According to foreign media reports, when it comes to smart phones, and Huawei's first brand is not what you had in mind, but this does not mean that it is not an important company. In fact, its volume is enormous, in the communications equipment market is worthy of the King. Here we come to a common inventory of ten on Huawei's little-known anecdotes.

1. ren zhengfei, 42 years old and I started by Huawei

Ren zhengfei

What are you doing at the age of 42? I'm afraid most is going through their mid-life crisis. Ren Zheng Huawei boss non-different, he was a late bloomer, middle-aged people to built its empire. And before founding Huawei, ren zhengfei, is a people's Liberation Army technical specialist.

Aged 71, ren zhengfei, is still active in the day-to-day management of the company, although he heads one of China's biggest companies, but whose wealth ranks No. 556 in China.

2. Why is called "Huawei"?

In answering this question, Mr ren said: "when we registered the company, can't put a name to, watching on the wall ' Chinese ' slogans louder to recall the name, has a great deal of randomness. Huawei, the name should be good. "Huawei" pronunciation accent is closed, not loud. Recently we are sure that Huawei, the name was not changed. We want to teach foreigners how to pronounce the name, not the old ' Hawaii '. ”

3. the company is the world's largest maker of communications equipment

Huawei mobile phones

Huawei in the Smartphone sector still unable to challenge Samsung and Apple to the throne, but it is the leading big brother behind in the communications industry as a whole. In 2012, beyond the King succeeded in landing on the communications equipment manufacturer Ericsson.

4. when Huawei was founded is the production of telephone exchanges

Huawei's history can be traced back to the 80 's of the last century, the company was founded in 1987 in Shenzhen. At that time, imports the whole communication equipment in China, very passive, national security is not guaranteed. So, ren wants to change this situation through independent research and development, and telephone switches is that they attack the first problem.

5.80% of the world's telecommunications companies cooperated with Huawei

Huawei is official sponsor of arsenal

Huawei has a long list of partners, many of them are world-class enterprises, which include Vodafone, Motorola and t-mobile. In addition to creating its own brand mobile phone, Huawei also is partner of many telecom operators, as evidenced by its presence in the industry. In addition, Huawei is a familiar arsenal and Paris Saint Germain club sponsor.

6. Huawei for Canada universities invest millions of dollars

Huawei also for Canada at Carleton University provided $ 1.4 million investment. Investments the University is to establish a research and development laboratory, specializing in cloud computing services, and technology research and development.

In fact, Huawei on behalf of education sponsored by the University, which also shares in the famous MIT communications plans for the future.

7. shares largely Huawei Huawei employees

Its staff

Because you have not listed that Huawei's "shares" in the hands of employees, it is learned that 64% employees are involved in employee stock ownership plans. However, if the employee chooses to leave, their shares will be returned to the company, Huawei will provide the corresponding value of the compensation.

8. ties with the United States intergovernmental frictions

Because ren zhengfei founded Huawei in front of military background, United States Government of Huawei have been more "ambiguous" attitude, which concerns issues related to spy. United States Government in the year 2012, or even to keep the company as a "national security threat".

2014 events continue to ferment after snow, according to secret documents, United States National Security Council is planning about the company's secret plans, including breach of Huawei ren zhengfei, intranet and monitoring communications.

9. the company has more than 76,000 development staff

Huawei researchers

There is no doubt that Huawei is a big company, but the size of its research and development team did some shocking, 76,000 people this is not an ordinary company can reach, which also explains reasons for Huawei to stand in the forefront of technological innovation. It is learnt that the Huawei 10% of income directly into research and development.

10.2010 Huawei's sales surge 30%

30%! This rate is far too astonishing. Huawei can achieve such good results mainly because of its successful expansion across the globe. Market research company Gartner data shows that in 2010, reaching 78.56 billion dollars in market share of carrier communication network construction market took 15.7%.

据外媒报道，提到智能手机时，可能华为并不是你心目中的第一品牌，不过这并不意味着它不是一家重要的公司。事实上，华为的体量相当庞大，它在通讯设备市场更是当之无愧的王者。下面我们就来共同盘点十个关于华为不为人知的趣闻。

1. 任正非42岁时才创建了华为

任正非

42岁时你在干嘛？恐怕大多数正在经历自己的中年危机吧。华为老总任正非可不同，他居然大器晚成，人到中年一手打造起华为帝国。而在创办华为前，任正非是解放军的一名技术专家。

现年71岁的任正非依然活跃在华为公司的日常管理中，虽然他领导着中国最大的公司之一，但其财富仅排在中国第556名。

2. 为什么取名叫“华为”？

在回答这一问题时，任正非表示：“我们当初注册公司时，起不出名字来，看着墙上‘中华有为’标语响亮就拿来起名字了，有极大的随意性。华为这个名字应该是起得不好。因为“华为”的发音是闭口音，不响亮。最近我们确定华为这个名字不改了。我们要教一下外国人怎么发音这个名字，不要老发成‘夏威夷’。”

3. 华为是世界上最大的通讯设备制造商

华为手机

虽然华为在智能手机界暂时还无法挑战三星和苹果的王位，但它是整个通讯业幕后的带头大哥。2012年，它超越爱立信成功登上通讯设备制造商的王者之位。

4. 华为创立时是生产电话交换机的

华为的历史可以追溯到上世纪八十年代了，该公司于1987年创立于深圳。当时，整个中国的通讯设备都要靠进口，非常被动，国家安全也得不到保障。于是，任正非想通过自主研发改变这一现状，而电话交换机就是他们攻克的首个难题。

5. 全世界80%的电信公司都与华为有合作

华为是阿森纳的官方赞助商

华为有一个长长的合作伙伴名单，它们中有许多都是世界级的企业，其中就包括沃达丰、摩托罗拉和T-Mobile等。除了打造自有品牌手机，华为还是许多电信运营商的合作伙伴，其在业界的影响力可见一斑。此外，华为还是大家熟悉的阿森纳和巴黎圣日耳曼俱乐部的赞助商。

6. 华为为加拿大一所大学投资百万美元

华为还为加拿大卡尔顿大学提供了140万美元的投资。投资这所大学是为了建立一个研发实验室，专攻云计算服务和技术的研发。

事实上，华为以教育的名义赞助了多所大学，它们在著名的麻省理工通讯未来计划中也有股份。

7. 华为员工持有大部分华为股份

华为员工

由于尚未上市，华为的“股份”都握在员工手中，据悉，有64%的员工都参与了员工持股计划。不过，如果员工选择离开，他们手中的股份就会交还给公司，华为则会提供相应价值的补偿。

8. 华为与美国政府间摩擦不断

由于任正非创办华为前的军方背景，美国政府对华为一直持较为“暧昧”的态度，它们担心华为会涉及间谍问题。美国政府在2012年甚至将华为列为“国家安全威胁”。

2014年斯诺登事件不断发酵后，秘密文件显示，美国国安局正在筹划针对华为的秘密计划，包括攻破华为的内网和监控任正非的通讯等。

9. 华为有超过7.6万名研发人员

华为科研人员

毋庸置疑，华为是一家大公司，不过其研发团队的规模确实有些令人震惊，7.6万人这一数字可不是一般公司能达到的，这也解释了华为能站在科技创新最前沿的原因。据悉，华为的年收入有10%会直接投入研发之中。

10. 2010年华为营收暴增30%

30%！这一增长速度实在是过于惊人。华为能取得如此好成绩主要是凭借它在全球各地的成功扩张。市场研究公司Gartner的数据显示，2010年，华为在市场规模达到785.6亿美元的运营商通讯网络建设市场拿走了15.7%的份额。