Famous American business media Fast Company has appraised the most innovative companies in 2010, Huawei ranked fifth following Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and google, and it is also the only new ranked business in the top five companies.

Fast Company considered Huawei's strong business development in 2009 comes down to customer-centric innovation. In the publication of March in 2010, Fast Company commented Huawei as: " Huawei exceeded Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia Siemens at one swoop relying on quality and product upgrading in 2009, and became the world's second largest telecom equipment suppliers ... in the last one year, Huawei won a number of valuable contracts ...Precisely these contracts have enabled Huawei to double its market share."

Faced with such an honor, Zhang Hongxi, vice president of Global Marketing of Huawei said: "One of the characteristics of Huawei's success lies in customer-centric strategy. We focus on understanding the needs of operators, and rapidly deliver customized solutions to help customers gain the greatest benefits. Huawei's investment in innovation is the long-term commitment to help our partners to overcome challenges to achieve commercial success. "
                                                                                                     Source: IPR in China