A look at Huawei, a fast-rising smartphone brand

The number of mobile phones Huawei shipped in 2015, the first Chinese brand to pass 100 million in a year and No. 4 worldwide after Nokia, Samsung and Apple, with a 8.7 percent market share.

—129 billion yuan ($19.9 billion): Huawei's sales of smartphones and other consumer devices last year, up 73 percent over 2014 and one-third of the company's total revenue of 395 billion yuan ($60.8 billion).

Huawei's global workforce, about 40 percent non-Chinese and about half working in R&D, the company says.