A new report from Chinese outlet Leifeng suggests OPPO has created a new internal sub-series business unit and is reorganizing how OnePlus and realme are managed inside the broader group.
Based on the announcement cited in the report, OPPO Senior Vice President Li Bingzhong, also known as Sky, will lead the newly created unit. The marketing and service systems covering OnePlus and realme will be overseen by Xu Qi, who previously served as president of realme marketing and service.
On the product side, the company is also said to be setting up a dedicated sub-series product center. That structure will include both domestic and overseas product teams, all managed by Li Jie, who will report to Liu Zuohu. Former realme vice president Wang Wei, also known as Derek, is reportedly taking the role of deputy general manager of the sub-series product center and will report to Li Jie.
The report also says the former realme R&D team is being folded back into the wider group. Imaging, hardware, and other related teams are expected to be merged into OPPO’s existing hardware departments rather than continuing as more separate organizational lines.
This move lines up with an earlier service-side integration that had already become public. On March 20, realme announced that its after-sales support in mainland China would gradually be integrated into OPPO’s service system. Starting April 1, 2026, after-sales support for realme phones, tablets, computers, and IoT products in mainland China has been handled through OPPO’s service network.
For now, the report focuses on structure rather than new devices. Still, the combination of management, product, R&D, and service changes suggests OPPO is tightening coordination between OnePlus and realme as competition in the smartphone market keeps intensifying.
