China, the world’s biggest smart phone market, has produced fewer mobile phones and the new versions in 2017 pointing to a slowdown in one of successful segments of China’s manufacturing sector in recent years.
The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology said today that mobile phone shipments reached 491 million last year while only 1,054 new types of cell phones were rolled out, down 12.3 per cent and 27.1 per cent.
Shipments of domestic mobile phone brands fell by 12.4 per cent year on year to reach 436 million last year, accounting for about 88.8 per cent of total shipments.
