What is a shanzhai?

The word shanzhai has a long history. Guangdong and Hong Kong existed as early as the 1980s. The word shanzhai factory is used to represent a small factory, which is small in scale, single in variety and poor in equipment. Products are not limited to electronic products, and the scope can include many small handicraft manufacturers. Then the shanzhai mobile phone was extended in Guangdong, representing the imitation products of counterfeit brand products. "Shanzhai Machine" is literally interpreted as "Shanzhai"-meaning taking the mountain as the king and escaping from government management. They either take a brand name by the manufacturer himself or imitate the function and style of the brand mobile phone; Because they evade government management and don't pay value-added tax and sales tax. In research and development, most of them are mechanical copies, of course, there are many innovative products, and there is no advertising, promotion and other expenses. Coupled with successful cost control and flexible distribution methods, their terminal retail prices are often only 1/2 to 1/3 of brand mobile phones. Shanzhai machine is also called "three-yard machine". The so-called three-code machine is the IMEI serial code inside the mobile phone, the serial code under the battery on the back of the mobile phone and the serial code on the packaging box, which is "three codes in one". The previous explanation is: shanzhai mobile phones are also called wild mobile phones, black mobile phones or high imitation mobile phones, and with the cancellation of mobile phone licenses, most shanzhai mobile phones seem to be legalized. The manufacturers who assemble these mobile phones are neither underground processing plants nor regular troops. Some low-priced, fully functional labeling machines and mobile phones with various names are also "cottage machines".