Apple Takes Smartphone Crown in Chinese Villages

(Beijing) — Apple Inc.'s iPhones have become the top-selling smartphones by revenue in China's villages, boosted by rising rural incomes and growing consumer sophistication in those areas, according to an annual survey.

The high-end Apple products surged to the top in this year's ranking of smartphone sales in Chinese villages, following a third-place finish on the same list the previous two years, according to JD.com, China's second-largest e-commerce company.