In contrast to taking up half of China's market in 2003, homemade mobile phone brands suffered a hard blow in 2005.

Beijing-based CCID Consulting predicts that the sales of mobile phone in China last year can be more than 88 million handsets or totally 130 billion yuan, growing at a two-digit rate.

With a downslide first seen in 2004, the market share of national brands continued to fall last year, to around 34 percent.

Turnovers continued declining along with the sales. Domestic brands, except for Lenovo, have all stumbled as BIRD, TCLmobile, Eastcom, Capitel and Amoi all saw deficits. Some enterprises even have been thrown to the brink of bankruptcy.

By People's Daily Online