Shanghai (Reuters) – The founder of Huawei told Xi Jinping at a meeting that the Chinese president held with private-sector entrepreneurs, fearing China lacks local chips or operating systems, according to a Chinese state media report.
The People’s Daily published an article last Friday summarizing founders of large Chinese companies, including Huawei’s Ren Zhengfei, electric vehicle giants Byd’s Wang Chuanfu and Electronics Maker, and Electronics Maker The Automaker Xiaomi’s Lei Jun on Monday Xi Spook to Xi.
Public discussion meetings, six founders had time to speak on XI, while DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng and Alibaba’s Jack MA were both under high control. Previously, state media only made XI’s speech, not what the founder said.
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Ren told XI that China’s concerns about “lack of core and soul” have eased, and said: “I firmly believe that a larger China will rise faster,” the People’s Daily reported.
The term “lack of core and soul” dates back to 1999, when a former Chinese technology minister commented on the country’s information industry, “core” refers to semiconductors and “souls” and refers to operating systems.
Huawei has been one of the key forces in Xi Jinping’s goal, making the country more self-sufficient and overcoming the U.S. sanctions to enact its own advanced chips and operating systems.
During the meeting, Byd’s Wang talked about how the country’s electric vehicle industry started from scratch and “showed an impressive transcript”, while Xiaomi’s Lei told XI that even if the international situation changed, XI’s Leadership “nothing can be overcome”, the People’s Daily also said.
According to the People’s Daily, the other three entrepreneurs who spoke were from Chip company Will Semiconductor, human robot maker Unitree and China’s largest feed maker New Hope Group.
(Report by Brenda Goh; Edited by Jamie Freed)
