Three weddings, an arrest and a socialite: this is the multi-billionaire dynasty behind telecommunications company Huawei

The eyes of the world are already a few weeks focusing on the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei. Since 1 december, it is the financial director (CFO) Meng Wanzhou (46) in the cell because they are the U.s. sanctions against Iran breached would have and that leads to serious tensions between the US and China. It also drew attention to the wealthy family behind Huawei, for Wanzhou is also one of the three children of the founder of the company, CEO and billionaire Ren Zhengfei (74). And the family is otherwise very low profile, suddenly, in the middle of the spotlight.

Huawei is a crown jewel of the Chinese economy. Ren Zhengfei has built it into the most successful technology company of the country. It is in smartphones-even bigger than Apple.

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And Ren Zhengfei, who may achieve entirely on their own account. He was in his own words born in a modest family in the poorest province of China, Guizhou province. “We had salt to cook and therefore we were, where we lived as rich to be considered”, he said once in an interview with British public broadcaster the BBC. the


He went to work as an engineer in the army, causing many to today's tyres suspicion between Huawei and the Chinese government. Himself denies that he ever was asked to spy. It was also the period that Ren is a first time married. With his wife, Meng Jun, he got two children: daughter, Meng Wanzhou, and son, Meng Ping, in the name of their mother took over. (read on below)