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it's this great pleasure that I'm introducing mr. Richard Youth the CEO of Huawei consumer business group thank you very much for spending the time with me today there's a great honor yeah hey I think I thank you so much sir every year we conduct a best of Android work and we've actually decided to award hallway as the OEM of the air because we feel it the performance of the company and the quality of products and the pace of innovation surpass that of any other manufacturer in the world so I just want to say congratulations thank you oh no I know let you know in the future you all know for Holly yet thank you I wonder talked with you today sir 2016 was well it was an immense fear for voix way can you talk about some of the growth of Huawei experienced in 2016 yeah you know in 2016 we continue to increase our business and our superman' our smartphone we increased from 108 meeting to 139 meaning in quantity deployment and our revenue increase the war 42% so you so an hour max here nowadays roughly two-digit roughly 10% max here in globally always do top three smartphones higher in world but we are quickly shipping gap reason number one and number two some very impressive numbers okay I mean 2016 was a very challenging year yeah look at what happened with Samsung or Motorola a lot of these companies really struggled to gain market share so I applaud you for that then Huawei a lot of people don't know this but you're the CEO hallway consumer business group well Huawei has a lot of legacy infrastructure business it is the largest ICT company in the world information communication technology now how much do you think that legacy engineering expertise how much do you think it benefits the consumer side of the business yeah you know I do video that's a feeling that's the the our infrastructure Denise either we benefits a lot from how you finish because you know that we happen worldwide er we build most of the mobile network weighs more and you know smartphone working with mobile network we know the network and we have more knowledge and know-how on mobile communication on telecommunication network so we can help our smartphone working with the Nano car with better performance fast speed I think music appears like that in the race towards 5g you know fifth generation networks are gonna be very very fast what do you think while we sits on the competitive landscape relative to ZTE and Siemens and other other area industry leaders that are you know you know around the five t-that's I actually we are the wow the leader in the world to on standardization although 5g technology innovation and we put a much more resource on the resource the holoband us so that's why what what on worldwide the 5g standardizing technology innovating and we had to figure the leader leadership role in worldwide 2016 you talked about some really big numbers double-digit growth right number one smart frontier in China number three globally yeah double-digit growth right expansion of the honor brand as well but what do you think is going to be different about 2017 compared with 2016 and I think that was on 17 you know you know the host mother industry is still continually consolidating hmm so I do video that's with some flying monomer Wanda really disappear yeah so the 2017 I think there will be more consolidation of the industry yeah yeah so many wonders we are quickly disappearing now how we are quickly going oh we're consolidating yeah we got something opposition I can see all trilogy cost an investment right and go to market share these are all very you know we we put a huge in resource and research and Europe now technology innovations yes and also we are building our brand of our brand Oliver and and we are investment on marketing branding retail channel retail investment and also after sales services it really seems to me that 2016 was a year of partnership in revoir we yeah you like and others and can you just talk about some of the partnerships and who's behind driving those initiatives to help grow the brand and create better products you know me and my team kind of you know this industry yes we need a parachute we cannot do everything by ourselves exactly so we should have finally the best partner for the univer industry from industry you know like like how a patent even like Abba Kaiser very famous on camera technologies we tell by this kind of pattern partnership we can bring the best camera appearance sound smart for consumers and I know that yeah that design absolutely and so by the partnership our party I we bring the best design our best smartphone to the industry yeah you have this has a beautiful it's almost like a piece of art okay remarkable you know that's and we are good at technology and strong performance we can ring and also together with the best design so together we can absolutely nothing that you know really I think the partners really is also very important for our angry and we want to do partnership with you the best partner to bring the best innovation together bring the synergy yes that's all about the synergy okay so I I know that you were big on partnerships mister you and so if you could just give us in our audience a little bit more information about a dream but Alexa and some of the other coming and the house was that you have okay you know this time that's the Howey the midnight we partner with Amazon to bring the the first Alexa services analyst flagship smartphone integrating in a midni smartphone with Alex our services you know AXA after you learn to do very good consumer feedback they love it yeah the open the API it uses a BB year to al-fatiha so we integrated that laksa in a smartphone we bring the best substitute to the US and global in the consumers and also you know we animate and I improve we also integrated the googoo deja vu we are the first or one of the first vendor in the industry to spot the Google the latest the date human services will bring the we are to the smartphone key flagship smartphone but what do you use the the next big breakthrough from mobile technology that's going to make a difference for consumers I think you know that today the eunice reason was hahahaha topic is a I am a are we are you know I think this kind of technologies and really really to help bring these kind of technologies of mobile phones and smart phone you make it was much more intelligent yeah so so that's why that we also have you also put huge resource research 2004 now this AI a are we are and I also know that the industry all the giant companies they are also putting so much money on this I do video with the new technology put inside we will dramatically changes people's life your coming next 5-10 years for the better yeah for the better yeah oh yeah yeah so just think asking you like a personal question mister you like what are um what are some tech leaders and tech companies that you look up to you that you admire in the industry you know the industry every company every could company have something somewhere I wish you admire mm-hmm I think that's so he says why we should learn from the industry the best acts but he's and then each other you know I like Google you know they have good Google mobile services and extra services and yeah accident services we should learn from and also you know that's like a poll they have oh well the last thought and ten years they build us strong mm-hmm ecosystem absolutely I think many many companies have some something that we should learn from Facebook with a very strong mmm genetically Buda that's true I think that's in this users changing so fast yeah but a more importantly you know that we should bring the best technology with the best service as the user experience to the consumers Oh Howie Annie we should learn from the industry the company the vendors and we also shouldn't think about the partnership to bring your working together to bring the best you unique Pierce to the consumers our customer it was I have ambition I have the human that we want to bring the best smartphone to the worldwide people you know how ambition and my mission is that salami we want to bring the best smart devices worldwide people with the best innovation best technology and best you use occurs so that's my ambition so I think that in from you to thunder 17 this year new year and will continue to put more and more resources on technology innovation autism and also we are improving how retail our channel sales you know read help to bring the best devices to your global consumers and also we guarantee that you bring the best services to the consumers wonderful well I think you're well on your path you know achieving what you want which is to hopefully become the number one smartphone manufacturer in the world you have the right attitude mister okay we have the right technology right thank you yes sir thank you very much for you time today thank you thank you I miss for you yeah because lucky grapes yeah okay 2017 reporting live okay she was on the 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