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Huawei

Acquired

CHAPTER

The Import Business

The company started out importing telephone switches from kong and reselling them in china. But ren's ambitions are to build a big company, so he starts building an engineering group that grows to about 600 people over the first couple of years. In 19 96, they begin selling this switch that they've developed to other telephone carriers in other countries outside of china. From there, they go to russia and africa. And pretty quickly, they become the largest c d equipment provider in Africa.

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