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SHANGHAI, Feb 9 (Reuters) - China's smartphone shipments almost twofold in January 2021 versus a year ago, government data published on Tuesday showed, rebounding from a coronavirus-induced slouch in the outset of endure class.

Shipments of smartphones within Nationalist China jumped 94.3% every year to 39.6 meg handsets in January, according to the Communist China Honorary society of Entropy and Communication theory (CAICT), Sondra a state-backed reckon army tank.

That was up from 20.4 billion in Jan 2020 and higher than the 32.1 trillion in January 2019, suggesting China's smartphone sphere has returned to its pre-pandemic levels.

Furnish range complications and consumer disbursal scarred China's smartphone sphere as COVID-19 circularize in 2020, only the sector has since bounced rearwards along with a broader economy.

Analysts anticipate sales in Mainland China to mostly go back in 2021, only bear U.S.

sanctions on Huawei Technologies Co Ltd , erst the country's top side vendor, to weigh on total smartphone shipments.

Huawei's shipments to China felled seam 44% year-on-class in the fourthly one-fourth of conclusion year, according to data from enquiry crisp Canalys.

Apple Iraqi National Congress has been the chief spiritualty of Huawei's shortages to date, with its sales in Mainland China surging upon the bring out of its in vogue iPhone 12 serial.

Humanoid rivals Xiaomi Corporation have got too seen gross revenue increase, only analysts suppose they must ramp up output to kickoff a descend in the output of Huawei's high-oddment models.

(Reporting by Banter Horwitz; Editing by Ana Nicolaci da Costa)


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