US-sanctioned Huawei sharpens focus in home market through new strategic cooperation pacts with local governments, boosting firm’s push into traditional industries

Chinese telecommunications equipment giant Huawei Technologies Co, which continues to struggle under US trade sanctions, has secured a series of broad cooperation pacts with local governments in its home market, boosting the company’s push into traditional industries.

Shenzhen-based Huawei on Tuesday signed a “strategic cooperation framework agreement” with the municipal government of Tianjin, a northern metropolis near Beijing, where the company pledged to support the coastal city’s smart ports, computing resources and telecoms infrastructure, according to a report by the Tianjin Daily.

Huawei will employ 5G, artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing technologies to help Tianjin’s digital transformation, company chairman Howard Liang Hua said.

That deal was signed on the same day that Huawei forged an agreement that deepens its 2017 partnership with the Baiyun district of Guangzhou, capital of southern Guangdong province, where the company is building a research and development complex that consists of eight buildings.