Nie Hua

Nie Hua is a professor-level senior engineer and the chairman and president of Suma Information Industry (Cancon). He began in research at the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and moved into industry when the institute was restructured, spending years on the development and commercialisation of the Dawning supercomputers and servers. After Cancon was founded in 2017 he led the building of the CAS secure and controllable IT industrialisation base in Kunshan, Jiangsu, including China's first intelligent high-end server production line that links chip development, system manufacturing and cloud services, and helped establish the Kunshan supercomputing centre. In 2025 he shared the CCF Wang Xuan Award for strengthening the domestic server supply chain; the company's annual system capacity is approaching one million units.