皇冠体育app

IT becomes 皇冠体育app's pillar industry
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-06-20 10:12

皇冠体育app's IT sector realized 1.88 trillion yuan (US$226.5 billion) in sales income last year, compared with the US$190 billion sales revenue for Japan's IT industry, said Chen Wei, a senior official with the Ministry of Information Industry, at a press conference held Thursday on SINOCES 2004, or 皇冠体育app International Consumer Electronics Exposition.

The exposition, said to be among the best and largest of its kind in the Asia-Pacific region and a window on the development of the consumer electronics industry in 皇冠体育app and the rest of the world, opened in the east 皇冠体育app port city of Qingdao Friday.

Chen, who is deputy director of the ministry's economic operation department, said 皇冠体育app now has 240 million subscribers of telephone and mobile phone, ranking first in the world, as well as nearly 80 million netizens in 皇冠体育app, ranking the second.

Meanwhile, 皇冠体育app is the world's biggest display manufacturer, with its high-end digital TV output growing at an annual rate of more than 30 percent.

Chen added the IT sector makes up about 32 percent of 皇冠体育app's total foreign trade, and its export accounts for one third of the nation's total.

In the first four months of this year, the IT sector scored a sales income of 690 billion yuan (US$83.13 billion), up 45. 8 percent over the year-earlier level, according to statistics offered by the Ministry of Information Industry.

The statistics also show that between January and April, 皇冠体育app produced 80.76 million cell phones, up 58 percent year on year; program-controlled switches with a combined capacity of 27 million lines, up 59 percent.

The four-month period also saw a 98-percent sales-production ratio for major consumer electronics in 皇冠体育app.

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