CHINA’S mobile phone shipments dived 27.3 percent year on year to 26.15 million units in October, according to a report by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT).

Total shipments during the January-Ocotober period reached 252 million units, down 22.1 percent from the same period last year, said CAICT, a research institute under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

5G mobile phones accounted for 64.1 percent of the total shipments in October at 16.76 million units.

(Xinhua)