Huawei was founded in 1987. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. was founded in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province in 1987. It is the sales agent of a Hong Kong company that produces user switches. Today, Huawei is the world's leading information and communications technology (ICT) solution provider, focusing on the ICT field and providing competitive ICT solutions, products and services to operator customers, enterprise customers and consumers.
In 2013, Huawei surpassed Ericsson, the world's largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer, for the first time, ranking 315th on the Fortune Global 500. Huawei's products and solutions have been used in more than 170 countries around the world, serving 45 of the top 50 global operators and one-third of the world's population.
Huawei’s business areas
Huawei focuses on the ICT infrastructure field and continues to innovate around customer needs such as government and public institutions, finance, energy, power and transportation, and provides solutions that can be ICT products and solutions integrated by partners help enterprises improve the efficiency of communication, office and production systems and reduce operating costs.
Huawei’s Honor
Huawei’s Intellectual Property Department was established as early as 1995. Since 2000, Huawei's domestic patent applications have doubled every year, exceeding 2,000 in 2004. In terms of foreign patent applications, the cumulative number of PCT applications or foreign patent applications has exceeded 600, and the number of domestic and foreign trademark applications has also exceeded 600.
On June 30, 2017, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. won the Madrid Trademark International Registration Special Award of the China Trademark Gold Award.