ZTE insists on continuous technological innovation and creates value for customers, and has set up global R&D institutions in the United States, Sweden, China and other places. At the same time, further strengthen independent innovation and maintain R&D investment in core areas such as 5G wireless, core network, bearer, access and chip. R&D investment has remained above 65,438+00% of operating income for many years. ZTE has 80,000 patent applications worldwide, and more than 40,000 patents have been granted, ranking among the top five in PCT international patent applications for nine consecutive years. At the same time, ZTE is a major participant and contributor to the global research and standard setting of 5G technology.
ZTE adheres to the concept of sustainable development on a global scale and realizes the harmonious life of society, environment and stakeholders. Using communication technology to help people in different regions enjoy equal freedom of communication; The concept of "innovation, integration and green" runs through the whole product life cycle, as well as the whole process of research and development, production, logistics and customer service, and makes unremitting efforts to reduce energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions worldwide; In 20 19, it was selected for the second time in FTSE4GoodIndexSeries, ranking 100 among the top 300 corporate social responsibility development indexes in China. ZTE is a member of the United Nations Global Compact and GESI (Global Electronic Sustainable Development). Since 2009, the sustainable development report/corporate social responsibility report has been actively released to the society for 12 years.
ZTE is committed to building the core competitiveness of independent innovation in the 5G era, and will accelerate the global 5G commercial scale deployment with a full range of leading 5G end-to-end products and solutions.