ZTE has initiated an internal operational migration, transferring its official mobile communications presence to a new corporate entity called ZTE Devices. Operations shift from ZTE Corporation directly to Shanghai Shenqi Jiyuan Intelligent Terminal Company, a wholly owned subsidiary. The structural change consolidates smartphone manufacturing, software engineering, and on device artificial intelligence under a specialized terminal division.
Shanghai Shenqi Jiyuan operates under full ownership by ZTE Corporation. Executive leadership places Wang Xiyu as chairman, with mobile executive Ni Fei serving as director. Corporate filings show the subsidiary updated its operational scope to cover mobile terminal manufacturing, software development, and telecommunications equipment production. This administrative move positions the division to run hardware operations independently from the primary network infrastructure business of ZTE.
The subsidiary serves as the operational entity behind the mobile software platform for ZTE and Nubia. Regulatory records confirm Shanghai Shenqi Jiyuan as the applicant behind the Nubia Doubao mobile large language model, which cleared national generative AI filing requirements alongside 7 other consumer smartphone AI services. Managing the operating account under this entity links consumer hardware distribution directly to internal AI software deployment.
