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Ren Zhengfei
Ren Zhengfei is a Chinese entrepreneur and engineer who is the founder and CEO of Huawei Technologies, which is located in Shenzhen, China, and is the world's largest manufacturer of telecommunications equipment and second largest manufacturer of smartphones and Huawei Chinese Electric Cars.
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business · Chinese entrepreneur and engineer (born 1944) · entrepreneur · businessperson · also Ren Zhengfei, Zhengfei
Born 25 October 1944 · Q712802
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2025· 1 entry
2019· 1 entry
GizChina: Ren Zhengfei: Huawei will consider selling its 5G baseband to ANY company
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2018· 1 entry
Was named one of the "100 Outstanding Private entrepreneurs in the 40 years of Reform and opening up"
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2005· 2 entries
Ren Zhengfei and Zhang Ziyi (章子怡) were included in Time Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world
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Ren Zhengfei brought all the voice teams of the Harbor Shenzhen Research Institute to Huawei for 1 million
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2002· 1 entry
In the face of Harbor Network Company gaining market share and poaching Huawei employees, Ren Zhengfei withdrew the license granted by Huawei to Harbor Network to sell Huawei products, and set up a "hit Hong Kong Office"
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1998· 1 entry
Due to contention between Li Yinan (李一男) and Ren Ping and Zheng Baoyong (郑宝用), Ren transferred Li from the Central Research Department to take charge of the product department and to serve as head of the marketing depart
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1996· 1 entry
Ren led Huawei to compete in the international market, partnering with Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Telecom: Huawei provided it with commercial network products with narrow-band switches as its core products
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1992· 1 entry
Ren Zhengfei invited professors and students from Huazhong Technology University, Tsinghua University, and others to visit
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1987· 2 entries
Career landmark: chief executive officer (1987).
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Ren Zhengfei, 43, and his partners founded Shenzhen Huawei Technology Co
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1983· 1 entry
Was appointed deputy general manager of an electronics company owned by the group
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1982· 1 entry
The government of the People's Republic of China readjusted its economic and military system and reduced the size of the army
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1974· 1 entry
In order to build for industrial modernization, he established Liaoyang Petrochemical Fiber General Factory in Liaoyang
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1970· 1 entry
Obeyed a policy directed at all college students in leaving school to join the army for training
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1968· 1 entry
Ren Zhengfei graduated from university and was assigned to the 304th Battalion of the 31st Detachment of the Infrastructure Engineering Corps in Anshun, which was founded in 1966, to participate in the construction of th
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1966· 1 entry
When Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution, Ren, who was studying in college, received a letter mentioning that his father had been dismissed and criticized for his experience working in the Kuomintang's 412 milita
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1963· 1 entry
19-year-old Ren was admitted to Chongqing Institute of Architectural Engineering (later merged into Chongqing University) to major in building services engineering
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1960· 1 entry
In his third year of high school, there was a serious famine in Guizhou Province
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1944· 1 entry
Born 1944-10-25.
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