Domestic brands take the pole position in handset shipments

Domestic brands dominated mobile phone shipments during the first seven months of the year as manufacturers stepped up their innovation efforts, an industry report showed on Monday.

Mobile phone shipments in the country totaled 233 million units during the January-July period, with those made by Chinese manufacturers accounting for 90.5 percent of the total, according to the report from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, a government think tank.

In July, the proportion of domestic smartphone manufacturers in the country even hit a record high of 95.1 percent, the report showed.