The expansion of production and logistics services will make Hungary Huawei‘s second-biggest supply centre and one of its most important foreign investments, said Gavin Dai. Outside China, Huawei operates such a supply center only in Brazil, he added.

Huawei established its Europe Supply Center (ESC) in Hungary as an experiment in 2009, and now the 20-month test period has been successfully completed. Last year, the centre exported $600 million of product and this is expected to double in 2011.

The strategic step will “create a large number of jobs in Hungary”, said Gavin Dai.