 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome. This is now the beginning of the Huawei Young Talents program launch ceremony. I am Claire Lenz, Director of Communications and Development at IHES, and on behalf of the Institute, I thank you for attending the ceremony. The format chosen for this online event is that of the webinar, meaning that for all of you attending, you can only see the panelists, but not the rest of the audience. And you cannot speak directly during the ceremony. That being said, feel free to post comments at any moment using the chat button down your screen. And you can ask questions using the Q&A button. And we will try to address those questions as we go. In particular, you will be able to use this Q&A button for the scientific talks if needed. Without further ado, we will now start the ceremony with Mr. Marwan Laoud, Chairman of IHES. Thank you very much, Claire. Mr. Zhou Xiang, Vice President, Executive of Huawei European Research Institute. Mr. Wei Liang Xu, CEO of Huawei Technologies France. Mr. Cheng Bai, President of Paris Research Center. Mr. Yu Ming Su, Minister Counselor of the Scientific Department of the Chinese Embassy in France. Mr. Jutang Roo, Second Secretary at the Chinese Embassy in France. Mr. Xavier Asfeld, Science and Technology Attaché at the French Consulate, who are all watching this event today. Ladies and gentlemen, dear colleagues and friends, it's a pleasure for me to introduce a ceremony that marks the kickoff of the Huawei Young Talents Program at the Institute. Even though, as you may imagine, I would of course have preferred to welcome us all at the Institute. At the time when the global pandemic has brought much uncertainty and made it more challenging to plan ahead, Huawei's generous support to IHES is ever more precious as it allows the Institute to take the long view and make plans to sustain a thriving scientific activity. Indeed, the Institute's model relies on the support of private and institutional partners following the vision of its founder, Leon Mochan, who was himself a businessman. Let me take a moment to tell you more about the Institute's very unique model and the vision of research that it carries. IHES was created in 1958, 1958, and it rapidly moved to Bure-sur-Hivette, now at the heart of the Paris-Saclay University, of which the Institute is a founding member. IHES offers exceptional scientists a place where they can devote entirely to research without any obligation of teaching or administrative tasks. The scientific activity of IHES revolves around a very limited number of permanent professors recruited for their exceptional skills and talents. And those are not just words. Out of 11 permanent professors in mathematics since the creation of IHES, seven have been awarded the Fields Medal. Those professors attract some of the very best international scientists to the Institute. Every year, about 200 invited professors, guests from across the world, benefit from our visiting program. This year, the number of visiting researchers has decreased due to the sanitary crisis. But fortunately, the collaborations and partnerships that the Institute has with the scientific community worldwide are very strong and stay active despite the limited physical interactions. The scientific activity at IHES also consists of regular conferences, seminars, workshops, and a yearly summer school. Those events have also been strongly impacted by the pandemic. But the researchers are testing new forms to present and discuss their work. The summer school, for example, was held entirely online, which allowed the number of people enrolled to be multiplied by almost a factor four. Clearly, the relationships between participants during those digital events cannot compare to those built on site through informal conversations when sharing a coffee or discovering Paris together. But at least they allow the scientists to stay involved with their community and cultivate their network. Indeed, the Institute's unique model relies on its excellent scientists, but also on its exceptional environment, both at the local and global scale. IHES is at the heart of a scientific hub with top-level institutions close by. I mentioned it earlier. The Institute is a founding member of Paris-Saclet University, officially created in January 2020. And most of you have probably seen that it made its appearance in Shanghai Xiaotong Academic Ranking of World Universities for the first time this year with impressive results. It is ranked four teens globally for all disciplines. And it is number one worldwide in mathematics. The Institute is very proud of this achievement to which it has contributed. Above all, this ranking attests of the important international recognition of IHES and its surrounding scientific community. This is actually at the heart of the Institute's identity. IHES scope has always been international. As every day, the Institute brings together scientists from across the world as part of its mission. Internationality also characterizes IHES financial model. The founder of the Institute solicited the support of individuals and companies abroad as well as in France. About 30 years ago, the then director of the Institute, Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, who's with us today, who is probably watching, had the visionary intuition to diversify the sources of funding, even more by developing a fundraising model that relies more and more on philanthropy. It's also Jean-Pierre Bourguignon who's transcended the connections between IHES and Asia and more particularly China. Thanks to his networking efforts, the Institute enlarged its international reach and benefited from the contacts that allowed the initial connections with Huawei. I will now let Emmanuel tell you more. Sorry, he will tell you later more about the history of the relationship between Huawei and IHES. In the meantime, we are lucky to have with us one of the key representatives of Huawei to whom I would like to extend my gratitude for their support for our model. And it is my pleasure to introduce Mr. Zeychang Xiang, Vice President, Executive of Huawei European Research Institute. Good morning. I'm Mr. Maui Lai-Hung and Mr. Emmanuel Ulmer and Mr. Xavier Asif and Mr. Sun Yumin, Mr. Ru Zitao and all the guests who attended the conference online. Good morning, everyone. It is a great honor to attend the launch ceremony of the IHES Huawei Young Talent program today. First of all, on behalf of Huawei European Research Institute, I would like to express my warm congratulations to both parties on our cooperation as scheduled. Fundamental research is a large part of the ICT industry guiding the direction of the scientific on the technological progress on the providing theoretical fundamental foundations. In 1948, Dr. Shannon put forward the famous Shannon Norr in the book Mathematical Principles for the Communication. Shannon Norr has become the basic theory of modern information theory and has been widely used in the field of communication and data storage. And has laid a solid theoretical foundation for the development of the communication today. 70 years later, the development of the communication industry still depends on classical mathematical theories. As Shannon Norr approaches the limit, what is the basic theory of post-Sharon area is waiting to be exploited? This theory may lead us to technical innovation in the next 50 years or more and take him civilization to a new height. Huawei is dedicated to technical innovation in the ICT field and willing to bring digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected intelligent world. Basic or scientific research is a large house for ICT development. Therefore, Huawei attaches great importance to basic or scientific research, especially investment in basic mathematical. We have set up a mathematical research institute in Russia and France with the aim of strengthening basic research, especially the research on mathematical algorithm. In August of the line 2020, Huawei launched the Lagrange Mathematical Computing Research Center in Paris. The aim is to cooperate with France's mathematical professors and experts to provide an open platform to explore new theoretical breakthroughs in the computing field. France has a long history of mathematicians and the generations of mathematicians and the physicists have emerged that have influenced the progress of human civilization. In the contemporary area, a number of outstanding young people will imagine France to make a far-reaching contribution. We hope to support this talent through the IHS, Huawei Young Talent Program. Let them have a better environment to focus on research under development of their talent. Huawei has long-term cooperation with IHS. In the past, IHS academic spirit has impressed us. As a member of the University of Paris, IHS has been dedicated to basic mathematical and physical research for a long time and has made an important contribution to the scientific progress of mankind. It has attracted the scholars for over 60 countries under the category of the many major field winners. We are deeply impressed by the long-term dedication and the achievement of the IHS in the field of basic science. At this moment, the IHS, Huawei Young Talent Program is launched. I hope that the cooperation between the two parties can be further dependent. We are willing to share our insights on the forecast, on the future of the ICT field with the academic, and we are also willing to listen to the new ideas from those young talent. I hope that young researchers can develop themselves to the research in the world's most outstanding mathematical research towards the IHS. Under Light and Lighthouse for the future of scientific on the technical development of the mankind. Finally, I would like to appreciate the directors of the IHS and the directors of the Paris Secondary for your strong support for our cooperation. I hope that COVID pandemic will be over as soon as possible. I'm looking forward to having face-to-face communication with all of you. Thank you. Thank you everyone. So thanks a lot for your very nice words. Mr. Shizang Chang, Vice President of Executive of Huawei European Research Institute. Mr. Wei Liangxi, CEO of Huawei Technologies France. Mr. Sheng Bai, President of Paris Research Center. Mr. Yu Minxu, Minister Counselor of the Scientific Department of the Chinese Embassy in France. Mr. Sitao Roo, Second Secretary at the Chinese Embassy in France. Mr. Xavier Hasvedel, Science and Technology Attaché at the France Consulate. Ladies and gentlemen, dear colleagues and friends. It's a real pleasure to hold this ceremony. Although I would have obviously preferred to see you in person rather than do this online. That being said, this event is very important for us as we acknowledge today the renewed support given to the Institute by Huawei Technologies France. Our gratitude to Huawei is multifold. As you have believed in our research model and have transferred your support to IHES consistently over the years. Let me take the time to retrace the main steps that have been taken so far since the first gift by Huawei. This first gift was made in 2010 under the direction of François Contain. That first donation marked the creation of the Huawei Fund at IHES to finance our visiting program. The first tone of a very successful partnership was led. Already at the end of 2014, Huawei Technologies France turned from donor to major partner at IHES by making a generous gift of 1 million euros which incremented the Huawei Fund between 2014 and 2017. During that period of time, we at IHES had the chance to get to know the R&D team at Huawei on the occasion of our yearly workshops that I had the privilege and the pleasure to co-organize with Merwin Débar. I know that Merwin is probably watching this ceremony and I would like to salute and thank him. The four editions of the Huawei IHES workshop that took place between 2015 and 2018 were a great success and a wonderful occasion for both IHES researchers and Huawei R&D teams to exchange and discuss about topics in pure mathematics and possible applications in technologies. As we know so well at IHES, seminars as well as informal discussion can carry treasures. That's what happened when Laurent Lafogue accepted to present his work to Huawei Vision Forum in the summer of 2017. I will let Laurent tell you more about how his relationship with Huawei developed and led to another chance of collaboration between IHES and Huawei. First through a two-year project on toposis that just ended and then through the creation in 2019 of the Huawei share in algebraic geometry whose first order is Laurent Lafogue himself, thanks to a generous gift of one million. Huawei Technologies France has recently pledged another six million euros to support the Institute over 10 years. Part of this generous gift, more exactly one million euro, will extend the Huawei share in algebraic geometry. The remaining five million euro will finance the Huawei Young Talent program which aims to support the work of talented researchers in mathematics and theoretical physics at the beginning of their career. Every year, the Huawei Young Talent program will fund an average, on average seven post-doctoral fellowship that will be awarded by the Institute Scientific Council only on the basis of the scientific excellence. The fellows will collaborate with the Institute's permanent professors and work on topic of their interest. Five brilliant young researchers have already joined the Huawei Talent programs starting in September of this year. And I have now the pleasure to introduce them to you. They are Yading, a mathematician working on complex algebraic geometry and hot theory. Vasilisa Nikiforova, a theoretical physicist interested in classical gravity and cosmology. Se Zun, whose research is focused on higher titular theory. Katie Vox, who works on geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology. And Yue Wang, who is currently working on application of mathematics to developmental biology and applied stochastic processes. Three of them, namely Yue, Se and Vasilisa will give a glimpse of their work later on this morning. The Huawei Young Talents program also give IHS the possibility to create a prestigious five-year position reserved to a particularly gifted young researcher. Through this competitive post, the first of this kind at IHS, the Institute intends to reward exceptional talent and attract in France outstanding young researchers that might otherwise begin their careers elsewhere. Early stage researchers constitute an invaluable resource to IHS. Their dynamism and diverse research experience inject new life into the Institute's research activity. Through the Young Talent program at IHS, Huawei endorses once again IHS research model by standing on the side of free and disinterested research and taking part in the development of fundamental research in France. Furthermore, it is important to say that our partnership with Huawei has also been made stronger by regular interaction and conversations about our research model and the importance of independent science. We have thus been very happy to see the creation of a new Lagrange Center in downtown Paris and to attend to its inaugurations last month. We are very proud to have inspired some of its features, such as the space dedicated for tea and coffee break, an essential custom to encourage exchanges and informal conversation. Above all, the vision of this new center, as well as its mission, resonates very closely with that of our Institute and proves once again that we share some important values with Huawei. Those shared values and the mutual trust we have built over the past decade make for a very strong relationships between our two institutions. And indeed, the Institute's relationship with Huawei began 10 years ago and this new agreement announcing another 10 years of cooperation, at least. This confirms the durability and strength of our collaboration. We are looking forward to this new decade of partnership. We wish all the best to the new Lagrange Center and we would like to congratulate Mr. Sheng Bei as well as Mr. Xi Zhengxiang and Mr. Wei Lingxi for their strategic vision, their belief in long-term fundamental research and their coordination of such projects. We would also like to thank them for their renewed support as well as all those watching today whose role has been essential in this collaboration, including William Xu, Director of the Board, President of the Institute of Strategic Research and also François Quentin, Benjamin Kouloumer, Mehrouane Débat, Sheng Li, Jean-Claude Belfure and Wang Xu-Sheng, among others. It's a pleasure and an honor to now leave the floor to Mr. Wei Lingxi, CEO of Huawei Technologies, France. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Rumeau. Does everybody hear me? Thank you very much. Yes. Mr. Marwan Laou, Mr. Xavier Asper, Mr. Sheng, Mr. Rumeau, Mr. Rumeau, thank you very much. It's a great honor to attend this KTOC ceremony, meeting for the signature and partnership between ICS and Huawei Technologies in France. This year is not easy, I think. A lot of people say that there are two things that will reshape the world. One is the coronavirus and another one is the American election. But I think it will not stop our cooperation. And even it will accelerate the digitization. So I think at the meantime, that we have a very challenging situation in front of us. But at the meantime, at the meantime, that they give us the opportunity to held the meeting like this. Because I see from the screen that we come from everywhere, from Paris, from Shanghai, from Luxembourg, and many, many places. So I think this is the best proof evidence to show that the digitization is necessary. So on behalf of Huawei France, firstly, I would like to thank you all for this welcome. And congratulations everyone to put a successful event and help building a closer collaboration strategy. Continuous and strong investment in R&D is very important of Huawei's strategy. It's not dependent on the political issue. Every year, Huawei is committed to invest more than 10%. And the last year, it's arrived 15% of his sales revenue, not profit, but the sales revenue in R&D. That became the major model of Huawei to increase our advantage and innovation in front of the customers. Since 2014, Huawei has invested 200 million euros in R&D in the French, only country in the French. For example, in 2019, there were over 96,000 R&D employees and scientific accounting around almost 50% of the whole company workforce. Huawei has been operating in France since 2003. So this year is our 17 years. Up to now, we have more than 1,000 employees directly and 12,000 employees indirectly. And we have more than 300 supplier partners working in the Huawei ecosystem. So this is a very important part because our strategy in Europe and in France is not just do the business, but we won't put our footprint in the France market. That means put the French company in Huawei ecosystem. And this 300 supplier that every year, for example, 2019, we expense almost 1 billion US dollars to buy the French technology, French services in Huawei global market. So 2020 has presented many challenges, as I said at the beginning, both in our personal and professional lives, even though we faced a more complex external environment this year. So Huawei remains side to side with French organization for investing in new research. Our local R&D teams has grown continuous over the years and we just inaugurate the new R&D center. As Mr. Wu just said, in France, that shows another evidence that we continue to invest our R&D strategy in France. Lagrange mathematical computing center with now 300 employees in the R&D in Huawei France, we have fully confidence in the future of French innovation and the open environment. Hovered by this country. We are willing to further create our R&D investment and further strengthen the implementation of our strategy in France. And for France. So Huawei France is driven by local needs and serves the interests of Korea, such as Orange, SFR, Buiga and FRIP, as well as the enterprise customer in the GAC count. We are also planning to build a 5G factory in France end to end. The reason we select France to build this 5G factory is because we want to also share the risk of our logistic provisionment because this is today important in front of the political issue. And we believe also a strong engineering power capability in France. Huawei hopes to attack the local talent, serve local customer and contribute to digitalizing France and Europe. Mathematica is the foundation of the ICT industry and provide a theoretical basis for research and innovation. Maybe you may not believe that the 5G technology people talk a lot is created also by the part of the contribution by our French R&D teams. So France is a world leader in the field and has many world-renowned scientific research institute and many world-class mathematicians. IHES has been committed to fundamental theoretical research in mathematics and physics for a long time and is the best representative of French research institute. Huawei has a long-term partnership with IHES sponsoring several IHES visiting scholars, jointly holding workshops and conducting fundamental theory exploration project with Professor Laurent Laforte through the Young Talent program with IHES. We hope to continue to build a long-term partnership with IHES and the French Academy supporting fundamental science research and innovation aiding in their effort to further contribute to the progress of nature science. Last but not least, I would like to extend my best wishes for this cooperation between our two organizations and I'm looking forward to the great and continuous contribution in a field of fundamental research in IHES. Thank you, thank you for your time. Thank you very much.