Hikvision Compliance Chief Warns Fragmented Regulation Strains Multinationals

In September 2026, Huang Fanghong, senior vice president and chief compliance officer of Hikvision, said in an interview that national regulatory rules are gradually moving from globalization toward deglobalization, and that host-country compliance requirements are showing a trend of dispersion and fragmentation. She said corporate compliance involves how to integrate external rules into a company's own processes.

Hikvision was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Starting from video technology, the company gradually expanded into fields including video surveillance, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things, providing security and scenario digitalization products to many industries.

Huang Fanghong joined Hikvision in 2009 and previously served as director of the legal department, the internal audit department and the internal control department. In 2018 she became a senior vice general manager of Hikvision. In the same year, Hikvision established a global compliance department to coordinate the differentiated development of laws and rules across different jurisdictions.