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Huawei wins top prize at the King Khalid awards

RIYADH, November 14, 2018

Huawei, a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices, has won the first prize of the prestigious King Khalid Responsible Competitiveness Award. 
 
The award was presented at the annual award gala which took place on November 12 at the Al Faisaliah Hotel in Riyadh. 
 
Huawei was honoured for its excellent sustainability practices and responsible competitiveness leadership, as well as its exceptional management capabilities and innovative social and environmental initiatives. 
 
Launched in 2008, the King Khalid Responsible Competitiveness Award is the first and only award focused on responsible competitiveness and corporate responsibility in Saudi Arabia, and Huawei is the first ICT company to win first place in the award’s history. 
 
As digital transformation sweeps across the globe, ICT technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), 5G, Cloud and more will unlock new values of growth and innovation and uplift societies and organizations to great heights of prosperity. In this context, the King Khalid Responsible Competitiveness Award recognised Huawei for its transformative impact in driving forward the kingdom’s ICT sector as a whole in line with the government’s digitization goals, National Transformation Program and Vision 2030, Huawei said.
 
In particular, Huawei was honoured for deploying its most advanced technologies, high quality product and secured networks in the kingdom, empowering local partners, taking the ICT talent pool to the next stage of creativity and innovation, and building the ICT ecosystem to achieve the digital kingdom economy targets.
 
Accepting the award, Charles Yang, president of Huawei Middle East, stated: “We are deeply humbled to receive such recognition from Saudi Arabia’s leadership. In the kingdom, Huawei is determined to bring digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world. The improvement is endless on the road to providing customers with high-quality products and services. Today's award is a milestone for us to continue to surpass ourselves. We will continue to play an active role in driving Saudi Arabia’s ICT sector development and grow together with our local partners, openly collaborating to build an even deeper pool of ICT talent empowered to enable the industry digital transformation.”
 
Huawei established its subsidiary in the kingdom in 2002. In the past 17 years, under the core values of customer-centricity, Huawei has maintained the quality goal of "becoming a high-quality synonym for ICT industry" and continues to bring innovative information and communication technology (ICT) solutions and products to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, actively promote the development of the Saudi ICT industry and the national digital transformation, develop Saudi ICT talents, and support the goals  of Saudi National Transformation Plan 2020 and 2030 vision. – TradeArabia News Service 
 



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