Lei Jun emphasized that Xiaomi Have had more than 16,000 Engineers, and a 100 Billion R&D Budget
In today’s ongoing Xiaomi 12 launch event, Lei Jun took the stage to take the lead, summarizing the past year of Xiaomi cell phones, as well as the future outlook.
Two years ago, Xiaomi released a five-year research and development plan: the next five years to invest 50 billion. Today, two years later, Xiaomi R & D has invested more than 22 billion yuan, engineers have more than 16,000 people.

Lei Jun said this is still far from enough, we have bigger dreams, rice fans also have higher expectations for us. At the same time officially announced the update of the R&D plan: the next five years R&D investment increased to 100 billion. He said Xiaomi firmly believes in technology-based, dead-on hard-core technology, to live up to the expectations of the Xiaomi fans. In addition, MIUI’s global active users now exceed 500 million, this conference will usher in a major version update MIUI 13.