Mobile phone shipments in China's domestic market rose 16.5% year-on-year to 27.64 million units in May, according to data released by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) on June 24.

Of the total, 5G handset shipments reached 26.22 million units, up 23.8% from a year earlier and accounting for 94.9% of all mobile phone shipments during the month.