the West is feeling the mounting impact of the coronavirus, most our projects can actually enhance their capabilities [during the outbreak]. There is a demand we need to meet," he added.
Despite Ren's positive outlook, he conceded that the company would lower its financial targets for the year in its financial results due later this month. But Ren is confident that Huawei will meet its new financial goals for the year. The company has previously said in a New Year's message to employees that revenues rose last year by about 18 per cent, to $122bn. ®
[1] https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-leaders-and-founders/article/3076939/founder-ren-says-huawei-working-round-clock-amid
Re: Bad becomes good
Governments have had a valid reason reason to spy on us for a while now.
It's just that now, they have a justifiable one.
Re: Bad becomes good
I see tin foil hattery remains unaffected.
killer app
Forget about the ever increasing megapixel count - and lens count, on new model phones.
The first manufacturer to put a working temperature gun onto their phone is going to leave the competition for dead.
Re: killer app
Temperature scans are not reliable enough. What you need is the new covid antibody test, with integrated needle to prick yourself.
Re: killer app
Enough pricks call my phone already. I don't need any built-in ones as well.
Re: killer app
Yes, the antibody test will kill two birds (could be crows but any will do) with one stone:
provide much more reliable data about the actual infection rate and hence the morbidity and mortality rates
provide an excellent source for treatment
Stealing a (long) March
The Chinese see the enormous potential of getting production back up as everyone else shuts it down: Rockefeller would be delighted. For some markets there will be even less choice but to buy from China, including much of the kit and research related to Corvid-19 (or crow flu as I would like it be known erroneously).
The the same time, the Chinese government looks more organised and reliable and less capricious than many western governments, which are still swaying between populist impulses, scientific advice and practicability.
Re: Stealing a (long) March
more organised and reliable and less capricious
Reminds me of the old saying that at least under Mussolini the trains ran on time...
Re: Stealing a (long) March
And the Nazis invented motorways…
Didn't stop them being complete shits, just like Mussolini.
Re: Stealing a (long) March
"The the same time, the Chinese government looks more organised and reliable and less capricious than many western governments, which are still swaying between populist impulses, scientific advice and practicability."
That Chinese success story in full.
1) Allow the ridiculous practice of wet markets to continue, despite it being responsible for several outbreaks of novel diseases in the past.
2) When the next outbreak happens, destroy evidence and suppress the story, while gaining information on it.
3) Don't tell anyone so that it gets silently exported to the rest of the world.
4) Institute dystopian lockdowns that are impossible elsewhere unless you are already set up as a dystopian surveillance state.
5) Fling around ridiculous conspiracy theories about it being the US Army that brought it to China, while accusing anyone that points out that this is entirely China's fault of racism.
6) Crow about how your response proves that China is fantastic and the disease you exported to everyone else is somehow proof that your way is better.
Re: Stealing a (long) March
You should re-read my post: I'm not complimenting China just observing how things may look in many places and how it is poised to benefit from the situation.
1) Allow the ridiculous practice of wet markets to continue, despite it being responsible for several outbreaks of novel diseases in the past.
This has already largely been debunked as the cause of the outbreak. We all need to rethink our intensive farming practices because we have virtually no way of dealing with an MRSA outbreak which has a far higher mortality rate than any of the current crop of viruses.
Re: Corvid-19
Bloody Magpies!!
Bad becomes good
Huawei ..... oh yes: 5G rollout.
Way back in the beginning of time (i.e. December 2019, before Coronavirus took over every news channel) there was a bit of a kerfuffle about the UK using Chinese kit in its nascent 5G network. Doncha know? they might spy on us. Just imagine!
Three months later and governments all over the world are considering ways to do just that. To track their people and see who they come in close proximity to. It seems to me that this "spying" stuff is ideally suited to this application. And since the Chinese seem to be ahead of the game in mass surveillance, they could probably supply a turnkey system to fully integrate with their 5G systems. To do just what governments now consider a valid reason to "spy" on us all.