China's PC Sales up 19.6% in First Quarter
Friday May 24, 12:55 PM
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BEIJING, May 24 Asia Pulse - A total of 2.05 million personal computers were sold in China in the first quarter of this year, up 19.6 per cent over the same period last year, while sales value for the period stood at 17.17 billion yuan (US$2.07 billion), up 15.3 per cent, according to statistics from the country's Ministry of Information Industry (MII).
Laptop computers registered the fastest growth rate among all computer products in terms of both sales volume and sales income, growing by 43.6 per cent and 30.8 per cent respectively. The corresponding figures for PC servers stood at 20.9 per cent and 7.5 per cent, respectively. An important feature in the Spring PC market is that the price of laptops and servers is dropping at a much faster rate than that of desktop computers.
The first three months also witnessed rapid growth in the sales of Mobile PCs - a kind of desktop unit featuring LCD monitors and compact main bodies. Though mobile PCs are still much bigger than laptops, the cheap price (ranging from 6,000 to 8,000 yuan) is quite attractive to low income consumers.
Changes are gradually taking place in the pattern of the domestic PC market. On one hand, the big two, Legend and Founder, still hold nearly 40 per cent of the market. On the other hand, newcomers to the market, such as Dell and Tsinghua Tongfang, are doubling and tripling their sales volume and nibbling away at the market share of those information technology companies backed up by big household appliance makers. |
