In front of the school on Wednesday, as students exercised in their blue-and-white track-suit uniforms, 18-year-old Zhang Tianyu said he wasn't deterred.
The largest Chinese domestic handset original equipment manufacturer (OEM) is now Tianyu Communication Equipment Co. in Beijing, according to Analysys International, a Chinese market data firm.
Tianyu achieved a 7.5% share of nearly 60 million handsets (or about 4.1 million) shipped in China in Q1, ranking third after Nokia and Samsung Electronics Corp. (together these two global giants have over 50% of the market).