Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: smartphone production fell 6.1% in the first three quarters compared with the same period last year, and integrated circuit production dropped 2.5% year-on-year.

CTOnews.com news on October 30, today the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released the operation of the Internet and related services in the first three quarters of 2023.

CTOnews.com noted that the data showed that in the first three quarters, the added value of the above-scale electronic information manufacturing industry increased by 1.4% compared with the same period last year, which was 0.5% higher than that in January-August; the growth rate was 2.6% and 0.5% lower than that of industrial and high-tech manufacturing in the same period, respectively. In September, the added value of above-scale electronic information manufacturing industry increased by 4.5% compared with the same period last year.

In the first three quarters, among the main products, the output of mobile phones was 1.094 billion, up 0.8 percent from the same period last year, including 792 million smartphones, down 6.1 percent from the same period last year; 253 million units of microcomputer equipment, down 21.1 percent from the same period last year; and 244.7 billion integrated circuits, down 2.5 percent from the same period last year.