Things started off looking grim for the iPhone when it went on sale in China in October of this year with sales of only 5000 phones in the first week. Forty days after the initial launch however, China Unicom reported they sold 100,000 iPhones. Now, just twenty days after that 100,000 mark, Dan Butterfield over at iPhonAsia.com is reporting a surge of iPhone sales equaling 200,000 in the last three weeks. That brings China Unicom's iPhone sales to 300,000. in just two months.

This really isn't surprising considering the massive popularity of the iPhone with some of China's neighbors and another pretty big country.

It also looks like China Unicom is putting their money where their mouth is when they said "iPhone will become China's best-selling smartphone." This week they've kicked off a 46-city roadshow tour to promote the iPhone to prospective buyers across the country.

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