ZTE Corporation has signed a CNY 3.5 billion strategic cooperation agreement with JD.com, which showed that the two will jointly launch the Youth mobile phones. ZTE's high-end flagship, the Nubia, has been available for purchase on JD.com. The company will also release China Telecom-version 8-core Qingyang 2 on January 20.

ZTE plans to ship 60 million mobile phones in 2014, up 50% from 20 million units in 2013.