Whenever the topic of a tech brand’s campus visit comes to mind, especially if it’s in China, one would expect rows and rows of large uniform buildings or factories.
This is not the case with Huawei’s headquarters in Shenzhen and Dongguan, particularly the Huawei Ox Horn Campus (also known as Huawei Xiliu Beipo Village). Huawei founder, Ren Zhengfei, is very fond of European architecture so when plans to build a campus to house all employees involved in Research & Development, all the structures were inspired or copied from European buildings.
Once completed, the campus spanned a total of 30 hectares with 12 different villages named after cities or regions in Europe such as the Heidelberg Castle. Other villages are copies of buildings from of Český Krumlov, Verona, Bologna, Budapest, Tallinn, and Granada. They are all connected by a tram system modeled after Switzerland’s railway system.
The Ox Horn Campus is home to 25,000 Huawei employees (global headcount is over 200,000). They have a whole building here dedicated to a library of over 110,000 books, a separate museum, along with dozens of R&D centers, some of which are so secret not everyone knows about it or has access to it.
This brings up an interesting characteristic of the P60 Pro phone camera lens. Not only does it have a macro lens, but it also has a strong zoom that you never expect in a phone.