With two factories in place, Xiaomi makes 1 phone every second in India

In January, Xiaomi announced that it crossed the $1 bn revenue mark in India, reports Tech In Asia

Xiaomi from China. We’ve gotten used to hearing the “from China” suffix after Xiaomi. But that cannot be true anymore in India. Today, the Chinese giant revealed that over 95 percent of the Xiaomi smartphones being sold in India were made in India.

Manu Jain, vice president and managing director of Xiaomi India, declared it while announcing Xiaomi’s new manufacturing plant in Vizag, a coastal city in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, and its latest phone – Redmi 4A.

“We have been able to create employment for more than 5,000 people. Over 90 percent of workforce are women,”