Huawei is scaling its open source platforms OpenHarmony and openEuler to accelerate innovation, talent development, and digital sovereignty across the Middle East and Central Asia.
Huawei is strengthening its open source leadership across the Middle East and Central Asia, positioning OpenHarmony and openEuler as core engines of regional digital transformation. OpenHarmony has expanded by 10 million lines of code with contributions from more than 8100 developers, while openEuler has surpassed 10 million installations, emerging as a major enterprise-grade operating system. Huawei’s open platforms now anchor local developer ecosystems and national strategies for AI, cloud, and digital sovereignty.
These commitments were reinforced at Huawei’s sixth Innovation and Intellectual Property (IP) Forum, which focused on openness, IP protection, and regional innovation ecosystems. “Open innovation drives society and technology forward, and it’s in our DNA,” said Liuping Song, Chief Legal Officer at Huawei. “Huawei respects the IP of others and protects its own, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.”
Huawei’s global R&D leadership underpins this growth. The company invests over 10 per cent of its annual revenue in R&D, reaching 20 per cent in recent years, and ranks sixth worldwide for R&D expenditure. In 2024 alone, Huawei published 37,000 patents, delivered over 10,000 technical contributions to standard bodies, and generated US$630 million in licensing revenue. Marco Alemán, Assistant Director General of WIPO, noted, “Huawei is a leading global user of WIPO’s Global IP Services and a strong driver of innovation… and has been the top user of the PCT system since 2014.”
Across the region, Huawei is building capacity with over 310 ICT Academies, 500,000 trained professionals, and 48,000 HCIA-certified talents. Its expanding partner ecosystem spans 3000 enterprises, while the AI-enabled Chaspark Patent platform is lowering barriers to innovation for students, researchers, and entrepreneurs.
