Huawei's Initial Plan To Build A Campus In Cambridge, UK, Has Been Put On Hold, Involving 1 Billion Pounds Of Investment

Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturer Huawei purchased 500 acres of land in the Cambridge Science and Technology Park in the UK in 2018, and plans to build a local R&D center for optical fiber network-related optoelectronic products.

Huawei once said that the first phase of the project will invest 1 billion pounds and build 50,000 square Mi facilities are expected to create 400 job opportunities for the Cambridge area, but recently some British media pointed out that Huawei has quietly canceled the project.

The first phase of the project was supposed to be completed in 2021, but it has never started. The planning permission for the land will expire in August this year. Local councilors tried to contact Huawei to learn about the progress, but they have not received a reply for a long time.

The British "Telegraph" recently reported that Huawei had unofficially canceled the project, and a Huawei spokesperson said in response to the newspaper's inquiries that the project had been in progress before the outbreak of the epidemic, and is currently under internal review. It will expire within 5 months, but it has not been clearly stated whether construction work will start before the deadline.

Huawei's decision to cancel the Cambridge R&D center project is not so much affected by the outbreak of the epidemic, but more because the group is sanctioned by the United States and European countries.

The British government earlier required telecommunications companies to remove Huawei's telecommunications equipment from the network by the end of 2027 on the grounds of national security, and also prohibited organizations from purchasing Huawei equipment.

Huawei cannot sell telecommunications equipment in most European and American countries, and there is no need to open a research and development center in the UK.