When HTC was overtaken in China by Gionee, it may have been a surprise to foreign observers. While Gionee did not register in smartphone sales statistics a year ago, it now has a 4.7 per cent market share, selling more than 1m phones in the third quarter this year.

当宏达电(HTC)在中国市场被金立(Gionee)超越时，国外观察人士可能吃了一惊。一年前，智能手机销量统计报告中还找不到金立的名字；而现在，金立已占据了4.7%的市场份额，今年第三季度共卖出100多万部手机。

But Gionee did not appear out of nowhere. The company, along with a dozen equally fast-growing domestic peers, is well-known in China.

金立并不是凭空冒出来的。这家公司同十几家同样快速成长的国内同行一样，在中国颇有名气。

Most of these groups come from Guangdong, home to China’s main telecoms manufacturing hub, and originated as wholesalers or retailers of electronic goods.

这些公司多数位于广东（那里是中国主要的电信设备制造中心），而且大多是从电子产品批发或零售起家的。

When MediaTek, a Taiwanese chip designer, started offering handset chipsets at a lower price than global rivals and with an entire software pack that helps in the production of handsets, many of these small workshops entered handset manufacturing.

当台湾芯片设计商联发科(MediaTek)开始以低于国际竞争对手的价格提供手机芯片、并在芯片中嵌入能够简化手机开发的一整套软件包时，上述很多小公司开始迈入手机制造业。

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