One of the challenges faced by digital transformation is talent. According to the World Bank's 20 17 forecast, there will be a global ICT talent gap of100000 in the next decade.
Chen Lifang said: We can't expect everyone to be Copernicus or Chopin, but we can cultivate more high-quality talents through various ways and channels to meet social needs and industrial development. "
How did Huawei do it?
Huawei believes that talent training can't rely solely on schools. The participation of enterprises can train talents needed by society and industry more efficiently and promote scientific research from theory to practice.
Chen Lifang takes 5G as an example. In 2008, Turkish professor Arikan published a paper on "Polarization Code"; 20 10 Huawei realized the potential of this paper and invested a lot of researchers in research. In 20 18, "polarization code" became an important part of 5G standard. Today, there are more than 90 million 5G users in the world, which is inseparable from the efforts of tens of thousands of scientists and engineers in global communication companies. Conversely, in this process, a large number of talents in the 5G industry chain have also been trained.
By the end of 20 19, Huawei had cooperated with more than 900 universities around the world. Every year, we invest more than 300 million dollars in cooperation funds with universities and sponsor more than 300 professors to engage in research, with no intellectual property requirements.
The construction of ICT talent team is a long-term and arduous task, so we need to build an ecosystem, open cooperation and exchange capabilities with the world, and build a talent ecosystem. Talents should flow and ideas should be exchanged. No matter who uses them, the sparks will contribute to society.
It is impossible to train talents only by one or two enterprises. At present, Huawei cooperates with global training partners to provide training and certification services to the global public. By the end of 20 19, there were more than 1 10 authorized training partners in the world, and they cooperated with more than 50 universities around the world to establish ICT colleges. Starting from 20 1 1, Huawei cooperated with Europe 12 countries and institutions to establish Huawei ICT Institute. These ICT colleges have trained more than 65,438+000 ICT college lecturers and about 65,438+0,500 students every year.
To this end, Huawei began to hold the "Future Seeds" project in 2008, aiming at helping to cultivate local ICT talents. At present, more than 30,000 students from more than 500 universities in 126 countries have benefited from it. Huawei's "Future Seeds" project promises that the proportion of girls will reach 40%.
Twenty years ago, Huawei opened its first R&D center in Sweden, and made joint innovations with industry and academia, taking the first step in its development in Europe. Today, 20 years later, Huawei's business has covered all European countries. The European market has supported the global expansion of Huawei's business, and Huawei's long-term development in Europe has also contributed to the prosperity of the European economy. At present, Huawei has more than 654.38+300,000 employees and 23 local R&D centers in Europe. In 20 19, Huawei's GDP in Europe reached16.4 billion euros.