A look inside Huawei, China’s tech giant

The Chinese company Huawei is one of the giants of the tech industry. It’s the world’s largest provider of telecommunications equipment, a leader in next-generation 5G technology, and last year it passed Apple to become the second-biggest smartphone seller in the world.

But to many, especially in the West, there’s still an air of mystery around it.

And in the United States, suspicion.

For years, Washington has been concerned that the Chinese government could use Huawei equipment to spy on other nations. The US government says Huawei could pose a threat to national security because it’s unable to say no to the Chinese government.

Huawei has pushed back against those allegations, saying it would refuse any Chinese government requests to gain access to the technology it sells to telecom operators. But last week, the Trump administration blacklisted the company, placing it on a list of foreign firms barred from receiving components from US exporters without a license.

In an effort to dispel some of the mystery surrounding it, Huawei has recently opened up its facilities to international media.

Kevin Frayer, a Getty Images photographer based in Beijing, traveled to southern China in April to visit three of Huawei’s campuses.

“My goal was to take people a step beyond the breaking news and Huawei headlines, to give them a sense of what the company looks like and to see who works there,” he said.

Pronunciation

giants / JIE-INTS

industry

world’s

world / WHIRL-LA-DUH

technology

pushed

firms

barred

components

exporters

photographer / FUH-TA-GRU-FUR

photograph / FOTO-GRAFF

photo

Original

Dear Sir/Madam:
I’m writing to share a TV Show named as”I don’t like the world. I just like you” which i watched recently.In china,there are different types of TV plays,such as war drama,family drama,idol drama……Obviously,it’s a idol drama.The leading man and the leading lady were classmates in high school .The boy was clever and hard to approach,the girl was cute and a liittle stupid on the contrary.They became deskmates in grade 2 and they falled in love with each other.But puppy love isn’t encouraged,at the same time,some misunderstandings happened between them,they even didn’t have chance to express their love for each other. Years later,they met again and got back together.The TV play is sweet and simple,which is good for me to kill my time.By the way,the TV show is a true story of the author.She is really lucky to meet the love of her life.
Thank you for your reading.Wish you good luck.
Yours Sincerely
Joy

Corrected

Dear Sir/Madam:

I’m writing to share a TV Show named “I don’t like the world. I just like you” which I watched recently.In China,there are different types of TV shows,such as war drama,family drama,idol drama……This show is an idol drama.The leading man and leading lady were classmates in high school .The boy was clever and hard to approach,the girl was cute and a liittle stupid on the contrary.They became deskmates in grade 2 and they fell in love with each other.But puppy love wasn’t encouraged,at the same time,some misunderstandings happened between them,they even didn’t have a chance to express their love for each other. Years later,they met again and got back together.The TV show is sweet and simple,which is good for me to kill my time.By the way,the TV show is a true story of the author.She is really lucky to have met the love of her life.
Thank you for reading.Wish you good luck.
Yours Sincerely,
Joy

Grammar

when I choose my professions / when I chose my profession

but I want to choose doctor at that time / but I wanted to choose to be a doctor at that time

Original

A good day should be a day off and I have no sigfniciant things to do, and I can hang out with my friends. A bad day, maybe bring me bad mood, maybe it will happen some bad things — like some problems in the work, or some conflict with a friend. Good days I think.

Corrected

A good day is when I have the day off and I have no significant things to do, and I can hang out with my friends. A bad day, however  is when I have a bad mood, maybe some bad things will happen  — like/for example some problems at work, or some conflicts with a friend.

Original

When I was in my high school I think it’s hard but when I think back think back my high school I think it’s really simple and happy. I had good teachers and good classmates in school, and I think I was happy everyday. My college is good in all, there will help me in my work and we can be friends after the work. my teachers and my family members think I was hard but I think I could control my study time – I can finish my work in a short time so I think it’s easy for me.

Corrected

When I was in my high school I thought it was hard but when I think back think back to my high school years I think it was really simple and happy. I had good teachers and good classmates in school, and I think I was happy everyday. My college was good overall/mostly, my college classmates would help me with my work and we could be friends after the work. my teachers and my family members thought I was hard working but I think I could just control my study time well – I could finish my work in a short time so I think it was easy for me.

Vocabulary

social circle – my close friends

e.g. I had a tight social circle in high school.

lose touch / lost touch – don’t talk anymore

e.g. I don’t like Instagram or Facebook, so I lost touch with all my friends. But I don’t care — you should make new friends anyway!

translator / 翻译

e.g. Maybe if Joy didn’t become a nurse, she would have become a translator at the United Nations.