This laboratory is known as the place with the most black technology in China, which represents the highest level of scientific research in China. The name of the laboratory is said to come from Ren's imagination after watching the movie 20 12. In the movie, Ren believes that Huawei must build its own Noah's Ark if it wants to survive in the future when information erupts like a digital flood. Hisilicon and Central Institute of Hardware Engineering, R&D Competence Center and Central Institute of Software are part of the secondary departments of the laboratory. 20 12' s main research fields are next generation communication, cloud computing, audio and video analysis, data mining, machine learning and so on. It is mainly oriented to the development direction in the next 5- 10 years, which well supports Huawei's breakthrough in the 5G field. Many years ago, after seeing a 5G report by a Turkish professor, Huawei began to invest thousands of people in 5G research. Over the years, they have made many proud achievements in the field of 5G, which is closely related to their massive R&D investment and attention to 5G (the R&D investment in the past 10 year reached 480 billion yuan). Recently, Huawei opened some 20 12 laboratories for the first time, which is also the first public appearance of this mysterious laboratory, which is very important for Huawei. It can be said that many innovative frontier scientific research results come from this laboratory.