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Shanzhai Ji (Cell Phone) Grow Up in China
Date back to 2007, due to an open(maybe leak?) source of MTK platfrom (a wireless communication development platform), there are millions of cell phone factories burst out in south China.
These factories made lots of famous-brand cell-phone-copies in a short period of time. They just copied the outline and software design from Nokia, Apple iPhone etc.
The manufacturing cost is very low so many people are involved. However, these cell phones are not all completely copied. They are even totally redesigned and added a lot of features. A brand called "NCIKA" even went very popular in China.
People're even joking that the farmers in big mountains can develop and design a cell phone and these phones was called "Shanzhai Ji" (In Chinese , "Shanzhai" means "little mountain village"; "Ji" means machine, here means cell phone;) and then the name is widespread in China.
Since then, many funny/weird stuff from ordinary people are called "shanzhai" something.
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