TIME magazine in the US published a signed article by Xu Zhijun, Huawei's Rotating Chairman, in which he recounted his personal innovation journey since joining the company in 1993—driving IPD transformation, developing distributed base stations and SingleRAN, and incubating 5G and Ascend through the 2012 Labs. From 2007 to 2025, Huawei's cumulative R&D investment exceeded 1.8 trillion RMB.
