BEIJING-At a mobile industry conference in Hangzhou, attended by 27 handset manufacturers, it was decided to fix the output target for this year at 80 million handsets. According to incomplete statistics, 53.96 million handsets were produced in China in 2000, considerably more than the 40 million planned and 1.32 times more than in 1999. More than 23 million handsets were exported.
Of the total, 93.6 percent were produced by joint ventures or wholly foreign-owned subsidiaries of mobile-phone manufacturers. Local Chinese manufacturers produced only 6.37 percent of the total.
According to a report in People’s Telecom, Motorola’s three factories in China produced 33.3 percent of all handsets, followed by Nokia with 30.2 percent and Ericsson with 9.7 percent. Smaller manufacturers include Siemens (7.5 percent), Philips (4.2 percent), Matsushita (3.9 percent) and Alcatel (2.8 percent). These manufacturers accounted for 91.6 percent of total production and 97 percent of exports.
