Huawei is a leader technology companies in the world in the number of patent applications (over 26,000 patents for development); it annually invests in research up to 10% of the signed contracts volume (over $ 1 billion per year). The Huawei representatives made a presentation of the areas Chinese companies are mostly interested about in the production of telecommunications equipment.
"Huawei specialists talked about strategic objectives and requirements faced by the company. Now we will seek common ground in terms of joint research and development", says Elena Kopylova, the head of the Department for Relations with the Productive Sector in the Asia-Pacific Region.
In Russia Huawei has one research center, focused on R&D projects and one representative office for sales and operations.
Chinese colleagues are interested in several areas of research conducted at ITMO University, in particular, research in the field of wired and wireless technologies, coding and information transmission, machine learning and other issues.