The company now has plans to open several delivery routes within the next two to three months with China Post along the country's eastern coastal regions and is waiting for approval from civil aviation authorities, Liu said.
The company is also working to expand the business to Britain, Russia and Poland, where it has already achieved some progress.
The company's domestic crude output rose 1.34 percent year-on-year in February, while natural gas production grew 8.34 percent from the same period a year ago.
The company said its smartphone business is booming, as it ramps up efforts to explore overseas markets. Unlike most Chinese smartphone vendors which have limited presence in the United States, ZTE is very popular.
The company said earlier it would increase energy supplies to economies related to the Belt and Road Initiative with further investment in countries and regions participating in the initiative.
The company raked in 212.92 billion yuan (.22 billion) in net profits last year, up 5.08 percent year-on-year, according to the company's annual report filed with the Shanghai Stock Exchange Monday.
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The company is also setting foot in the vocational education sector, in the hope of nurturing more talents for the movie and gaming industries.
The company is trying to find out whether any Amazon Web Services infrastructure is indirectly supporting 8chan through Epik, another Seattle-area company that provides hosting and domain services. Epik came under scrutiny this week for temporarily reviving 8chan, the website where a suspected shooter in El Paso, Texas, posted a racist manifesto before opening fire in a crowded Walmart. Epik later reversed the decision to host 8chan’s content, but remained the site’s domain registrar.
The company said shipments of chipsets in the first quarter increased over 70 percent from the same period a year ago. To strengthen its position in 5G research, it is on track to start 5G-commercial deployments in the third quarter of 2018.
The competition, launched in July this year, saw more than 4,000 information technology students register at the preliminary stages from 40 universities across the country. Of these, 600 were selected for training after a competitive selection process, after which the top 100 then underwent further coaching at a boot camp session before sitting for the nationwide exams.