China Electronics Corporation (Chinese: 中国电子信息产业集团; pinyin: Zhōngguó diànzǐ xìnxī chǎnyè jítuán, CEC) is a Chinese state-owned company and one of the largest producers of telecom equipment in China for both civilian and military purposes.

[5][6] At the time, the Philips division had an annual revenue of 400 million euros and 240 employees.

[7] Philips already moved its mobile phones production in China in 2001, when the production, research and development of mobile phones was taken by a joint-venture of Philips and China Electronics Corporation.

[9] In August 2020, the United States Department of Defense published the names of companies with links to the People's Liberation Army operating directly or indirectly in the United States.

[10][11] In November 2020, Donald Trump issued an executive order prohibiting any American company or individual from owning shares in companies that the U.S. Department of Defense has listed as having links to the People's Liberation Army, which included CEC.