China-based Xiaomi starts smartphone production in Vietnam

• Sommana Yan
• 3 June 2022
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China-based Xiaomi has delivered the first batch of its made-in-Vietnam smartphones, for distribution to the local market and foreign markets –Thailand and Malaysia.

The Chinese electronic giant announced Monday that its smartphones are made in Vietnam by DBG Technology, a subsidiary of Hong Kong’s DBG Electronics Investment Limited, at a factory in northern Thai Nguyen Province.

APPLE also recently moved an iPad factory from China to Vietnam after its production line in China was affected by strict measures of Covid 19 in China, the company’s largest manufacturing facility. (Read more)

The DBG Technology factory only manufactures certain models, it was added.

Nguyen Duc Trong of Digiworld, a Xiaomi authorized reseller in Vietnam, said producing smartphones in Vietnam would help solve issues caused by Covid-19 disruption on the global supply chain.

Xiaomi smartphones are mostly made in China and India by its manufacturing partners, including Foxconn, DBG, BYD and Flex.

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