Xinjing News (reporter Liang Chen) August 20, according to Yonhap quoted industry sources, Samsung Electronics in the first half of 2018, China's market sales reached 27.41 trillion won (about 167.3 billion yuan), the first time in the world sales of more than the Americas. However, the driving force is not mobile phones, but electronic components.

Starting in 2013, Samsung's sales in China rose year by year from 18.5% to 32.7% in four and a half years. In the past, the proportion of American sales in the main market dropped to 30.2% in 2017, and only 26% in the first half of 2018.

Korean Associated Press analysis said that the main reason is that Chinese IT companies are mostly the main customers of Samsung memory chips, and the rise of U. S. trade protection policy, Samsung smartphones, television and other products in Europe and the United States sales volume is relatively reduced.

The company's top five customers accounted for 11% of Samsung's total sales in the first half of the year, according to a recent report released by Samsung Electronics. Huawei was the first to enter the list. However, in the second quarter of 2018, Huawei surpassed Apple for the first time, ranking second in the global smartphone market share. For Samsung, HUAWEI is both a competitor and a customer.

In the second quarter of 2018, Samsung Electronics sold only 800,000 mobile phones in China, according to Strategy Analytics, a market research firm.

Since 2018, Samsung has ceased to shut down production plants in China. In May, Samsung Electronics revoked the Shenzhen company and started a liquidation process, with a plan to pay a "severance pay" of 46.1779 million yuan to 94 employees. In August, Samsung Electronics retorted to consider stopping its Tianjin plant because of falling mobile phone sales and higher labor costs.

However, Samsung is increasing its semiconductor investment in China. In March, the two phase of Samsung's China semiconductor storage chip was officially launched in Xi'an. After the first $10 billion investment in 2012, Samsung Electronics signed an investment agreement with the Shaanxi provincial government in 2017 and decided to invest an additional $7 billion. The plant expansion plan ended in 2019.