Chinese smartphone shipments surge more than 22% in May, agency says
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Smartphone shipments in China surged last month as the country emerges from the economic downturn caused in part by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a statement from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, smartphone shipments rose 22.6% in May to 25.2M handsets, ahead of the country's shopping festival, 6.18. That figure is up more than 4M units from the year-ago period, the agency said.

During the festival, some of China's biggest retailers, including Alibaba (BABA), JD.com (JD) and others, feature discounts on products and services.
Shares of Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Google (GOOG), Sony (SONY) and other smartphone-related stocks were fractionally lower in pre-market trading on Monday.

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