Huawei's 2018 Sustainability Report: 5G will be a green technology

Huawei released its 2018 Sustainability Report Friday detailing the Chinese tech giant's four strategies for sustainability: digital inclusion, security and trustworthiness, environmental protection, and a healthy and harmonious ecosystem. This is the 11th year in a row that Huawei released such a report.

The report comes after Tuesday's announcement by the U.S. Department of Commerce which allowed U.S. companies to sale products to Huawei.

5G will be a green technology

Whether 5G will be more energy consuming than 4G, Liang Hua, chairman of Huawei, explained during Friday's press conference that 5G will be more power-efficient than 4G. For example: one can download 300 films under 4G, but 5,000 under 5G using the same amount of power.

Huawei has made many innovations in the course of its 5G research, product development, and engineering, saidLiang. The company has managed to reduce the power consumption per 5G site to 20 percent less than the industry average.

This was made possible with the new Huawei chipsets, system software, professional services, and advanced hardware and heat dissipation technologies.

Huawei's four strategies for sustainability:

Digital inclusion

Huawei launched its global digital inclusion initiative TECH4ALL to address mobile broadband service unreliability and lack of connectivity.

Sixty-six percent of the world's households remain unconnected, and nearly four billion people have no Internet access worldwide, according to Global System for Mobile Communications (GSMA), a mobile network operator associtation. On top of that, more than two billion people around the world lack reliable mobile broadband service.

Security and trustworthiness

The company will be investing two billion U.S.dollars within the next five years to enhance its software engineering capabilities to better respond to the cyber security and privacy challenges that are affecting the industry.

Environmental protection

In 2018, Huawei used about 932 million kWh of electricity from clean energy sources, representing an emissions reduction of about 450,000 tons. This reflects Huawei's committement to minimizing its environmental impact during its production and operations, and throughout its product and service lifecycles.

Healthy and harmonious ecosystem

Huawei organized 177 local community support programs worldwide last year while working with customers, employees, communities and industry partners.

(CGTN)