BEIJING, May 13 (Xinhua) -- China's mobile phone shipments stood at 41.73 million units in April, up 14.2 percent year on year, according to a report released by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) on Tuesday.
From January to April, the country's mobile phone shipments slid 20.1 percent to 90.68 million units, said CAICT, a research institute under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
In April, the country's 5G phones shipments came to 16.38 million units, accounting for 39.3 percent of the gross shipments, CAICT data showed.
In the first four months of this year, 5G phones shipments amounted to 30.44 million units, and a total of 65 new models of 5G phone were released during the period.
(Edited by Yang Yifan with Xinhua Silk Road, yangyifan@xinhua.org)
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