The volume accounted for 74.1 percent of the country's total mobile phone shipments during the period, said the CAICT, a research institute under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
According to the data, half of the 296 newly-released mobile phone models during this period were 5G phones.
In August alone, China shipped 17.69 million units of 5G phones, up 9.4 percent year on year, the data showed.
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