Established in 1988, Huawei Technologies is a high-tech enterprise which specializes in research and development (R&D), production and marketing of communications equipment, providing customized network solutions for telecom carriers in optical, fixed, mobile and data communications networks. Huawei's customers include China Telecom, China Mobile, China Netcom, China Unicom as well as Thai AIS, Telefonica, SingTel, Hutchison Telecom, PCCW HKT, SUNDAY, Etisalat (UAE), Telemar (Brazil), Rostelecom (Russia), etc. Huawei's contracted sales in 2003 reached 3.83 billion USD, an increase of 42% year on year.

Huawei's products can be divided into the following categories: fixed network, mobile network, data communications, optical network, software & services and mobile terminals --- ranging from switching, integrated access network, NGN, xDSL, optical transport, intelligent network, support network, GSM, GPRS, W-CDMA, cdma2000 1x, full series of routers and LAN switches, videoconferencing to other key telecom technology fields. Most important of all, Huawei products are based on its independently designed ASIC chips. Its ASIC designing capability is among the most advanced in this field worldwide. This allows Huawei to consider the needs of its customers from start to finish, from the chip to the network.

This experience is invaluable as Huawei expands its penetration into the international market, with its international revenues saw strong growth of 90%, reaching US$1.05 billion in 2003 compared with US$552 million in 2002.

In order to support its global operations Huawei has set up 32 branch offices worldwide. Eight regional headquarters and a host of customer support and training centres have been established. Several research institutes including Dallas (USA), Bangalore (India), Stockholm (Sweden), Moscow (Russia), Beijing and Shanghai have been set up. Huawei's products are in deployed in over 40 countries, including Germany, France, UK, Spain, Russia, Brazil, Thailand, Singapore and Egypt.

Among Huawei's 22,000 employees, 46% are engaged in R&D. Each year, Huawei invests no less than 10% of its sales revenue into R&D. To ensure a steady and sustainable growth and to sharpen the core competitive edge, Huawei emphasizes the importance to partner with leading global players in the industry on both product development and marketing. Huawei has been cooperating with Texas Instruments, Motorola, Microsoft, Intel, Sun Microsystems and others.

Since 1997, Towers Perrin, Hay Group, PwC and FhG have been acting as Huawei's consultants on employee stock option plan, human resource management, financial management and quality control.