Xinhua, Beijing :
A recent news story about a Huawei smartphone, which saved the life of a businessman who was shot by robbers in South Africa, was one of the most read on social media in China.
It has also helped draw fresh attention to Chinese brands or “Made in China” products.
It might be a coincidental or magical episode for Chinese brands in that story, but on the other hands, the “Made in China” products are winning substantial recognition and praises from their users worldwide.
China is turning from a “manufacturing powerhouse” to “a smart, intelligent manufacturing giant,” which is providing the world with brilliant, innovative products and services with high technical and cultural inputs.
According to British newspaper Daily Mail, South African businessman Siraaj Abraham was ambushed by masked raiders late August outside his house in Cape Town, and one of the robbers shot Abraham in the chest from a distance of only two meters.
Thanks to a Huawei P8 Lite smartphone stored in Abraham’s front pocket, which was hit by a 9mm bullet but fended the bullet from entering the 41-year-old man’s body, his life was miraculously saved.
The Huawei smartphone does not have a metal body, but its plastic build managed to stop a flying bullet.
Huawei later presented Abraham with a brand new Huawei P9 Lite to replace his damaged phone, for free.
Advertising giant WPP’s market research unit, Millward Brown, believed that China’s telecom leader Huawei enjoys a growing business presence worldwide, and its smartphones have become a powerful growth engine with soaring popularity and reputation with consumers.
Xiaomi smartphones, which emerged in recent years in China, are also highly sought after overseas. Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi now has gradually entered
Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, India and Brazil, among others, after its products were launched in Taiwan and Hong Kong regions of China in April 2013.
The popularity of OPPO, another Chinese smartphone brand, is steadily growing in Africa and Arab countries like Egypt.
