Huawei Cloud Unveiled "Two 100s" Plan for Chinese Enterprises to Thrive in Europe
Jan 10, 2024
[January 9, 2024, Beijing, China] Huawei Cloud announced the launch of its "Two 100s" plan, aimed at supporting Chinese enterprises in expanding their presence in Europe. The announcement was made at today's Huawei Cloud China-Europe Leadership Forum, which brought together over 100 Chinese entrepreneurs, business leaders, technology experts, and EU institutions and national investment institutions. The forum discussed the opportunities, challenges, and experiences of Chinese enterprises expanding into Europe, and shared business opportunities in global markets. At the event, another key solution, Global Business Boosting 2.0 was unveiled too.
Zhang Xiuzheng, Vice President of Huawei and President of Huawei Cloud China, delivered a speech emphasizing Huawei Cloud's commitment to becoming the best partner for businesses expanding globally. "As the industry seeks growth beyond China, Huawei Cloud recognizes the importance of embracing a new era of technology. With more Chinese enterprises exploring the larger blue ocean market, cloud computing remains a core industry in Huawei's digital strategy. Europe, in particular, is an important business area for Huawei. Huawei Cloud has been instrumental in helping the region build the quality ICT infrastructure through innovative technologies. In addition to infrastructure support, Huawei Cloud has also been actively transferring knowledge and cultivating local talent to help professionals and partners better understand how to move to the cloud and use it effectively. By reducing the difficulty of entering new markets, Huawei Cloud can help customers gain a deeper understanding of local policies and regulations, talent structures, and customer requirements. Moving forward, Huawei will continue to increase investment in local cloud R&D and innovation, providing leading digital technologies to unleash digital productivity."
Zhang Xiuzheng, Vice President, Huawei; President, Huawei Cloud China
Bridging China and Europe with the "Two 100s" Plan
At the Forum, Tim Tao, President of Huawei Cloud Europe, delivered a keynote speech titled "Huawei's 24 Years in Europe: Setting Sail Again to Navigate Cloud". Tao highlighted Europe's strategic significance in Huawei's global layout and introduced Huawei Cloud's initiatives and success stories of "Huawei in Europe, for Europe" in terms of technologies, standards, and services. He said that during the 24 years of operations in Europe, Huawei has established 20 research institutes to serve Europe with technological innovation and speed up Europe's digital journey. He also stated that Huawei Cloud will continue to increase investment and focus on Europe's green and digital transformation strategies to help achieve stronger connectivity, greener energy, greater intelligence, and a better ecosystem.
Tim Tao, President, Huawei Cloud Europe
In addition, Huawei Cloud will provide four packages via its "Two 100s" Plan, including security compliance consulting, special offerings, cloud migration support, and application migration support. These packages aim to help 100 Chinese brands and 100 software partners take root in Europe and better expand their global market space.
"Two 100s" Plan officially released
Expanding Effortlessly with Global Business Boosting 2.0
In the waves of globalization and digitalization, Chinese enterprises face many challenges when expanding into Europe. To ensure growth in the markets outside the Chinese mainland, enterprises need to set the right strategic direction, seize opportunities, and leverage partners' capabilities. The Global Business Boosting 2.0 solution released at this Forum provides security compliance, cloud infrastructure, solutions, operations expertise, and industry ecosystem support for target enterprises.
Pan Jie, Vice President, Huawei Cloud Europe
Pan Jie, Vice President of Huawei Cloud Europe, highlighted Huawei Cloud's established global security compliance system based on years of experience in global operations. By now, Huawei Cloud has obtained more than 130 global security compliance certifications and released more than 20 security compliance packages. Huawei Cloud has also released white papers on privacy protection, data security, and cloud security tailored to the European markets to help customers in privacy and data protection as well as the compliance with local laws and regulations.
In terms of connectivity, Huawei Cloud builds KooVerse, its global cloud infrastructure that enables a 50 ms latency for global access. With seven Regions in Europe and two in Ireland and Türkiye, Huawei Cloud is providing over 110 stable, reliable, and sustainable cloud services for European enterprises, helping them accelerate their digital transformation.
In terms of innovation, Huawei Cloud works with SaaS partners to provide tailored cloud solutions for enterprises in initial, expanding, and mature phases in global expansion. This helps Chinese enterprises smoothly better enter and grow in the European markets.
Leveraging Huawei's more than 20 years of experience in localized operations, Huawei Cloud provides 24/7 operations support through local teams and five service teams in 43 countries.
To support business innovation and sustainable development, Huawei Cloud connects customers to its five industry ecosystems, including ICT, cloud services, devices, digital energy, and smart cars, as weel as the collaboration with Huawei Mobile Services (HMS).
At the Forum, Huawei Cloud's partners, including iFLYTEK and NavInfo, shared their experiences working with Huawei Cloud in Europe to drive the growth of enterprise services through support and innovation. Yue Chen, General Manager of iFLYTEK Europe, discussed the broad prospects of global AI strategic cooperation and the challenges of expanding into Europe. Based on iFLYTEK's experiences, Chen analyzed the benefits of establishing a partner ecosystem for enterprises operating in Europe, and iFLYTEK is willing to work with Huawei Cloud to connect and support Chinese enterprises in Europe.
Yue Chen, General Manager, iFLYTEK Europe
Cao Jingzheng, a senior compliance expert at NavInfo, shared the global data compliance solution. The solution provides six measures, including scalable and customizable deployment, GDPR compliance assurance, privacy protection design, AI-based high-quality anonymization, strong generalization, and cost-effectiveness improvement, safeguarding Chinese automakers going global. NavInfo will continue their partnership with Huawei Cloud to accelerate the global business expansion leveraging cloud native and AI technologies.
Cao Jingzheng, Senior Compliance Expert, NavInfo
In the next two weeks, Huawei Cloud China-Europe Leadership Forum will be held in Dongguan and Shanghai, focusing on topics such as software ecosystem, Internet, and cross-border e-commerce. The forum aims to share technologies, experiences, and global resources, accelerating Chinese enterprises' move towards Europe.