China Financial Media reports that as India ’s industrial ecology in mobile phone manufacturing is becoming increasingly complete, the country has almost no longer needed to import mobile phones from China.
The First Financial Wednesday (August 16) reported that according to the data provided by the research institution Counterpoint, in the production assembly of Apple mobile phones in 2022, the share of the Chinese market was 96%.About 4%.But since September last year, more and more consumers have discovered that the iPhone 14 series packaging box they bought is printed with the words "Assembled in India".This means that the latest Apple mobile phone is manufactured by India.Apple plans to transfer 25%of production to India by 2025.
It is reported that Chinese mobile phone manufacturers Xiaomi, OPPO and vivo have all achieved manufacturing in India.At the same time, South Korean mobile phone manufacturers Samsung can currently manufacture all flagship mobile phones in India, and this is not the case two years ago.
"Apple and Samsung have achieved significant growth in the past two years." Shilpi Jain, senior analyst of Countpoint, said that the Indian government is promoting smartphone manufacturers to increase local value, including localization of localizationEssence
According to First Finance, this trend has disrupted the mobile phone trade pattern of China and India in the past ten years.In 2014, the number of mobile phones exported to India each year can reach 180 million units.But in recent years, as India's industrial ecology manufactured in mobile phones has become increasingly complete, it has almost no longer needed to import mobile phones from China.
According to the statistics of Indian customs, Indian mobile phones have fallen from 200 million units in 2014 to 3.77 million in 2022, shrinking more than 98%.Downs to 2.19 million units.
