Japanese media: Chinese children's smart watch market doubles in four years

The September 6th article of the Nikkei Asia Review Website, original topic: The Chinese children's smart watch market has doubled in four years. As the electronic products focusing on the youth groups are becoming more and more popular, the Chinese children's smart watch market doubles within 4 years. Beijing has taken measures to strengthen supervision because they are worried that smart watches are not conducive to children's daily life and study.

In mid -August, a fifth grade elementary school student was looking at a smart watch product in a shopping mall in Guangzhou. She said: "Most students have smart watches." Such products are priced at between 598 yuan and 1998 yuan (pictured). In addition to conventional functions such as telephone, camera, and electronic payment, high -end models can also help users monitor the mild heart rate of the body.

In 2020, China sold a total of 29.9 million children's smart watches, nearly doubled than in 2016. The current market share of Backgammon Electronics exceeds 30%, followed by 20%of Huawei Technology, and Beijing Qibao Technology accounts for about 10%of the market share.

Small genius phone watch can have a high market share, thanks to micro -chat applications. Users only need to put smart watches together to register as friends, send messages to each other, and create groups. The above -mentioned elementary school student said: "I have been chatting with friends with micro -chat." China's online media has noticed that micro -chat is becoming more and more popular, and sources said: "Micro -chat may threaten China's largest instant messaging application. Program WeChat status. "

However, the government is constantly strengthening supervision when smart watches are rapidly popular. Fujian has recently issued regulations that students in kindergarten in primary and secondary schools are prohibited from bringing mobile phones and telephone watches into the classroom, and will be implemented from September 1. According to reports, the Chinese education department has issued a notice that children are prohibited from bringing smart watches to school in principle. Fujian is the first province to clearly prohibit children from bringing phone watches and other electronic equipment (entering campus). A local official said: "The use of smart watches and other electronic devices in school will have a serious impact on normal teaching and physical and mental health development."

In addition, as the (China) children's smart watch market continues to grow, the security concerns of information leakage and health problems have also increased day by day. (Author Chuan Shangzhi, translated by Wang Xiaoxiong)

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