“China wants to build world-class companies. Can it succeed?” Read this article from the Economist.com:
“The floor of the darkened room is strewn with mattresses and scattered shoes. Sleeping bodies stir under duvets. Nearby, others nap at their desks, heads on arms. It is a Friday afternoon at the headquarters of Huawei”one of China’s most dynamic and ambitious companies and one of a handful, alongside Haier in white goods, Lenovo in personal computers, TCL in televisions and steelmaker Baosteel, whose names are starting to be heard around the world.
The scene is reminiscent of a place on the other side of the globe: Silicon Valley at its most breathless, when programmers on the go “24/7″ collapsed with exhaustion at their workstations. Huawei’s astonishing campus on the outskirts of the southern city of Shenzhen is straight out of the technology bubble too, with four football fields, swimming pools, apartments for 3,000 families and a fantastical Disney-esque research centre with doric pillars and marbled interior.”
