ZTE India appoints Xu Dejun as CEO

ZTE Telecom India, a 100 percent subsidiary of ZTE today announced the appointment of Xu Dejun as its CEO for its India operations.

Xu Dejun began working at ZTE in 2001 at the company's headquarters in Shenzhen, China, before moving to India in 2005. He has over a decade of experience in international projects and business development and marketing.

Prior to his appointment as India CEO, Xu worked as ZTE Africa's head of international projects, as ZTE India's head of technical sales and as the senior vice president of ZTE India's Indian Engineering Service Center.

"India is an important market for us. In 2013, we have renewed our focus on key customers, our service business and terminals," said Xu.

Further, our enterprise business is expanding at a phenomenal rate and we have focused partner initiatives in place to build more synergy there and in addition, we are working on various projects for education, hospitality and smart cities added Dejun.

In 2013, ZTE has plans to launch a range of terminals including 3G data cards and smartphones in India and plans to increase smartphone revenue by 30 percent.