BEIJING -- The Ministry of Information Industry announced on Tuesday that China exported 130.98 million cellphones in the first five months this year, up 26.5 percent from the same period last year.

Domestic brand exports reached 16.953 million phones, about 13 percent of the total, up 49.6 percent from the same period last year.

The figures indicated that CDMA cellphones were mainly sold abroad. In the first five months, 27.4 million CDMA cell phones were exported, about 84 percent of the total, up 52.8 percent from the same period last year.

ZTE Corporation, a leading provider of telecommunications equipment, recorded the fastest export growth. It exported 4.85 million CDMA cellular phones, about 18 percent of the total.