China's telecom giant Huawei would help Bulgaria to become a leader in IT services in the European Union (EU), said Guo Ping, the company's rotating and acting CEO .
''Next year, Bulgaria will take over the Presidency of the Council of the EU, and furthermore, the country has been selected as one of the two pilot countries for the EU's e-government initiative'', Guo said at the opening ceremony of a national summit on cloud computing.
"In this context, our mission is to ensure that Bulgaria will become a leader of the EU in this area," Guo said.
Emil Karanikolov, Bulgaria's Minister of Economy, said in turn that information and communication technologies and outsourcing have been among the leading sectors for attracting investments in the country.
Since 2013, investment projects worth over US 1.049 billion have been implemented in these areas, and over 7,400 jobs have been created, Karanikolov said. The presence in Bulgaria of such a global company like Huawei, spoke well for the country's policies, he added.
Huawei Technologies has been present in Bulgaria since 2004, and has been a major supplier for the telecom market in the country.