A dazzling new photo series gives a rare glimpse inside Huawei’s surreal Shenzen campus

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• Chinese tech giant Huawei has become the focus of a geopolitical flashpoint in US-China relations.
• At a delicate time for the company, Getty photographer Kevin Frayer was given privileged access to its headquarters outside the Chinese city of Shenzen.
• He observed a sprawling campus, which spans 3.5 square miles and features buildings inspired by European landmarks.
• Home to 25,000 workers, Frayer found employees sleeping in their lunch breaks, taking art classes, and playing ping pong.
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Huawei is the second-biggest smartphone maker in the world, and is currently at the heart of a geopolitical fight between the US and China.

America last week threw oil on the fire by blacklisting Huawei, meaning tech companies including Google dramatically severed ties their Chinese counterpart.

Read more: Here are all the companies that have cut ties with Huawei, dealing the Chinese tech giant a crushing blow

As the firestorm around the company has grown, Huawei has opened itself up more to journalists, inviting a number inside its sprawling headquarters. Even the usually reclusive CEO Ren Zhengfei has courted the press in several interviews in recent months.

To this end, a new photo series from Getty photographer Kevin Frayer offers a glimpse inside the embattled firm’s surreal new campus outside of Shenzen, with buildings mimicking European landmarks, pull-out beds so employees can nap in their lunch-breaks, and black swans.

Scroll on for a look inside Huawei.

Huawei’s "Ox Horn" campus is located just outside the city of Shenzen, and houses 25,000 employees.

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The campus spans 3.5 square miles, and the architecture is inspired by European cities.

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Streets and boulevards connect the buildings.

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See Also:

• I tried Huawei’s MacBook Air competitor before the company was blacklisted in the US. Here’s what it was like to use.
• Here are all the companies that have cut ties with Huawei, dealing the Chinese tech giant a crushing blow
• Huawei’s CEO says he admires Apple and buys his family iPhones when they are not in China

Source: Business Insider – feedback@businessinsider.com (Isobel Asher Hamilton)