‘Huawei just completed its Shanghai Qingpu project and was given the official name of Huawei Lianqiu Lake R&D Center. EE Times China (via machine translation) says this sprawling facility costs over 10 billion Yuan (almost $1.4 billion) and covers 2,600 acres. The company also constructed over 40,000 offices, which is expected to house 35,000 Huawei personnel.’
‘The Lianqiu Lake R&D Center is located about 30 miles West-Southwest of the center of Shanghai, and it’s expected to gather all of Huawei’s research and development efforts, including work on HiSilicon, wireless technologies like 5G-A/6G, Huawei smartphones, automobiles, and digital energy research. The R&D Center is divided into eight districts and will have roads, trains, and elevated overpasses to connect each one to another.’
‘The project started in September 2021 and took the company over three years to complete. Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei said that the company used the Chicago Lakeside Complex as inspiration for the project. He added that the Yangtze River Delta is a beautiful environment suitable for foreigners, where the seven or eight hundred foreign scientists working at Huawei won’t feel like they are in a different country.’
