Huawei Ox Horn Campus

Huawei Ox Horn Campus 华为牛角园区
Alternative names	Huawei Xiliu Beipo Village 华为溪流背坡村
General information
Location	Songshan Lake, Dongguan, Guangdong, China
Coordinates	22°53′17″N113°53′17″E / 22.888°N 113.888°E / 22.888; 113.888
Opening	April, 2019 [1]
Cost	$1.5 billion [1]
Owner	Huawei
Dimensions
Other dimensions	25,000 people

Huawei Ox Horn Campus is a European-themed model village constructed on the south shore of Songshan Lake, in Dongguan, Guangdong province, China. It was constructed in the late-2010s to house the research and development offices of technology company Huawei.

There are twelve groups of buildings, based on European cities or regions, including Heidelberg Castle, ^[2] and Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, plus one-to-one copies of the buildings of Bruges, Český Krumlov, Verona, Bologna, Budapest, Tallinn, and Granada. ^[3] The zones are connected together using a tram system modelled on trains supplied by Stadler Rail for the Jungfrau Railway in Switzerland. ^{[1] [4]}

The Battle of Songshan Lake

After cooperation with Google became restricted, in October 2019, Huawei assembled over 2,000 engineers from around the world at this campus to jointly develop HMS as an alternative to Google Mobile Services. Due to the campus being located in Songshan Lake, this effort was called the Battle of Songshan Lake (Chinese :松湖会战; pinyin :Sōnghú Huìzhàn). ^{[5] [6]} Fang Xingdong commented that this "large-scale investment did not achieve the expected commercial returns and could even be considered a failure," but it laid the foundation for the rise of HarmonyOS. ^[7]

References

1. "华为："执牛角"而战". Tencent News. 18 June 2019. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
2. "Huaweis Ox Horn Campus". Der Spiegel (in German). 10 May 2019. Huaweis Campus: Das Heidelberger Schloss in China
3. Gartenberg, Chaim (15 January 2019). "Huawei is now cloning Europe". The Verge. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
4. "Huawei bringt ein bisschen Jungfraujoch in den Süden Chinas". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). 23 January 2019. Er regte an, die Züge im Stil der Jungfraubahn bauen zu lassen. Allerdings waren die Verhandlungen zwischen Huawei und Stadler Rail erfolglos.
5. 揭秘华为"松湖会战"：数千工程师集结，浇灌鸿蒙生态 [Revealing Huawei's "Battle of Songshan Lake": Thousands of engineers assembled to nurture HarmonyOS ecosystem]. Yicai . Retrieved 24 June 2025.
6. Ni Yuqing (1 July 2021). 华为再定位：软硬件巨头的进化之路 [Huawei's repositioning: The evolution path of a hardware and software giant]. 21st Century Business Herald . p. 11. Retrieved 24 June 2025.
7. 方兴东："三分天下有其一"，是鸿蒙上限？ [Fang Xingdong: "One-third of the world", is this HarmonyOS's ceiling?]. Guancha . Retrieved 24 June 2025.

Further reading

• Frayer, Kevin (21 May 2019). "Inside Huawei" (photo essay). Guardian. Retrieved 3 June 2019.