小米手机2014销量增长两倍
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Inc. sold 61.12 million smartphones in 2014, up 227 percent year on year, company founder and chief executive officer (CEO) Lei Jun said Sunday.
中国智能手机生产商小米公司创始人兼总裁雷军周日宣布，2014年小米共售出6112万部手机，销售量年同比增长227%。
Total sales revenue with tax reached 74.3 billion yuan ($12 billion), up 135 percent year on year, Lei said in an open email to the company's employees.
Sales of the brand expanded to six countries and regions over the past year, including Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines.
The company was valued at $45 billion in the new round of financing late December.
The announcement comes as the company released its new model, Redmi 2, on Sunday for 699 yuan, considerably cheaper than its other models.
Xiaomi, which means "millet" in Chinese, was founded in April 2010 by Lei and his friends in Zhongguancun, Beijing's technology hub, which has been called "China's Silicon Valley." Xiaomi's first smartphone debuted on Aug 16, 2011.