...particular. largest publicly listed Chinese telecommunications vendor, with FY 2004 sales of US$2,563 million and some 17,000 employees, the group currently derives US$553.28 million--or nearly 22% of its turnover--from overseas markets and is active in some 60 countries worldwide. The rate of growth of ZTE's international business is particularly striking, increasing in 2004 by 133.5% compared to the previous year and putting the group on target to reach 40% of turnover from export sales by 2006.

ZTE's considerable international success to date results from its ability to deliver high-reliability world class technology, and exploit the wealth of experience it possesses in the design and deployment of innovative solutions, to its client base. In this context, ZTE solutions meet all relevant international standards--for example, the group uses 6-Sigma quality control in production and implements CMM in R&D management--and all its major products have TuV CB and CE certification.

Another important element fostering growth in its international business is the fact that ZTE's product portfolio is one of the most comprehensive in the industry, taking in fixed and mobile--the latter including GSM, W-CDMD, CDMA 2000, TD-SCDMA, CDMA450 and trunked radio--converged solutions, broadband access, wireless local loop, fibre optics, data communications, next generation networks (NGNs), videoconferencing, value-added services and terminals.

A third consideration is its commitment to ground breaking R&D. "As a...

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