Inside Huawei £1.2billion ‘research and development’ campus where staff are forced to sleep under desks during hellish ‘endless’ shifts
THESE stunning pictures show the grim reality of life inside Huawei’s £1.2bn research and development centre – where exhausted employees sleep at their desks and endure endless gruelling night shifts. The vast complex is packed with 30,000 workers and covers more space than London’s Hyde Park. The photos give Westerners a rare-glimpse into the sprawling […]
THESE stunning pictures show the grim reality of life inside Huawei’s £1.2bn research and development centre – where exhausted employees sleep at their desks and endure endless gruelling night shifts.
The vast complex is packed with 30,000 workers and covers more space than London’s Hyde Park.
The photos give Westerners a rare-glimpse into the sprawling factory that keeps British and American spies up at night.
One shot shows stressed-out young employees hunched over as they silently graft on a relentless production line.
Another shows them glued to their smartphones as they queue for European-style cuisine in a lavish canteen.
The base at Songshan Lake is known as the Huawei Xiliu Beipo Village – but is nicknamed the Ox Horn Campus in English.
BIGGER THAN HYDE PARK
One sector is based on French capital Paris – with other areas taking inspiration from Friboug, Switzerland, Heidelberg, Germany, Bruges, Belgium, and Oxford, England.
Each zone is linked by red trams imported from Switzerland.
Huawei’s President Ren Zhengfei said: “140 years ago, the world’s centre was in Pittsburgh because of steel; 70 years ago, the world’s centre was in Detroit because of cars; now where is the centre of the world? I don’t know, but it will decentralised.
“Companies will move to places where the cost is low, high cost will destroy your competitiveness.”
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It comes after Theresa May gave Huawei the green light to supply part of Britain’s 5G network.
The US has banned Huawei from government networks and urged the UK and other intelligence partners such as Australia to do the same.
Chinese firms are legally obliged to cooperate with Beijing’s state intelligence agencies.
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