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Zheng Gang, former party committee standing committee member of BAIC and general manager of BAIC New Energy, has recently joined Huawei and will become vice president of Huawei's Smart car Solutions Division (BU), but Huawei has not officially replied publicly, according to several media reports.

The current position to join Huawei was in May, when Ren Zhengfei issued an organizational change document to set up BU, a smart car solution, managed by the ICT management committee. Smart car solution BU is responsible for industry insight and customer demand analysis in the field of smart car, as well as strategic planning and business planning for smart car industry solutions. At the same time, Huawei has appointed Wang Jun, president of wireless network business and Japanese carrier business, as president of smart car solutions business.

According to the announcement, Zheng Gang graduated from Peking University with a master's degree and obtained a senior economist with many years of experience in the automotive industry. he has worked in a number of automobile companies; in 2009, he joined BAIC as director of the group office, administrative affairs and brand director; and in 2014, he served as party secretary and general manager of BAIC New Energy.

In February this year, he said he offered to resign due to health reasons and became a special adviser to the chairman of Tieniu Group. However, industry insiders speculate that Zheng Gang is just a transition in Tieniu Group. According to public information, Huawei Smart car Solutions Division (BU) was decided by Ren Zhengfei, who issued Huawei document No. 223 on May 29 last year.

Although the establishment of the department covers the core technology of future smart cars, Huawei has repeatedly claimed that it will not build cars. We do the car networking module, the electronic part of the car-edge computing is done by us. According to Huawei's positioning of the smart car solution BU, Huawei is the end-to-end business responsibility body in the smart car field, providing smart car ICT components and solutions to help enterprises build good cars.

At present, Huawei has partnered with a number of car companies, including SAIC, FAW, BAIC, Changan, Dongfeng, Great Wall, Geely and so on, as well as industrial giants such as Audi, whose goal is to provide more support for traditional mainframe factories in smart driving.

The addition of Zheng Gang is of great help for Huawei to enter the automobile industry. Zheng Gang, who has been in the automobile industry for many years, has an understanding of the automobile industry and products, and is more familiar with the industry, especially new energy vehicles. nowadays, the automobile industry is facing the industry transformation from mechanization to intelligence, from four modernizations to new four modernizations. Huawei has the core technology of intelligent technology. Coupled with Zheng Gang's understanding of the industry, Huawei will have a faster integration into the development of the automotive industry.

However, many outsiders believe that Zheng Gang, a highly scarce talent, used to be the general manager of BAIC New Energy, while the position of vice president at Huawei is a little on the low side. Technology is not Zheng Gang's specialty, in Huawei can only play the role of "assistant", can not become the "main force", which means that Zheng Gang is very difficult to become the core executive of Huawei, if Huawei does not build cars, Zheng Gang will not be meaningful to join.

Although Huawei has always claimed that it does not build cars, there is a great possibility that Huawei will build cars, not only with abundant funds, but also in the future, new energy vehicles will be the new four modernizations that integrate mobile phones, smart homes, cars and PCs. Huawei has a potential that is more likely to be realized than Evergrande.

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