China's mobile phone shipments surged 8.7 percent year on year to nearly 32.27 million units in October 2025, data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) showed on Wednesday.

Approximately 90.9 percent of the October shipments were 5G mobile phones, nearing 29.33 million units and an increase of 9.7 percent year on year, according to the CAICT, a research institute under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

The number of 5G mobile phone users in China had topped 1.18 billion by the end of October this year -- a net increase of 170 million from the end of 2024 and accounting for 64.7 percent of all mobile phone users in the country, according to data from the MIIT.