Production of cell phones by month in China 2020-2024

In September 2024, the production volume of cellphones in China amounted to over 170 million units. 

Cell phone industry in China – additional information

According to the statistic shown, almost 1.4 billion cell phones have been produced in China until November 2023. China has been one of the leading cell phone manufacturing countries in the world and may continue to develop steadily in the near future. In addition to its established status as a manufacturing country for mobiles, China’s domestic mobile phone market has become one of the largest cell phone markets in the world.

As of 2021, around 75 million units of smartphones were shipped quarterly. However, total smartphone shipments started dropping in the last few years with around 286 million units of smartphones shipped in China in 2022.

The number of cell phone subscribers in China had reached about 1.71 billion in July 2023, displaying a growth momentum of a few million subscribers each month, which was hit hard by coronavirus at the beginning of 2020. Meanwhile, the number of fixed telephone lines had decreased to about 176 million in July 2023, marking a significant cutback over the past years. In terms of operating systems, Android and iOS had maintained their tight grip on the market with a mobile phone operating system market share of over 78 percent and 21 percent in China as of July 2023.