Minister of Economy says that the strengthening of the presence of Huawei in Portugal is “very positive” – the Observer

This Wednesday the Huawei inaugurated in Lisbon the first center of innovation and experimentation, thus representing a strong investment in Portugal and will provide a greater proximity to innovation and to new technologies between the two countries (Portugal and China). At the inauguration were present the minister of Economy, Manuel Caldeira Cabral, considered it "very positive," strengthening the presence of the chinese company in Portugal.

I Think that Huawei is one of the major global companies and has made a commitment in Portugal, very large," said Manuel Caldeira Cabral, on the sidelines of the inauguration of Huawei Portugal Innovation & Experience Center, in Lisbon.

"we Saw today [Wednesday] the commitment" of the company "to bring about innovation in Portugal, and also commitment with the training of 5,000 college students that proposes to do in the coming years, strengthening the skills of the professional Portuguese, said the ruling, stressing that this shows "a big bet on improving the skills of workers in information technology," and "certainly in the interest of creating jobs in Portugal in this area". Therefore, "it is very positive to this new announcement of the reinforcement of the presence and strengthening of the partnership they have with our country," he said.

At the inauguration was still the Secretary of State for Industry, John Vasconcelos, and the Ambassador of China in Portugal, Falls Run, and still the executive director of Huawei Technologies, Guo Ping, which reinforced the view that the chinese brand has for Portugal to continue to innovate, and to invest in the country opening up to an ecosystem of partnerships that enable the digital transformation.

Huawei is one of the first chinese brands to invest in Portugal and with the research centre will open up more places of work in addition to the 100 already guaranteed. The embaxador of China in Portugal has said that the innovation centre "will further promote the exchange and communication of the two countries [Australia and China] in the areas of communication".

The minister of Economy recalled that on the visit to China, the prime minister, António Costa, visited the company."We invited Huawei to our project industry 4.0 and made a contribution very interesting," he continued, pointing to the partnerships between the technological and the chinese-EN and the companies manufacturing smart meters.

We are talking about a market of millions of products," Huawei "you can put these products of the partnerships that you create with Portuguese companies around the world, creating more activity, more employment in Portugal," he said.

Some of the points in which the new center of Huawei thinks to start investing in are: the future connections 5G, services that operate on the basis of the cloud, the Internet of Things, virtual reality and artificial intelligence, among other technological innovations which, as a rule, take more time to get to Portugal. With the approach and the investment of the chinese brand name Portugal you can start to receive, more quickly, some of the future technological innovations.