{"id":968962,"date":"2025-10-23T08:10:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=968962"},"modified":"2025-10-23T08:17:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:47:05","slug":"chinese-phone-makers-expand-india-operations-despite-thin-margins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/23\/chinese-phone-makers-expand-india-operations-despite-thin-margins\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese phone makers expand India operations despite thin margins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Chinese smartphone contract manufacturers such as DBG and BYD are expanding or re-establishing their presence in India, despite working on lower margins compared with local producers, amid a thaw in India-China relations, industry executives said. <\/p>\n<p>While Indian contract manufacturers dominate the market by a big margin, Chinese players are seeing a rise in order volumes from Chinese smartphone brands including Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo that work through original design manufacturers (ODMs) Huaqin and Longcheer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Chinese smartphone contract manufacturers such as DBG and BYD are expanding or re-establishing their presence in India, despite working on lower margins compared with local producers, amid a thaw in India-China relations, industry executives said. While Indian contract manufacturers dominate the market by a big margin, Chinese players are seeing a rise in order volumes from Chinese smartphone brands including Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo that work through original design manufacturers (ODMs) Huaqin and Longcheer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}