The volume accounted for 79.7 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.
In January, a total of 15 newly-released mobile phone models were 5G phones, accounting for 50 percent of all the newly-released handset models.
The data showed that China shipped 266 million units of 5G phones in 2021, surging by 63.5 percent from 2020.
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