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On March 28, at the launch of Huawei's 2021 annual report, Guo Ping, the rotating chairman of Huawei, continued to reiterate that he would not build cars. Guo Ping said that Huawei wants to use the technology that Huawei has accumulated for more than 30 years to deeply integrate with the automobile industry to help car companies build and sell good cars. Huawei has built seven smart car solutions and has listed more than 30 smart car parts.

As far as Huawei is concerned, Guo Ping, vice chairman of Huawei, repeatedly stressed Huawei's position of not building cars in a speech in 2015. "We will never build cars," Ren Zhengfei, founder of Huawei, said in an interview on January 17, 2019. In May 2019, Ren Zhengfei said again that "Huawei will not change tracks casually." In October of the same year, Xu Zhijun, the rotating chairman of Huawei, once again denied the car-building matter at the World Intelligent Network Union Automobile Congress. In 2020, Wang Jun, president of Huawei BU, said at the launch of new mobile phone products: Huawei does not build cars, but will help car companies build good cars. In November 2020, an internal Huawei document was exposed, which mentions who will build cars after "Huawei does not build cars", interfere with the company, can be transferred to another job, and look for another job, which is valid for three years. In April 2021, Xu Zhijun again denied building cars at a global analyst conference; subsequently, Huawei's official account issued a "statement that Huawei does not build cars"; at the end of last year, Yu Chengdong reiterated at Huawei's flagship winter conference that "Huawei will not build cars."

Although Huawei has been reiterating that it will not build cars, Huawei's foray into the automotive industry has not stopped. starting in 2013, Huawei began to set up a "vehicle networking business unit" and officially announced its entry into the car network. continue to expand the car technology field. In 2019, Huawei has improved step by step from the three directions of car networking, communication and self-driving, including hardware modules, chips, software, solutions and so on. In 2021, Huawei officially announced the sale of cars and launched its first car on Huawei's website. Cyrus Huawei wisely selected SF5. Then Huawei began to accelerate the pace of car sales, and Huawei Yu Chengdong set a target of selling 300000 units in 2022.

After Huawei announced that it would build a car, Huawei partnered with BAIC Blue Valley to launch the ARCFOX α S Huawei HI version, with an advance price of 38.89-429900 yuan. It is understood that the model is equipped with Huawei self-driving technology, equipped with Huawei smart car solution, integrated Huawei intelligent high-order autopilot system, Hongmeng OS Smart + connected cockpit and so on. This model represents Huawei's highest level of self-driving at present. In May of the same year, Changan NIO New Energy vehicle Technology Co., Ltd., a holding subsidiary of Changan Automobile, changed its name to Avita Technology Co., Ltd., pointing out in the announcement that Avita Technology will work with Changan Automobile, Huawei and Ningde era to build high-end intelligent electric vehicles. In the next five years, Avita will launch five models based on the CHN architecture, among which the model code-named E11 positioning medium-sized SUV will be equipped with Huawei HI smart car solution and will be on the market soon.

QQ M5 was released at Huawei's flagship winter product launch site on December 23, 2021. It is the second cooperation between Cyrus and Huawei. Its biggest highlight is that it is equipped with a brand new HarmonyOS smart cockpit for the first time. In addition, the electric drive system and intelligent cockpit of the M5 are provided by Huawei, and even Huawei is involved in industrial design.

It may not matter whether Huawei builds a car or not. after all, Huawei has mastered the key technology to build a self-driving new energy car. Want to use their own technological advantages to cooperate with car companies. But for this cooperation model, Xiaopeng Automobile, a new force in car building, said: it is good to cooperate with Huawei, but based on the long-term development, we are more optimistic about the integration of hardware and software. He Xiaopeng said bluntly, "I used to do this model at UC, and then I died miserably." Li Bin also said that all software must be developed by themselves, and the system capability cannot be obtained by cooperation.

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