(Reuters) -Extra Chinese language businesses and state-backed corporations throughout the nation have requested their employees to not carry Apple iPhones and different international gadgets to work, Bloomberg Information reported on Friday, citing individuals conversant in the matter.

For over a decade, China has been in search of to cut back reliance on international applied sciences, asking state-affiliated corporations similar to banks to change to native software program and selling home semiconductor chip manufacturing.

A number of state corporations and authorities departments throughout no less than eight provinces have instructed staff previously month or two to start out carrying native manufacturers, the Bloomberg Information report mentioned.

Apple didn’t instantly reply to Reuters’ request for a remark.

In December, smaller corporations and businesses in lower-tier cities from provinces together with Zhejiang, Shandong, Liaoning and central Hebei, which homes the world’s largest iPhone manufacturing unit, issued their very own verbal directives, the Bloomberg Information report mentioned.

Reuters reported in September that employees in no less than three ministries and authorities our bodies had been instructed to not use iPhones at work.

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