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Family impact:
Ren was born in an intellectual family. His parents never gave up their concern and pursuit of knowledge, and asked him to keep learning from an early age. Even in the difficult period of three years, even if Ren's father was imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution, Ren's parents still asked him to study hard. As early as 1963, under the supervision of his parents, Ren taught himself computer, digital technology, automatic control and other professional technologies and learned three foreign languages.
Founded Huawei:
1987, Ren raised 2 1000 yuan to set up Huawei Company.
1992 Investment C & kloc-0/At the end of 1993, C08 switch was successfully developed, which occupied the market for Huawei because it had more price advantages than similar foreign products.
On June 23, 2003, Cisco sued Huawei and its American branch on the grounds that Huawei copied the company's products. In the face of Cisco's suppression, Ren hired a lawyer to respond to the lawsuit in the United States, and announced the establishment of a joint venture company "Huawei Sankang" with 3COM in March 2003. After that, the CEO of 3COM made a special trip to testify that Huawei did not infringe Cisco's intellectual property rights, and finally the two sides reached a settlement.
In early 2007, Ren wrote to Peng, CEO of IBM, hoping that his company would send financial personnel to help Huawei change its financial management model.
2011/February, Ren published an article "One River Flows eastward" in Huawei's internal forum, revealing Huawei's shareholding system and indicating that the system design was deeply influenced by parents.
On March 22, 20 18, Huawei Investment Holdings Co., Ltd. announced that Ren would no longer serve as the vice chairman and become a member of the board of directors. On March 23rd, Ren's daughter was elected as the vice chairman of Huawei by the workers' congress.
Reference source Baidu Encyclopedia-Ren