Huawei’s 10 year anniversary in Romania gathers top Romanian and Chinese officials

”Romania is a very important market for Huawei because it has a very favorable geographic position, good logistics and an effective governing, said Amy Lin, global vice-president for public affairs and communications at Huawei. ”In Romania, Huawei could well be offering services to over 80 percent of the Romanian population and over 14 million inhabitants can well be using our products,” she added.

Chinese supplier of telecom equipment and services Huawei celebrated a decade since opening its office in Romania in a ceremony that was attended by Romanian prime-minister Victor Ponta, Her Excellency Huo Yuzhen, Chinese ambassador to Romania, Amy Lin, global vice-president for Public Affairs and Communications at Huawei and Wang Haitao, general manager of Huawei Romania.

Photo by Mihai Constantineanu

Photo by Mihai Constantineanu

Other members of the audience included Catalin Marinescu, president of telecom watchdog ANCOM, Nikolai Beckers, CEO of Romtelecom and Cosmote Romania, Jean-Francois Fallacher, CEO of Orange Romania and Dinu Malacopol, CEO at Digital Cable Systems, to name just a few.

“I believe Romania has great human potential in the development of new technologies. It is not by chance that we are one of the first countries in Europe to implement 4G technology and Huawei will be an important supplier of 4G technology for telecom companies in Romania,” said PM Ponta.

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Romania is the first country that has started to acces the USD 10 billion partnership between China and Central and Eastern European countries through a program of acquisitions of communication technologies,” he added.

The PM said that the fact that Huawei can see in Romania a development center for the entire Europe is very good news and the government will offer its full support so that this strategy will be implemented. ”It is clear that the generations who follow are a target for Huawei. We want to offer a chance to young Romanians who are extremely well prepared and I think in collaboration with a strong company like Huawei, Romania will become European leader in this field,” said Ponta.

According to the Chinese ambassador Yuzhen, annual revenues of Huawei in Romania were USD 250 million in 2012.

Last week, the Romanian PM visited the Huawei headquarters in China.

”The company’s global revenues last year surpased USD 35.4 billion, and in the first semester global revenues surpased USD 20 billion. Huawei entered the European market 13 years ago. Now it has over 30 branches and over 7,500 employees in Europe,” said Amy Lin.

Otilia Haraga