Chinese companies support all employees' purchase of Huawei products, while forcible boycott of Apple products also expand

by Isriya Paireepairit

Huawei vice chairman Ms. Meng Yongbo, a daughter of the founder of Huawei in China, was arrested in Vancouver, Canada in response to the request of the United States in 2018. Mr. Meng was bailed afterwards , but in China there is a movement to "promote Huawei struggled as a whole", and some Chinese enterprises support purchasing Huawei products, competing It is reported that there are places where activities such as boycotting Apple products to do are done.

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Many Chinese enterprises have publicly announced support system "publicly subsidize employees who purchase Huawei products" and as most companies give 10% to 20% subsidy of product purchase cost is. Some companies have said that they will bear the full purchase cost.

In addition, we have more than 20 companies announced on SNS as well as devices owned by individuals, "We will introduce Huawei products to company devices such as in-house business management systems." Companies that have announced support extend beyond telecommunications equipment companies to food companies.

In Shanghai's electronic equipment maker, we assume employees to bear the entire cost of two of the costs of purchasing Huawei products, Shenzhen display maker supplements 18% of Huawei or ZTE 's purchase price I am doing it. In addition, at the beer brewery in Henan Province , customers who brought the receipt of Huawei products deduct 30% from the purchase price of alcohol. It is a system that boosts Huawei just by country. These efforts are said to be guided by the Communist Party, and the Communist Youth League of China posted a social media article asking companies for subsidies to purchase Huawei products.

Also, while Huawei is competing with Apple for the second place in smartphone sharing, Chinese companies are reported to be boycotting Apple products as well as boosting Huawei products.

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Shenzhen machine manufacturer, also the home of Huawei, confiscated Apple devices from employees and announced that they would collect a fine if they failed to comply. Other companies may also set penalties for employees who purchase Apple products, imposing a penalty equal to the unit price to employees who purchased iPhones, including whether they are using Apple products for bonus assessment Forcible Apple products such as boycott is promoted.

The activity of boycotting products from other countries in China is not uncommon and has been done frequently in the past. For example, in 2012, when Japanese shops that had a bad relationship with the Senkaku Islands problem were attacked, and products of Lotte and Hyundai were boycottted when the US missile defense system was introduced to Korea in 2017 There was.