Ningbo Bird

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Ningbo Bird or Bodao (宁波波导股份有限公司) is a Chinese manufacturer of mobile phones. Ningbo Bird was the largest vendor of mobile phones in China from 2003 to 2005.^[3]

Key Information

Company type	Public company
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	October 1992 (Fenghua)[1]
Headquarters	Fenghua, China
Key people	Xu Lihua (Chairman) Zhang Zhangxuan (President)[2]
Products	Mobile phones
Website	http://www.chinabird.com/en/about/about.asp
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The company was established in 1992 in Fenghua and, in 1997, became China's largest pager manufacturer. Ningbo Bird started manufacturing mobile phones in 1999. It was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange ([1]) the next year. Seeking to expand into international markets, BIRD International was established in Hong Kong in 2003.

In 2009, Ningbo Bird sold its Shanghai-based operations for 60 million yuan, realising a gain of around 37 million yuan.^[3] In the same year, the company received a government subsidy of 14 million yuan.^[3]

Ningbo Bird has research and development centres in Chongqing, Hangzhou and Ningbo.^[1]

• "How Ningbo Bird Became a High-Flier". Bloomberg Businessweek. 21 January 2003. Archived from the original on February 10, 2003. Retrieved 12 May 2012.

• http://www.chinabird.com/

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