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China has invested more than RMB 260 billion yuan in 5G network construction and will continue to promote the development, construction, and application of 5G networks in the future.

Xiaomi overtakes Samsung to rank first in the Russian online smartphone market in Q4 2020; Apple enters the top three for the first time and Huawei's share drops to 14.8% in fourth place, according to a new report from Counterpoint.

Due to Covid-19, China's cell phone shipments were only 20.81 million units in January last year and fell to 6.34 million units in the following month.

The Chinese tablet market shipped approximately 6.14 million units in the fourth quarter of 2020, up 5.6 percent year-on-year, according to IDC.

Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus became the only major brand to grow in the US cell phone market in 2020, with an annual increase of 163 percent, according to a Counterpoint report.

Huawei shipped as many as 125 million units in China in 2020, taking first place with a 38.3% share, according to IDC.

By the end of 2020, the number of game apps reached 887,000 among all app categories in the Chinese market, accounting for 25.7% of all apps, latest data showed.

The top 30 mobile game products in terms of overseas revenue generated a total of $9.24 billion in the App Store and Google Play, up 47% from $6.3 billion in 2019.

Chinese vendors account for about 77 percent of smartphone shipments in India in 2020, up 5 percentage points from 72% in 2019, according to a report from market research firm Canalys.

The deal value of merge and acquisitions by Chinese companies rose 30% to $733.8 billion in 2020, the highest level since 2016, and the number of M&A deals increased 11% from the previous year, according to a new report.