Enterprises with outstanding social contributions are very important to social development, so let's take a look at how much Huawei has contributed to our society. 202 1, Huawei paid 90.3 billion yuan, ranking first in the tax list of private enterprises. It is twice the total tax paid by Tencent, Ali and Baidu, but Huawei is not the largest and most profitable private enterprise. Why is there such a high tax?
This is related to the company's place of registration, because the company chooses different places of registration, and the tax paid varies greatly. As everyone who runs the company knows, there is a place called Cayman Islands in Britain called "tax haven", and many Internet companies in China have chosen their registered places there. However, Huawei disdains to do so, but chooses Shenzhen as the place of registration and pays taxes honestly every year.
Therefore, even if we earn the same amount of money, Huawei will make greater contributions to society. If you want to avoid taxes, Huawei can easily avoid it, but it has not done so. I think this is a manifestation of social responsibility. Moreover, Huawei is one of the few enterprises that can earn money from foreigners. So if such enterprises really close down one day, is it a social loss?
Not only that, Huawei is very willing to spend money in many ways. Unlike some private enterprises, most of the money earned will go into the boss's private pocket. Huawei is not only willing to spend money on technology investment, but also eager for talents. Every year, we will seek talents from fresh graduates with high salaries, which is very beneficial to our talent training. Generally, many enterprises cannot provide such an environment.
Although Huawei is now facing difficulties, it is not soft on scientific research investment. The R&D expenditure of 202 1,142.7 billion yuan ranks first among private enterprises, accounting for 22.4% of the total revenue, and Ali, the second place, only has 57.8 billion yuan. There are many companies that claim to be technology companies, but few companies are really willing to spend money on research and development. Huawei's investment of this order of magnitude, ranking first in patents, is of course well deserved.
In the past, many high-end scientific and technological talents had to choose to go abroad for development after graduation, because there were few domestic environments suitable for them to play. But now Huawei can provide a platform for many scientists, programmers, engineers and physicists to give full play to their talents and give them the high salaries they deserve. At present, Huawei has nearly 200,000 employees worldwide, but the average salary can enter the top five levels of domestic enterprises. How many companies can do it?
Chip design and manufacturing have always been our weakness, but Huawei has finally developed a Kirin chip through its own efforts, which can compete with Apple A series and Qualcomm Snapdragon. Now many companies have realized the importance of chips and started to develop their own chips. However, there is a big gap with Huawei at present, but the success of Huawei has made these enterprises see the dawn.
The system is also a very weak place for us. Previously, mobile phones were mainly Android and IOS. After several failures, many companies were reluctant to do it again, but Huawei put HarmonyOS system in front of us. After several months of experience, I feel that I have succeeded. If country M continues to ban other domestic manufacturers from using Android in the future, at least there will be no choice now, which will fill the market gap.
In the field of 5G, Huawei formulated the 5G standard, and realized the integration of 5G baseband several years ago. As for what Apple can't do at present (5G baseband research and development failed), Huawei has already completed it, and the outstanding moment is outstanding. In the field of communication, Huawei has naturally ranked first in the world. With the authorization of 5G patents, Huawei has been able to obtain a large amount of income, which is the pride of our scientific and technological community.
However, at present, the market competition is very cruel. In the face of such excellent Huawei, how can those competitors make Huawei easily earn money from their country and steal the limelight of their technology companies? In order to suppress Huawei, a series of sanctions followed. Since 20 18, the United States has continuously increased its pressure on Huawei. First, Google suspended its cooperation with Huawei, and then Australia banned Huawei from participating in the construction of 5G networks.
First, convince Arm chip design company to give up Huawei, and then directly upgrade to the hardware level, stipulating that the use of American equipment and technology to produce chips for Huawei on a global scale must be approved by the United States. This forced TSMC and SMIC to stop producing chips for Huawei. At this time, Huawei completely reached the most difficult moment, because the top chips designed by Huawei can only be processed by TSMC.
At this time, Huawei still didn't give up and began to purchase chips from MediaTek in large quantities, hoping to stretch the front line to tide over the difficulties, but the United States didn't leave this last glimmer of hope. The ban escalated rapidly, and MediaTek was also included in the ban list. Huawei has no channel to buy high-end chips. Now Huawei's previously purchased 5G chips should have been used up, so this year's Mate50 only supports 4G networks.
As the developer with the most 5G patents in the world, I can't use this technology, so I can imagine how wronged I am. But this is not Huawei's fault, because chip manufacturing is a very complex industrial chain, and it is impossible for a single enterprise to complete it. Even Samsung, which has the most complete industrial chain, cannot be completely independent. Originally, Huawei let us see the hope of the chip, and of course we also saw despair.
But if we don't research ourselves and continue to play by buying, there is still hope for our scientific and technological development. A company that is willing to invest like Huawei personally feels that it is worthy of support, not to mention that the product itself is doing very well, and there is really no reason not to support it if there is demand.