This undated photo shows a visitor checking a 5G phone in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong province. (PHOTO/XINHUA)

BEIJING - The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) has revealed that mobile phone shipments in China increased 34.3 percent year-on-year to over 31.21 million units in November.

5G mobile phones accounted for the majority of the November shipments, totaling 27.09 million units, marking a 51.2 percent year-on-year expansion, according to CAICT, a research institution under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

In November, domestic brands maintained their dominance in China's mobile phone industry, with shipments increasing 26.5 percent year-on-year to 25.44 million units.

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Total cellphone shipments in the first 11 months increased 7.1 percent year-on-year to 261 million units, CAICT said.