According to a research mobile phone shipments in China fell 17.7% year on year to 33.02 million units in January (CAICT). According to the CAICT, a research institution under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, 30 new models were issued last month, down 43.4 percent from the previous year. Chinese brands continued to dominate the domestic mobile phone market. Their shipments topped 25.65 million units, making up 77.7 percent of the total shipments. In January, Chinese brands rolled out 26 phone models, down 48 percent year on year, the data showed. Last year, China’s mobile phone shipments climbed 13.9…