Data: Chinese research partnerships with UK universities

The Telegraph covered our new research, finding twenty leading UK universities have collectively accepted more than £40 million in funding from Huawei and selected state-owned Chinese companies in recent years.

Imperial College London accepted between £3.5 million and £14.5 million during this period from Huawei, the Chinese telecoms giant that has been banned from participating in Britain’s 5G network from 2027 amid security concerns.

In addition, the university has received at least £10 million from Sinopec, China’s state-controlled petroleum and chemicals corporation, and at least £6.5 million from the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (Avic), a state-owned defence and aerospace conglomerate, since 2016.

Meanwhile, Huawei has given £1.1 million to Lancaster University for research on subjects including semiconductors, computing and machine learning since 2015, and £890,000 to York University for undisclosed research projects.

The institutions made the disclosures in response to freedom of information (FOI) requests submitted by the CRG.

Read the full breakdown of funding here.