Smartphone shipments on decline

BEIJING, March 17 (Xinhua) -- China's smartphone shipments fell 20.1 percent year on year in February to 13.99 million units, data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) showed.

Last month, smartphones accounted for 96.4 percent of all Mobile phone shipments in the country, according to a report from the CAICT, a research institute under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

Overall Mobile phone shipments dropped 19.9 percent in February to 14.51 million units, among which 96.4 percent were 4G phones.

Chinese-brand Mobile phones accounted for 90.3 percent of total shipments last month, according to the report.

In the first two months, the country's Mobile phone shipments dropped 15.1 percent to 48.56 million units.