According to the statistics from China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China's mobile phone output decreased by 11.2% year-on-year in the first two months of 2009 and its mobile phone exports decreased by 17.2% during the same period, the largest decline over the past few years.

Fujitsu Quality Laboratory Limited has announced the establishment of a subsidiary in Suzhou which will offer local quality and environmental assurance services to companies in the electronics sector.

Global home appliances maker Electrolux has announced that its president for the China area Li Yan has departed from her position, replaced by Electrolux's president for Asia Pacific Gunilla Nordstrom, who will hold both posts concurrently.

The world's leading electronics retailer Best Buy has started to sell its self-owned brand LCD TVs in China for the first time and those TVs are only available in Best Buy's stores.

According to the decision announced by the Intermediate People's Court of Hangzhou, the Korean electronics maker Samsung has been ordered to pay CNY50 million compensation to the Zhejiang-based Holley Communications for infringing the patent of Holley's GSM/CDMA dual-mode handsets.

Flextronics, one of the world's leading electronics manufacturing services providers, will cut 30% of the jobs in its Beijing office in addition to closing its research and development department in Beijing.

Avnet has opened a new sales outlet in Shenzhen's International Components Center.

According to the latest report of CCID Consulting, in the first half of 2008, China's MP3 player market realized sales of about 2.5 million MP3 players and revenue of CNY1.223 billion, year-on-year decreases of 43.76% and 43.56%, respectively.

Toshiba Corporation has announced that the company has turned the joint venture it ran with top Chinese electronics maker TCL into a wholly owned subsidiary by acquiring the remaining 10% stake of the joint venture for JPY200 million.