Liu Minxia
MORE than 40 international companies decided to purchase mobile phones and components worth more than US$400 million in a procurement summit held in Shenzhen at the weekend.
Jointly organized by the Ministry of Information Industry and the Shenzhen Bureau of Science, Technology and Information, the two-day summit, which closed Friday, brought together a total of 42 international buyers and more than 100 domestic suppliers, who closed more than 70 deals at the summit.
“We source about 30,000 mobile phones from Shenzhen every year, and I found two new mobile models with exciting new technology at this summit,” said Roberto Mejia, an employee with the Shenzhen office of Smartcell of Colombia.
“In the past week, I attended the Hong Kong fair and the Canton fair, but I found this summit was the most helpful for people in the mobile phone industry.
“We have found some very good technology at the summit,” said Robert Clarson, managing director of Webcor, a U.S. company that spends about US$10 million on consumer electronic products in Shenzhen every year.
More than 10 global telecom providers, including WIT from Russia, Mobitel from Sri Lanka, SK and KTF from South Korea and Reliance and TATA from India, also attended the summit.
“China has launched the third-generation (3G) services and I came to see the new technology,” said Eugene Popov, general director of Russia’s GSM 900/1800 operator.
“My country may launch 3G services in the latter half of this year,” he said.
Held in Shenzhen for the first time, the summit attracted more representatives than expected and would be held again later this year or early next year, said Jennifer Wang, CEO of the summit organizing committee.
More than 98 percent of the buyers would return to Shenzhen to source electronics, according to a survey conducted by the committee.
Shenzhen, the nation’s largest mobile phone manufacturing base, has the most integrated chain of mobile phone production in the country, according to Liu Zhongpu, an official with Shenzhen Bureau of Science, Technology and Information.
With more than 600 mobile phone makers, about 100 mobile phone designers, more than 3,000 phone component and accessory manufacturers and 200 Bluetooth device manufacturers, Shenzhen mobile phone production accounted for half of China’s total and one-fifth of the world’s total last year, the official said.
Previous statistics showed Shenzhen shipped more than 200 million mobile phones last year.
With the development of 3G and other new technology, Shenzhen’s mobile phone industry was expected to see another record growth in the coming three to five years, analysts predicted.
Liu Minxia
MORE than 40 international companies decided to purchase mobile phones and components worth more than US$400 million in a procurement summit held in Shenzhen at the weekend.
Jointly organized by the Ministry of Information Industry and the Shenzhen Bureau of Science, Technology and Information, the two-day summit, which closed Friday, brought together a total of 42 international buyers and more than 100 domestic suppliers, who closed more than 70 deals at the summit.
“We source about 30,000 mobile phones from Shenzhen every year, and I found two new mobile models with exciting new technology at this summit,” said Roberto Mejia, an employee with the Shenzhen office of Smartcell of Colombia.
“In the past week, I attended the Hong Kong fair and the Canton fair, but I found this summit was the most helpful for people in the mobile phone industry.
“We have found some very good technology at the summit,” said Robert Clarson, managing director of Webcor, a U.S. company that spends about US$10 million on consumer electronic products in Shenzhen every year.
More than 10 global telecom providers, including WIT from Russia, Mobitel from Sri Lanka, SK and KTF from South Korea and Reliance and TATA from India, also attended the summit.
“China has launched the third-generation (3G) services and I came to see the new technology,” said Eugene Popov, general director of Russia’s GSM 900/1800 operator.
“My country may launch 3G services in the latter half of this year,” he said.
Held in Shenzhen for the first time, the summit attracted more representatives than expected and would be held again later this year or early next year, said Jennifer Wang, CEO of the summit organizing committee.
More than 98 percent of the buyers would return to Shenzhen to source electronics, according to a survey conducted by the committee.
Shenzhen, the nation’s largest mobile phone manufacturing base, has the most integrated chain of mobile phone production in the country, according to Liu Zhongpu, an official with Shenzhen Bureau of Science, Technology and Information.
With more than 600 mobile phone makers, about 100 mobile phone designers, more than 3,000 phone component and accessory manufacturers and 200 Bluetooth device manufacturers, Shenzhen mobile phone production accounted for half of China’s total and one-fifth of the world’s total last year, the official said.
Previous statistics showed Shenzhen shipped more than 200 million mobile phones last year.
With the development of 3G and other new technology, Shenzhen’s mobile phone industry was expected to see another record growth in the coming three to five years, analysts predicted.
Rocky Rai (L) from India's Super Star Ltd. talks with a sales manager of Shenzhen TINNO Mobile Technology Co. who identified himself only as Claude (R) during the summit at the Silver Lake Resort in Shenzhen on Friday.Liu Minxia
