The new Huawei Health Lab in Songshan Lake in Dongguan, China is the third and largest so far and was officially unveiled on 22 October, 2021, during the first day of the Huawei Developer Conference. I was invited to visit (virtually) the facility as part of the showcase to select media from APAC.
In its efforts to lead the industry with continuous technological innovation, Huawei opened its first Health Lab in Shenzhen in 2016.
The 700 sqm facility focussed on research on testing and technology of sports and health products.

Huawei Health Labs help the company lead the industry with continuous technological innovation. * Click to enlarge.
The next Health Lab was built in Xi’an in 2020.
The bigger 1,100 sqm facility explored the innovation and application of sports and health technologies, to help more people to work out scientifically and live a healthy life.
The latest Health Lab in Songshan Lake, Dongguan, is by far the largest – at 4,380 sqm.
Editor’s Conclusion
Overall, the virtual visit to the sprawling Health Lab in Songshan left APAC media impressed with its comprehensive infrastructure, dynamic innovations into sports and health research, and ambitious potential to grow into medical applications should the detecting technologies eventually make it possible.
The goal was to build an international first-class scientific and technological innovation platform for the sports and health industry centering on research, standards R&D, testing and certification, and industry incubation of sports and health products.
Huawei’s ¥200 million (SGD 42.5 million) R&D investment will support more than 80 types of simulation tests
The visit was hosted by Christine Jiang, Vice President of Solution, Smart Wearable and Health Product Line, Huawei Consumer Business Group.
Jiang shared the overall strategy behind the health labs during the virtual tour.

The visit was hosted by Christine Jiang, Vice President of Solution, Smart Wearable and Health Product Line, Huawei Consumer Business Group. She shared with us her vision and strategy for Huawei health and wearables.
She explained that the mission of the health lab was to foster technological innovations for scientific workout and active health management.
In terms of positioning, the labs will gather professional resources to build an industry-leading center of professional competence for smart wearables and sports & health.
- Build a solid theoretical foundation and differentiated solutions in the sports and health field with professional institutions/experts and hobbyist groups as the core and innovative scientific professional perspectives.
- Aim at professional design and verification capabilities of sports & health solutions, introduce industry-leading verification theories and methods, and quickly build a complete verification model.
- Continuously build and promote core competitiveness in the sports and health field based on the sports and health laboratory.
Major responsibilities are built around DESO as elaborated below.
- Design
- Professional design of sports and health products
- Evaluate
- Sports and health product evaluation center
- Standard
- Development of sports industry standards
- OpenLab
- Cooperation with external authorities and open display experience
Over the past few years, the health labs have enabled the development of leading detection technologies that drove new developments in health and fitness, eg. ECG monitoring and skin temperature detection.
Lookout for Blood Pressure Detection as the next new thing that’ll feature in upcoming Huawei wearables.
Going by how much bigger each health lab is compared to before, they’re growing very quickly in this area!
Indeed. Sizewise, the growth is exponential. It’s certainly a big growth area for the company.