On June 11, IDC released the "China Wearable Device Market Quarterly Tracking Report", which showed that in the first quarter of 2019, China's wearable device market shipments were 19.5 million units, an increase of 34.7%.
Among them, basic wearables (wearables that do not support third-party applications) grew 25.5% year-on-year, and smart wearables grew 84.6% year-on-year.
The report also shows that in the first quarter of 2019, China's adult watch market shipments of wearable devices were 2.01 million units, an increase of 89.4% year-on-year.
Pan Xuefei, research manager at IDC China, believes that as the wearable device market continues to mature, the adult watch market will have a broad market growth space and become an important part of the IoT ecosystem to connect people and things. eSIM, intelligence and health data analysis are important trends in the future of adult watches.