Openness, Collaboration, and Shared Success

The intelligent world is approaching faster, and AI is poised to redefine the future of society more deeply and broadly than ever before. AI will continue to boost productivity, but more importantly, it will reshape underlying business logic, entire service models, and value chains. No single company can navigate this massive transformation alone. Industries need to work together to tackle these challenges and maximize the value of AI.

We stand ready to work closely with our partners on open and joint innovation. We hope to pave the way for more intelligent and greener industries. And to achieve this, we will take a systems engineering approach and work together to develop multiple forms of intelligence, build an open system for AI agents, bring computing power to new heights, and develop new devices, media, connectivity, architectures, and components.

Huawei will continue to openly collaborate with industry organizations and ecosystem partners across domains, including the public and private sectors, academia, research institutes, and users. We will keep contributing to standards and sharing both industry insights and technical challenges. Through these efforts, we hope to drive the industry and technology forward. The groups we serve are expanding to include developers, in addition to businesses and consumers. Through industry collaboration, we aim to strengthen digital infrastructure, give developers the tools they need to innovate, and cultivate an open, collaborative, and sustainable ecosystem.

Key progress and industry contributions

Huawei actively works with global industry organizations, and we hold more than 450 key positions in nearly 800 of these groups, including academic associations, standards organizations, industry alliances, and open-source communities around the world. We promote deeper partnerships and mutual recognition of standards between industry organizations, and work hard to address industry challenges, breakpoints, and bottlenecks.

Standardization: We firmly support the unification of global standards, promote innovation in standards development, and work with industry partners to open up, co-develop, and share global standards, helping pave the way for an intelligent world. In 2025, we submitted more than 7,000 contributions to standards organizations worldwide, and actively promoted consensus on global standards through organizations like 3GPP, ITU, IEC, and ISO. We are helping drive coordinated technological upgrade in fields such as connectivity, media, devices, and computing.

Industry development: AI technologies are rapidly evolving, enabling industries to go digital and intelligent faster. This is also fueling rapid innovation in fields like connectivity, computing, devices, media, and energy. Through ongoing contribution to these fields, we aim to promote sustainable, green, and low-carbon development, and we are stepping up efforts to strengthen global industry cooperation. In 2025:

• We actively contributed industry white papers, testbeds, and standards to nearly 20 international organizations.
• We worked with our partners to launch new intelligent solutions for industries like smart cities, finance, transportation, manufacturing, electric power, mining, and oil and gas. These solutions are aimed at helping industries go digital and intelligent.
• We released the Intelligent World 2035 report, which outlines key technological trends that the world will see in the next decade, as well as their impact on industries like education, healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and electric power.
• We released the Guide for Applying AI in the Industrial Sector together with the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Tsinghua University's Institute for AI Industry Research, and Roland Berger. This Guide is a reference for business decision makers, analyzing common approaches and challenges when applying AI in the industrial sector. It provides case studies and identifies high-value scenarios in seven industrial domains, including automotive, machinery, pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, and iron and steel.

Ecosystem development: Thriving ecosystems are one of the primary driving forces behind industry development. They are also a source of limitless innovation for the future. We are committed to innovation, open source, and open systems, as we work to build up new ecosystems and new options for the intelligent world. Ecosystem development is a core strategy at Huawei, with greater importance than ever before. To better support ecosystem growth, we will keep opening up and innovating. We will honor our commitment to open source and open systems, talent development, global collaboration, and strategic investment. These are part of our broader efforts to continuously create new value for the industry.

Standards organizations

We work with customers and partners to unify global standards. We promote innovation in standards development, and support efforts to open up, co-develop, and share global standards. In the age of AI, we are also working to drive technological upgrade in fields like connectivity, media, devices, and computing, and actively contributing to sustainable development goals.

• Within 3GPP, we are actively promoting unified global standards for mobile communications and pushing the limits of technology, helping lay the foundation for the age of mobile AI.
• Through the ITU, guided by the United Nations' shared vision for humanity, we are working with industry partners to contribute to AI for Good and support the development of inclusive, trustworthy, sustainable, and high-quality future networks for an intelligent world.
• In the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector, we worked with partners to promote the release of the ION-2030 vision for next-generation optical networks, and we are actively contributing to standards on network architecture, data interoperability, and digital infrastructure security in the age of AI.
• In the ITU Radiocommunication Sector, we are actively exploring how to more effectively utilize global spectrum for international mobile telecommunications (IMT), and supporting the sustainable development of global wireless connectivity.
• Within the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), we are actively contributing to the Market Strategy Board for strategic market trends, the Standardization Management Board for industry standards, and the Conformity Assessment Board for certification and accreditation, advancing digital progress in various industries.
• Within ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee (JTC) 1, we are actively contributing to standardization in audio and video, AI, cyber security, and other related fields. We are working together to build consensus on requirement collection and the standardization pace for next-generation audio and video codecs. We are also working together to promote consensus on standardization in AI ecosystems, post-quantum cryptography, AI security governance, and other key areas. These initiatives are aimed at driving intelligent upgrade across the entire industry.
• Through the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), we are working with partners to advance the maturity of IPv6 Enhanced protocol and technologies, and contributing to new Internet connectivity technologies, AI agent protocols, and post-quantum cryptography migration. These are part of our broader efforts to help build industry consensus on AI-powered connectivity, and support smooth evolution to Net5.5G.
• Together with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), we drove the initiation of the 802.11bq standard that focuses on integrated millimeter wave technology for Wi-Fi 8, supporting evolution to 10-gigabit networks.
• Through the China Communications Standards Association (CCSA), we promoted the signing of a collaboration agreement with TM Forum on autonomous driving network (ADN) standards, marking a key milestone in the internationalization of CCSA standards.

Industry alliances

Huawei is a committed partner in major industry alliances around the world. Together, we are working to promote sustainable industry development and help vertical industries go digital and intelligent.

• Strengthening international industry collaboration to advance digital and intelligent transformation: Huawei is an active partner in international industry organizations such as GSMA, WBBA, GeSI, AI Assurance Club, IDSA, OPC Foundation, and ZVEI. We actively contribute industry white papers, testbeds, and standards recommendations to support the development and application of new digital and intelligent technologies in sectors such as communications, electronics, manufacturing, electric power, iron and steel, coal mining, oil and gas, and ports. Together, we are driving digital and intelligent transformation forward.
• Promoting industry competitiveness and sustainable development: We are a major contributor to industry organizations such as GCC, UWA, WAA, iSLA, GIIC, and NIDA, and actively participate in industry activities organized by these organizations. We are working closely with partners all along the value chain to promote industry-wide consensus, standards development, testing and certification, and talent cultivation. These efforts help promote sustainable development in industries such as diversified computing, audio and video, short-range communications, smart Internet of Things (IoT), and fixed networks.

Academic associations

Huawei embraces an open and diverse academic culture. We actively engage with global academic associations as part of our efforts to identify and explore future research directions and cultivate STEM talent. Together, we are invigorating academic pursuits while driving economic progress.

Probing the endless frontiers of science through sharing and exchange:

• In 2025, we shared our perspectives on the future of computing, AI, and foundational software at international academic conferences, and we are working with researchers worldwide to draft a technological blueprint for the intelligent world.
• We strengthened collaboration with organizations like the China Computer Federation, releasing more than 80 new research topics to help drive progress in computer science.
• We continue to support academic research in AI, regularly publishing papers at top conferences and driving the adoption of AI in science.

Contributing new ideas to academic associations: We have published more than 1,200 papers in high-impact journals and conferences, such as those organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and IEEE.

Cultivating STEM talent through top competitions: To inspire and engage the next generation of STEM talent, we contribute real-world industry challenges to global tech competitions like the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC).

Ecosystem development

Our ecosystem approach focuses on long-term development, putting developers front and center. We prioritize developer experience, aiming to grow together with the ecosystem we're a part of. We embrace and contribute to open source, and promote openness, co-development, and technology sharing. We also help cultivate next-generation talent, and invest strategically to drive technological innovation and ecosystem development around the world.

We are committed to building diverse and sustainable ecosystems through open source.

• Huawei actively participates in major open-source organizations and projects. We are a member of more than 20 international open-source foundations, including the Linux Foundation, Apache Software Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, OpenAtom Foundation, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), PyTorch Foundation, and OpenWallet Foundation. Huawei's developers contribute to more than 300 open-source communities.
• With a focus on foundational software, Huawei has launched over 10 influential open-source projects, including KubeEdge, MindSpore, Volcano, openEuler, openGauss, OpenHarmony, openPangu, and openJiuwen. We are going fully open source and open system with our Mind software series for Ascend application enablement, Compute Architecture for Neural Networks (CANN), and ModelEngine full-process toolchain for AI training and inference, which have attracted a large number of developers worldwide. In 2025, multiple Huawei developers won Annual PyTorch Contributor Awards.
• We are actively engaged in the governance and development of foundational software ecosystems with industry partners. In 2025, we continued to actively contribute to two of the OpenAtom Foundation's core projects – OpenHarmony and openEuler. The OpenHarmony community has attracted more than 10,000 individual contributors and 523 ecosystem partners, who have submitted more than 130 million lines of code. The openEuler community has rallied more than 2,100 organization members and over 25,000 developers. openEuler has seen over 5.8 million downloads worldwide, and its installations have exceeded 16 million. In 2025, openEuler and OpenHarmony became the first projects to reach Graduation maturity level in the OpenAtom Foundation.
• Huawei is committed to building a trusted and sustainable open-source ecosystem. We play an active role in the OpenChain and OpenSSF communities, and work closely with partners to build a secure and reliable open-source software supply chain. Huawei is also working with communities like OSS Compass to build an open-source ecosystem evaluation system, promoting the healthy development of open-source communities.

We continue to open up and work closely with developers to build thriving ecosystems. We center end-to-end product design and implementation on developer experience, build ecosystem-friendly systems and architectures, work together on capability development, and share innovative technology to make it easier for developers to innovate.

• Kunpeng BoostKit is evolving nonstop. It now provides more than 100 basic acceleration libraries, the Omni series for big data, and more, to give developers more flexibility and independence in application innovation.
• We are upgrading our Ascend CANN architecture and opening up Ascend components, covering the entire process from resource deployment and training and inference acceleration to model reference and application development. We are also evolving the Ascend community to enhance scenario-based knowledge retrieval, reference samples, and development pipelines. All of these initiatives aim to provide developers with more comprehensive knowledge and experience and enable them to make better use of Ascend hardware.
• OpenHarmony has grown to become the digital foundation of numerous industries. Currently, more than 1,300 software and hardware products have passed the OpenHarmony compatibility test and have been deployed in industries such as finance, transportation, energy, and aerospace. HarmonyOS is evolving into a more intelligent operating system for all scenarios. Built on a new interconnection architecture, security architecture, and the Harmony Agent Framework (HMAF), HarmonyOS is opening up innovative functionality to enable the intelligent upgrade of applications. The developer community has developed more than 70 innovative functionalities, which have been integrated into more than 23,000 applications.
• Huawei Cloud has fully upgraded its Developer Space, giving developers free access to more time on its cloud development environment, more function calls, and more tokens. This provides each developer with a cloud host that allows them to directly use cloud-based Kunpeng and Ascend compute during local development, bringing remote development experience to the next level.

We actively cultivate talent to lay the groundwork for industry development.

• We work closely with universities around the world to integrate Huawei's industry-specific tech capabilities into their talent development systems. We are also strengthening collaboration with industries to combine theory with practice and help university students grow into industry-ready professionals more rapidly. We have built a complete talent development pipeline covering teaching materials, trainer enablement, advocate development, new class openings, course development, and subject-specific competitions, as well as innovation competitions, hands-on training, certification, and job fairs. As of the end of 2025, we had developed more than 3,000 courses, formed more than 3,000 ICT academies with universities, developed more than 1,300 advocates in colleges and universities, and cultivated more than 18 million developers. More than 1.1 million certifications have been issued to date.

Huawei is committed to helping ecosystems grow, and we continue to strengthen strategic investments and provide stronger support for ecosystem development through programs like the Shining Star Program, Huawei Cloud Developer Program, AI 100 Schools Plan, Kunpeng Partner Program, and Ascend Partner Program. We are also working closely with universities, developers, ecosystem partners, and open-source communities to build more thriving ecosystems.

Industrial policy

We are working to unleash the full business and social value of the ICT industry and promote digital inclusion.

We share best practices in digital economy development to promote digital inclusion.

• Huawei and IDC jointly proposed the concept of a "Digital First Economy", encouraging policymakers to introduce more favorable policies that support the development of digital infrastructure, digital economy ecosystems, and digital talent. We have also shared best practices from different countries and regions in advancing their digital economies. These are part of our broader efforts to create greater social and business value, and to promote sustainable development through digital inclusion.
• At the World Economic Forum, ITU, and other international organizations and open forums, we regularly share our experience and best practices in promoting digital and intelligent transformation, digital inclusion, and more.

We are a firm supporter of globalization.

• We actively participate in public consultations on industrial policy, standards, and specifications in all countries where we operate. These efforts include sharing recommendations on cloud-based and intelligent digital infrastructure, digital talent development programs, and new business model incubation. In every country, our goal is to promote inclusive and sustainable digital transformation.
• We released the Global Digitalization and Intelligence Index (GDII) 2025 which provides a comprehensive measurement framework that includes a number of key indicators such as data scale and application level, network connectivity breadth and quality, computing and storage capacity and efficacy, ICT skills, and innovation ecosystems. This report is designed to provide quantitative insights into digital economic development and policymaking for countries where we operate.