As several Chinese mobile phone companies have failed in India one after another, the industry has begun to reflect on the development of Chinese mobile phones in India, believing that this has provided a wedding dress for Indian manufacturing and has also cultivated Indian manufacturing rivals, which will have far-reaching consequences for Chinese manufacturing. Impact.
1. Chinese mobile phones make wedding clothes for Indian manufacturing
Before Chinese mobile phones entered the Indian market, India's mobile phone manufacturing industry was quite weak. At that time, local brands such as Micromax, which was emerging in India, completely handed over the production of mobile phones to mobile phone foundries in Shenzhen, China, and then directly shipped the finished products to India for sale. It can be said that India at that time Mobile phone manufacturing is almost completely blank.
Chinese mobile phones entered the Indian market in 2014. In 2017, a Chinese mobile phone company opened a factory in India. Subsequently, many Chinese mobile phone companies entered one after another. Some Chinese mobile phone companies even stated that the mobile phones produced by Indian factories will not only be supplied to the Indian market, but will also be sold in India. As a base, mobile phones made in India were sold to Africa, the Middle East and other places. That was the golden age of Chinese mobile phones in India.
However, Chinese mobile phones did not stay happy for long. Starting in 2021, India has successively taken measures against Chinese mobile phones, issuing huge fines to Chinese mobile phones on the grounds of tax issues that it has always been skilled in. This year, it has even "robbed" them directly. A Chinese mobile phone company has 4.8 billion yuan in cash. It can be said that all the money made by Chinese mobile phones in India in the past few years has been given to India, which is a waste of time.
India has gained huge profits. Indian consumers have obtained smartphones supplied by Chinese mobile phone companies, which has accelerated the development of the Indian mobile phone market; Chinese mobile phone factories built in India cannot be moved, and they have cultivated a group of skilled workers for India, making Indian products more popular. Push up a step.
More importantly, Chinese mobile phones have laid the foundation for the mobile phone industry chain for Indian manufacturing. Although it is said that the foundation of the Indian mobile phone industry chain is still weak, the eight years of efforts in China's mobile phone industry have still led to the creation of a number of local mobile phone industry chain companies. India's mobile phone industry chain has a certain foundation, and Apple only prompted Foxconn to enter India to set up factories in 2019.
2. Impact of Made in India on Made in China
Chinese mobile phones manufactured in India will naturally not return to the Chinese market for sale, but Apple has begun to use manufacturing in India to boost its global sales. The iPhone 15 recently released by Apple, it is said that the iPhone 15 made in India is sold to the Chinese market. Only iPhone 15 made in China is sold in the European and American markets, so Indian manufacturing has begun to directly compete with Chinese manufacturing.
Chinese companies are now setting up factories not only in India, but also in Vietnam. As Chinese companies establish factories in these regions or countries and cultivate industrial chains for them, not only Apple plans to hand over more iPhone OEMs to these regions, HP, Dell and others have also planned to move more production capacity out of China to enhance the strength of these competitors and pose challenges to Chinese manufacturing.
The development of manufacturing in India is highly similar to the growth process of manufacturing in China. As manufacturing in India has established a certain foundation, India's measures against Chinese mobile phones have led to the decline of Chinese mobile phones in the Indian market. This will once again provide space for local Indian mobile phone brands. Perhaps It won't be long before a number of mobile phone brands emerge again in India, and these mobile phone brands will also enter the international market to compete with Chinese mobile phones in the future.
It can be said that China Mobile's eight years of hard work in India has not only failed to gain anything, but is even paying the price. They may face fierce competition from potential local Indian mobile phone brands, which makes China Mobile regret it.
In order to check and balance Chinese mobile phones, Google, which owns the Android system, has expressed strong interest in the Indian market. Google has customized a simplified version of the Android Go system for India's largest operator, showing that it hopes to support the emergence of a number of smartphone companies in India and avoid the current situation in China. The influence of mobile phones being too powerful.
For Chinese mobile phones, the global market has undergone major changes. Sales of Samsung and Apple are rebounding in the European market. The offensive momentum of Chinese mobile phones has been suppressed. The Indian market is the largest overseas market for Chinese mobile phones and has suffered a heavy setback. Mobile phone sales in the domestic market Shipments are declining day by day, from 470 million in the early years to 280 million in 2022, and are expected to fall below 250 million this year. China's mobile phones seem to be in a dilemma internally and externally.