China's Huawei reports best revenue growth in 5 years

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China telecom Huawei H1 revenue up 30pct

Updated: 2:19 pm, Monday, 20 July 2015

Chinese telecoms equipment giant Huawei says its revenue has surged 30 per cent year-on-year in the first half, helped by 'solid' sales of smartphones and growth in other business areas.

Huawei said, in a statement on Monday, that sales reached 175.9 billion yuan ($A38.6 billion) on an unaudited basis in the January-June period.

'Huawei's mid-range and high-end smartphones... have made solid progress, helping us guarantee quality and sustainable growth in the consumer business,' Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou said.

Huawei would release figures for its smartphone business later this week, a company spokesman said.

International Data Corporation (IDC) says Apple was the top smartphone vendor in China during the first quarter this year with a 14.7 per cent market share, helped by sales of its bigger screen iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.

Chinese upstart and media darling Xiaomi followed with a 13.7 per cent market share and Huawei was third with 11.4 per cent, IDC said.

Last year, Huawei's group revenue rose 20.6 per cent from 2013 to 288.2 billion yuan, according to a previous statement. Net profit jumped 32.7 per cent year-on-year to 27.9 billion yuan for 2014.

Huawei is not listed on any stock exchange but it releases financial information in the interest of transparency.

-AFP

China telecom Huawei H1 revenue up 30pct

China's Huawei reports best revenue growth in 5 years

 

[TaiShang]

Huawei Launches Full Metallic 8-inch Audio-visual Tablet, the MediaPad M2

Stunningly designed and featuring innovative audio-visual technology, new tablet delivers a best-in-class music and entertainment experience on mobile

15 June, 2015

[Shenzhen, China, June 15, 2015] Huawei Consumer Business Group (BG) today launched its new MediaPad M2, a stunning full metallic 8-inch 4G LTE-enabled tablet. Featuring the Kirin 930 64-bit octa-core processor, a 4,800 mAh battery, and ultra-fast 4G LTE Cat4 connectivity, the MediaPad M2 is designed to create an immersive audio-visual (AV) entertainment experience for music and entertainment lovers.

A Stunning Design and Entertainment Lover’s Dream


Inspired by the themes of classical music, the new Huawei MediaPad M2 is at once stunning and mesmerizing with its sleek metallic texture, and two-section back cover patterned after a brass musical instrument. In total, the tablet is comprised of 99.5% metal, with non-metallic breadth accounting for only 1.2 mm.

Alongside its sleek, elegant look, the MediaPad M2 has been developed with the entertainment lover in mind. The tablet is powered by a robust 4,800 mAh battery supporting up to 13 hours of video play, and 650 hours of standby time in 4G mode. The tablet’s Kirin 930 64-bit octa-core processor also enables it to intelligently switch between different application usages to provide longer standby time for users. With its two-section design promoting peak signal strength, the MediaPad M2’s Wi-Fi function supports two frequency bands, including 2.4GHz and 5GHz, delivering download speeds of up to 443M for smooth downloading and streaming of music and videos.


Innovation in Mobile AV Technology

Intended to deliver the most superb AV experience on mobile, the MediaPad M2 comes equipped with both hardware and software advancements to deliver best-in-class sound quality. For instance, by housing its dual stereo speakers in a larger audio cavity, the MediaPad M2 features enhanced volume levels and deeper sound quality. Additionally, Huawei has teamed up with world famous audio maker Harman/Kardon to implement the Clari-Fi algorithm in the MediaPad 2 to ensure true quality, high fidelity compressed music and movie sound. The tablet also utilizes the next generation HIFI Codec Hi6402 to ensure a superb signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 114dB, and is equipped with a dual smart Power Amplifier (PA) chip and high-performance built-in DSP algorithm for richer volume and bass sound quality. Finally, the MediaPad M2’s Super Wide Sound 2.0 (SWS 2.0) technology offers a 180-degree surround sound effect, making the tablet a home theatre on-the-go.


To match its superb audio experience, the MediaPad M2 also delivers an immersive visual experience with its 8-inch, 1900x1200 IPS touchscreen display featuring 283 PPI. Also, with Huawei’s proprietary ClariVuTM display enhancement technology, the MediaPad M2 intelligently switches between sun view, color enhancement, and eye protection mode according to the environment enhancing both visual quality and protecting the eyes. The MediaPad 2’s ACM color module also provides excellent color enhancement for visual quality more vivid and closer to the natural color.


Availability and Accessories

Huawei MediaPad M2 will first be available in China, Western Europe and the South Pacific, with other countries and regions such as Russia, North and Eastern Europe and Japan to follow.

The MediaPad M2 will come with a magnetic smart cover which can also serve as a stand for convenient viewing. The leather cover features smart functionality that awakens the MediaPad 2 when the leather cover is opened, and turns the tablet to sleep mode when the cover is closed. The leather cover will be available in either amber gold or pearl white.

 

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The company will see a further surge in H2 revenue on account of recent sterling performances by a slew of new products such as the Honor 7.

China's Huawei ahead of schedule on 2015 smartphone shipment target of 100 million: memo

Mon Jul 20, 2015 3:16am EDT

By Yimou Lee

HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL], the world's fourth-biggest smartphone maker, is ahead of schedule on smartphone shipments and will meet its 2015 target of 100 million handsets before the end of the year, according to an internal memo reviewed by Reuters.

Shenzhen-based Huawei has recorded monthly global smartphone shipments of more than 10 million every month since May, the head of the company's consumer business, Richard Yu, wrote to staff in a memo sent on Monday.

Huawei shipped 75 million smartphones in 2014, below its original sales target of 80 million. Earlier on Monday Huawei reported a 30 percent increase in first-half 2015 revenue to 175.9 billion yuan ($28.3 billion) and said it would achieve "effective growth" in 2015.

The company had a 5.4 percent share of the global smartphone market in the first quarter of this year, a distant fourth behind Samsung Electronics, Apple Inc and Lenovo Group Ltd, according to research firm Gartner.

(Reporting By Yimou Lee; Editing by James Pomfret and Kenneth Maxwell)

China's Huawei ahead of schedule on 2015 smartphone shipment target of 100 million: memo| Technology| Reuters

 

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Huawei Consumer BG and Shanghai GM announce partnership to promote interconnected cars

Posted: 20 Jul 2015, 09:46

Huawei Consumer Business Group (BG) and Shanghai General Motors (GM) have announced their partnership to promote the development of interconnected cars.

Under the agreement, Huawei’s telematics solution, which is capable of providing intelligent services including 4G network connectivity, location based services (LBS), automatic phone tracking, automatic emergency assistance, remote control etc., will be pre-installed in some GM vehicles.

“Vehicles are becoming the next mobile smart device after smartphones. Huawei is focused on creating the network communication capacity that can realize the interconnection of all things,” said Richard Yu, Chief Executive Officer of Huawei’s Consumer Business Group.

“With our experience and insights in the area of smart devices and through collaboration with industry partners like Shanghai GM, we are aiming to create a rich and quality smart car experience for consumers,” added Yu.

Shanghai GM is one of China’s most influential joint venture brands and manufactures and sells Chevrolet, Buick, and Cadillac brand automobiles in mainland China. As of early 2015, total sales in China from across the three brands exceeded 10 million vehicles. The strategic partnership with Shanghai GM marks a further milestone for Huawei’s technology and represents the first wide-scale deployment of the company’s telematics solution in products from a top-tier joint-venture automotive brand.

An industry report by Telefonica remarks that 90% of cars will have Internet connectivity by 2020, implying that network connectivity will become a standard configuration for vehicles in the future. Huawei is committed to becoming a key player in promoting the development and growth of the telematics industry, leveraging its expertise and heritage in the field of mobile communications, and insights into and knowledge of smartphones and wearable devices.

 

[Bussard Ramjet]

I must say Huawei is perhaps THE Chinese company that I respect the most.

It is seriously awesome!

 

[Beidou2020]

Wonderful news.

Huawei is now a world leading tech company.

Chinese brands are now going global and becoming world class and taking marketshare from foreign brands.

Nothing can stop the rise of China.

 

[aks18]

huawei fones are getting very famous among people and most of the telecom companies are using setup of huawei in pakistan or ZTE

 

[cirr]

7/20/2015

Huawei Bears Open Source Gifts From China

A Huawei storage system (Source: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg)

Chinese technology giant Huawei has frequently been the subject of suspicion and sanction, particularly in the United States. But it’s also a company that produces key pieces of technology infrastructure, and an active contributor to various international open source initiatives. This week, at OSCON in Portland, Huawei announced the release of a new open source project, Astro. Astro tightly integrates the database capabilities of Apache HBase with the online query and analytics power of Apache Spark, potentially bringing Spark-powered data science a step closer to the huge structured data stores locked up inside many global enterprises.

Apache Spark is big news these days, with the open source project subsuming much of the hype previously directed towards Apache Hadoop. Behind the scenes, of course, Hadoop continues to be used and to be actively developed, but that doesn’t make for good headlines. So, Spark is the new big thing and don’t let the facts persuade you otherwise. Databricks, founded by members of the Berkeley team that originally created Spark, has attracted $47 million in venture capital funding to extend, grow and commercialize Spark. Others, including all the main Hadoop vendors, have also jumped on board. IBM made some noise last month, recognizing the importance of Spark to several of its ongoing initiatives.

Spark certainly has a lot to recommend it. It’s fast, it supports a number of popular development languages (Java, Scala, Python, R), and it includes easy access to a growing set of commonly used algorithms in data science. It is, to all intents and purposes, a great way to start playing around with data; whether that’s a few megabytes on your laptop or a petabyte or two in a cluster.

Spark’s accessibility also makes it a good option for integrating with other systems, with Spark managing the flow of data along a pipeline that may include data creation systems (sensors, logs, transactions, etc), data querying and reporting systems, and data storage repositories. And it’s here that the link to HBase becomes interesting.

Dr. Wang Chenglu, President of Huawei Central Software, commented,

Spark, as the most influential community among Apache projects and as preeminent framework of data processing and analytics, has been our focus and top priority. We believe that putting Spark as the core to our big data solution can bring significant benefits to our customers, keeping up with technology innovations driven by the ecosystem while maximizing their IT investments from the adoption of best practices and other customers’ success.

Patrick Wendell, Release Manager for the Apache Spark code and co-founder of Databricks, was quick to welcome Huawei involvement,

Huawei has supported Spark through a variety of contributions since the very early days of the project. Looking forward, we expect Huawei to continue both developing Spark and driving its adoption in global vertical markets.

Huawei is seeing some success with their FusionInsight product, which incorporates Apache Spark code. At China Unicom, one of the world’s biggest mobile carriers, Spark is used to reduce the time required to build and run models from months to weeks, significantly improving customer retention and reducing churn.

Others also recognize the value of bringing Spark closer to technologies like HBase. Hadoop vendor Cloudera began a project last year, which appears to have stalled. Hortonworks, another of the leading Hadoop vendors, made broadly comparable announcements last month, building upon earlier commitments.

The challenge, as elsewhere in an industry segment that sees overlapping products and narrowly focused startups launch with great regularity, will be to ensure that all of these alternative approaches are truly open to others. There is no real reason, ultimately, to have three (or four, or five, or more) different ways to combine Spark with HBase. The fundamentals of the connection should be done – right – once. Three (or four, or five, or more) products may then choose to leverage that capability in ways that deliver value to their customers.

Huawei is certainly not alone in putting open source projects like Spark and HBase at the heart of commercial products and professional services engagements. But it is nice to see a simple good-news story from a company too often (and not without some justification) caught up in the shady and frequently unpleasant world of global politics.

Now it’s down to the Spark and HBase communities. Adopt Astro (evolving code for which has been on GitHub for a while), one of the otherSpark/HBase solutions, or reinvent another wheel?

Huawei Bears Open Source Gifts From China - Forbes

 

[TaiShang]

7/20/2015

Huawei Bears Open Source Gifts From China

A Huawei storage system (Source: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg)

Chinese technology giant Huawei has frequently been the subject of suspicion and sanction, particularly in the United States. But it’s also a company that produces key pieces of technology infrastructure, and an active contributor to various international open source initiatives. This week, at OSCON in Portland, Huawei announced the release of a new open source project, Astro. Astro tightly integrates the database capabilities of Apache HBase with the online query and analytics power of Apache Spark, potentially bringing Spark-powered data science a step closer to the huge structured data stores locked up inside many global enterprises.

Apache Spark is big news these days, with the open source project subsuming much of the hype previously directed towards Apache Hadoop. Behind the scenes, of course, Hadoop continues to be used and to be actively developed, but that doesn’t make for good headlines. So, Spark is the new big thing and don’t let the facts persuade you otherwise. Databricks, founded by members of the Berkeley team that originally created Spark, has attracted $47 million in venture capital funding to extend, grow and commercialize Spark. Others, including all the main Hadoop vendors, have also jumped on board. IBM made some noise last month, recognizing the importance of Spark to several of its ongoing initiatives.

Spark certainly has a lot to recommend it. It’s fast, it supports a number of popular development languages (Java, Scala, Python, R), and it includes easy access to a growing set of commonly used algorithms in data science. It is, to all intents and purposes, a great way to start playing around with data; whether that’s a few megabytes on your laptop or a petabyte or two in a cluster.

Spark’s accessibility also makes it a good option for integrating with other systems, with Spark managing the flow of data along a pipeline that may include data creation systems (sensors, logs, transactions, etc), data querying and reporting systems, and data storage repositories. And it’s here that the link to HBase becomes interesting.

Dr. Wang Chenglu, President of Huawei Central Software, commented,

Spark, as the most influential community among Apache projects and as preeminent framework of data processing and analytics, has been our focus and top priority. We believe that putting Spark as the core to our big data solution can bring significant benefits to our customers, keeping up with technology innovations driven by the ecosystem while maximizing their IT investments from the adoption of best practices and other customers’ success.

Patrick Wendell, Release Manager for the Apache Spark code and co-founder of Databricks, was quick to welcome Huawei involvement,

Huawei has supported Spark through a variety of contributions since the very early days of the project. Looking forward, we expect Huawei to continue both developing Spark and driving its adoption in global vertical markets.

Huawei is seeing some success with their FusionInsight product, which incorporates Apache Spark code. At China Unicom, one of the world’s biggest mobile carriers, Spark is used to reduce the time required to build and run models from months to weeks, significantly improving customer retention and reducing churn.

Others also recognize the value of bringing Spark closer to technologies like HBase. Hadoop vendor Cloudera began a project last year, which appears to have stalled. Hortonworks, another of the leading Hadoop vendors, made broadly comparable announcements last month, building upon earlier commitments.

The challenge, as elsewhere in an industry segment that sees overlapping products and narrowly focused startups launch with great regularity, will be to ensure that all of these alternative approaches are truly open to others. There is no real reason, ultimately, to have three (or four, or five, or more) different ways to combine Spark with HBase. The fundamentals of the connection should be done – right – once. Three (or four, or five, or more) products may then choose to leverage that capability in ways that deliver value to their customers.

Huawei is certainly not alone in putting open source projects like Spark and HBase at the heart of commercial products and professional services engagements. But it is nice to see a simple good-news story from a company too often (and not without some justification) caught up in the shady and frequently unpleasant world of global politics.

Now it’s down to the Spark and HBase communities. Adopt Astro (evolving code for which has been on GitHub for a while), one of the otherSpark/HBase solutions, or reinvent another wheel?

Huawei Bears Open Source Gifts From China - Forbes

Surprisingly constructive article. One almost feels goose-bumps when reading this sort of articles.

Addicted too much to criticism, belittling, mockery, hatred and slander?

 

[Beidou2020]

Surprisingly constructive article. One almost feel goose-bumps when reading this sort of articles.

Addicted too much to criticism, belittling, mockery, hatred and slander?

Usually when the West starts loving China is when China is weak and doing poorly and not a challenge to the West.

 

[TaiShang]

Usually when the West starts loving China is when China is weak and doing poorly and not a challenge to the West.

Good that there is still a truckload of hatred and Xi is this, CCP is that, economy is doomed, Xinjiang is for some fairy Turks, Xiaomi is copy cat, Huawei is agent, PLA is weak, PLA is aggressive...



I think there is still hope for us.

 

[cirr]

Huawei boasts 30% growth in sales revenue

By: Tim Skinner | telecoms | Posted: 21 Jul 2015, 10:49

Chinese kit vendor Huawei has announced its first half 2015 sales results, laying claim to a growth in sales revenue of CNY 175.9billion ($28.32bn), an increase of 30% year-on-year.

Little in the way of tangible numbers were offered up by Huawei for its first half performance announcement, aside from the headline sales growth result, however the vendor’s CFO Meng Wanzhou pointed towards the three core areas of Huawei’s business and identified key reasons for growth in each of the enterprise, consumer and carrier businesses.

“In the first half of 2015, Huawei achieved stable and healthy growth in all of its three business segments,” she said. “In the enterprise business… we have started to experience accelerated growth. Thanks to the extensive application of our cloud computing, storage, agile network and other flagship products and solutions in the smart city, finance, education and ISP markets in and outside of China, our growth in the enterprise business began to pick up in the first half of this year.

“Huawei’s mid-range and high-end smartphones, Mate7 and P8 in particular as well as Honor-branded phones, have made solid progress, helping us guarantee quality and sustainable growth in the consumer business,” she said.

Huawei claims it has continued to strengthen its position in the telecoms sector with its carrier business, by focussing on the transformation of network architecture using SDN, NFV, cloud and emerging technologies aiming at advancing LTE and drive towards 5G.

“Investment continued to pour into 4G network construction in China,” said Meng. “In addition, the growth in global data traffic drives investment in network capacity expansion, while carriers’ digital transformation pushes up investment in the ICT industry. These factors helped us maintain steady growth in the carrier business.”

Firing on all barrels

 

[TaiShang]

Huawei revenue gets 'smart' boost
July 21, 2015

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd on Monday said its revenue during the first six months of the year rose 30 percent to 175.9 billion yuan ($28 billion), fueled by strong growth in its smartphone, enterprise and telecom equipment businesses.

Huawei products at an information industry expo in Nanjing, Jiangsu province. The company beat expectations in handsets shipments in the first half of the year amid intense competition with market leader Xiaomi Corp for the top slot in China. [Photo/China Daily]

The biggest communications equipment maker in China said its operating margin during the January-June period was 18 percent, compared with 18.3 percent during the same period a year ago. Privately held Huawei did not disclose the earnings for individual sectors.

Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei, said the company's smartphone sales made "solid progress" during the period under review.

"Huawei's mid-range and high-end smartphones, Mate7 and P8 in particular, helped us guarantee quality and sustainable growth in the consumer business," Meng said.

The Shenzhen, Guangdong-based company shipped nearly 50 million smartphones in the January-June period, according to Yu Chengdong, head of the consumer unit. Shipments during the first half of 2014 were 34 million, the company said. Huawei beat market expectations in handsets shipments amid intense competition with current market leader Xiaomi Corp for the top slot in China.

With Samsung Electronics Co losing its edge in the market and Apple Inc releasing just one or two high-end devices every year, being the top vendor means huge market share and phenomenal earnings in the high-end market.

Huawei controlled 5.4 percent of the domestic smartphone market as of the first quarter, lagging behind Samsung, Apple Inc and Lenovo Group Ltd, according to research firm Gartner Inc.

Huang Leping, a Shanghai-based analyst at Nomura Securities Co, said Huawei has witnessed impressive growth in its smartphone business this year. "It will release a number of new handsets later this year and they will boost shipments further," Huang said.

Huawei is planning to launch Ascend Mate 8, a next-generation phone in the 4,000-5,000 yuan price range in the coming months. The company will also produce a Nexus device for Google Inc later this year.

The Nexus series is a product family that is marketed by Google, the developer of the Android operating system.

Huawei is the only Chinese vendor that makes the Nexus products. Motorola Mobility had built Nexus devices prior to its acquisition by Lenovo last year.

Anshul Gupta, Gartner's research director who oversees global consumer electronics, said the growth of local firms will give companies such as Huawei and Xiaomi a bigger opportunity.

In the carrier business, the most profitable sector for Huawei, the company maintained "steady growth", because China is building its fourth-generation networks and global data traffic growth is boosting investment in network capacity expansion, Meng said.

Chinese telecom carriers are building the world's largest 4G networks across the country, giving local players such as Huawei, ZTE Corp and Datang Telecom Technology and Industry Group most of the orders to build base stations and other facilities.

Huawei has also started seeing accelerated growth in its enterprise business, boosted by increasing demand for cloud computing, storage and other products related to smart city, finance and education markets.

 

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Possible Huawei G8 Handset Gets Certified In China

Kristijan Lucic

Assistant Editor

Huawei has been really active as far as device launches go. This Chinese smartphone OEM has released three devices as part of their flagship P8 line, along with the high-end Honor 7 device, and the mid-range Honor 4C smartphone. The company has also released an Android Wear-powered smartwatch this year, as well as three tablets (2 mid-range ones and a premium one). That being said, Huawei si nowhere near done announcing stuff it seems. The company still has to announce their Mate 8 phablet in the coming months, and another two Huawei-branded smartphones just got certified, read on.

The Huawei CL00 and AL00 have been certified by TENAA in China. If you take a look at the images down below, you’ll notice that both of these phones are made out of metal, and that they sport a rear-facing fingerprint scanner. Unfortunately, this certifications process didn’t really reveal any of the specs these two phones will sport, but we do have their images, as previously mentioned. The devices will sport on-screen buttons, and you’ll notice that Huawei’s logo is imprinted below the display. The two smartphones also sport a dual-LED, dual tone flash next to the camera sensor, and it seems like the camera will protrude a little bit on the back. One of these devices actually sports China Telecom’s (Chinese carrier) logo on the back, so it’s safe to assume that model is actually exclusive to that carrier. The other smartphone only has Huawei’s logo on the back, so it’s probably the unlocked model which won’t be tied to a specific carrier.

So, which devices are we looking at here? Well, judging by their design and the available information, it is possible that we’re looking at the two devices from Huawei’s ‘G’ series. Huawei has released the Ascend G7 back in September 2014, and that was a really solid mid-range offering by the company. Huawei has since then ditched the ‘Ascend’ branding, so if these two devices are actually a part of the company’s ‘G’ series, it is very likely they’ll both be named Huawei G8. We’re only guessing here, of course, but we’ll find out soon enough, it is possible that Huawei intends to release this handset / these handsets on July 30th.

Possible Huawei G8 Handset Gets Certified In China | Androidheadlines.com

 

[TaiShang]

Huawei and Volkswagen Collaborate to Connect Automobiles and Smartphones
28 May, 2015

[Shanghai, China, May 27th, 2015] Huawei and Volkswagen announced plans to cooperate in the area of car connectivity, unveiling technology that integrates smartphone functions with vehicle-mounted systems and allows drivers to use those functions safely while driving.

At the International Consumer Electronics Show Asia in Shanghai this week, Huawei and Volkswagen jointly demonstrated a series of apps that safely allow drivers to use GPS navigation systems, play music, send and receive messages, and make phone calls while behind the wheel. The apps support MirrorLink, an open technology standard designed to maximize interoperability between smartphones and vehicle-mounted systems. They cover multiple services including phone calls, SMS, navigation, multimedia, and payment that are all centered on smartphones.


Sven Patuschka, Executive Vice President for Research and Development of Volkswagen Group China, said: “Our cooperation with Huawei will seamlessly blend the capabilities of users’ smartphones with the systems in their cars. All content on the phone will be shown in real time on the car’s infotainment touch screen. The result is smart and convenient interaction between phone and car.”


Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei Consumer BG, observed that vehicles are turning out to be the largest mobile smart terminals. With rich experience in vehicle-mounted smart devices, data, and cloud platforms, Huawei believes its collaboration with Volkswagen will give drivers a seamless entertainment experience while driving comfortably and safely.


The first locally produced Volkswagen model equipped with MirrorLink is the Lamando, followed by the also locally produced Golf 7. More models will follow. All imported Volkswagen products from the model year 2016 will be equipped with MirrorLink.


The Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand is one of 12 brands belonging to the Volkswagen Group. One of the world’s most successful automobile manufacturers, the Group delivered more than 10 million vehicles to customers worldwide last year. Volkswagen entered China almost 32 years ago, and today China is its biggest market worldwide. In 2014, Volkswagen Passenger Cars delivered 2.76 million cars to Chinese customers.


Meanwhile, the sales revenue of Huawei Consumer Business Group (BG) in 2014 was 12.1 billion US dollars, breaking the US$10 billion mark for the first time, with year-on-year growth of 32.6%. In addition to the car connectivity field, Huawei is active in wearables and smart homes. The company is establishing a health data platform for wearables, taking advantage of the huge user base of its devices like P8, Mate7, Huawei Watch, TalkBand N1, and smart bracelet TalkBand B2. Huawei is seeking cooperation with cross-industry partners to build open and integrated standards for a range of consumer goods.