China, World Biggest Telecom Product Market (Jun 14)
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China has become the biggest telecom product market in the world, according to sources from the 2nd APEC Investment Expo-"Sino-ROK IT Industry Investment Cooperation Forum" held in Yantai, Shandong Province.
Liu Linru, Deputy-director of Planning Department of the Ministry of Information Industry told that the telephone users across the country has totaled some 2290 million households, of which, 1440 million are fixed phone users and 85.26 million the mobile ones. The rate of telephone popularization in the country has come to 20.1 percent, of which 29 percent go to the urban areas. In addition, 6.7 percent of urban population are the MP users. Today, the number of fixed telephone and the MP users in China ranks the second in the world.
Over the past five years, the national electronic information industry (EII) has kept a stable increase rate of over 20 percent annually with its industrial added values up thrice over the GDP of the same period. The proportion of EII in the GDP rose from 0.8 percent in 1995 to 1.5 percent last year. Meanwhile, the gross industrial production value of EII, mostly the sectors of manufacture and software industry exceeded 1000 billion yuan.
(Peopledaily)
Chinese Consumer Sentiment Continues to Surge (Jun 7)
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Chinese consumer confidence in April rose to the highest level in the last two years, said the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
BMW Targets at China's Car Market (Jun 4)
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A senior executive of German carmaker BMW said recently that BMW is looking to become China's dominant luxury car provider by 2005, China Daily reported Monday. Gunther Seemann, head of BMW's China operations, said the carmaker was confident about China's luxury automobile market because of remarkable rises in income levels and China's imminent entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Three Years See China to Rank World Top Three in PC Market: Microsoft President (May 14)
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In the PC market, Asia is the world fastest growing region yet recent years have seen a rapid development made in China, making it the world forth or fifth place, said Mr. Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., May 10 at the Fortune Global Forum 2001 in Hong Kong. According to him, China is estimated to rise to the world top three in this market in the coming three years.
Ballmer also praised Hong Kong's new copyright rules issued on April 1, 2001. In his opinion, the reform of software must be fully backed by local laws and Hong Kong has done a great deal on this. And such countries and regions in Asia as the mainland of China, Japan, the ROK, China's Hong Kong SAR, and Singapore, will flourish rapidly in the development of science and technology.
He also pointed out that there is a revolution in the conception of science and technology every a few years. The abnormal hot economy a year ago should be attributed to mass misunderstanding that the new sci-tech can fully replace the old one. He believed, only by expanding the sci-tech market can it really make our life more convenient but don't worry that it will replace the human beings.
(Peopledaily)
China Leads PC Sales in Asia-Pacific (May 9)
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Sales of personal computers in the Asia-Pacific region, excluding Japan, rose 14.4 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier to 4.7 million units, led by sales in China, according to latest data released by U.S.-based market-research firm Gartner.
Asia-Pacific personal-computer sales are traditionally slower in the first quarter, but the decline from the fourth quarter of 2000 was a slight 0.1 percent, as strong sales growth in China offset declines elsewhere in the region, Gartner said. It said 1.9 million personal computers were sold in China in the first quarter, up 38 percent from a year earlier.
(Xinhua)
China stands at broadband's gate
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"China is becoming the second-largest DSL marketplace, just after the United States," said Johnson Tsai, technical marketing manager of Texas Instruments China."
China's Fiber Boom: No End in Sight
By Josh Long
phoneplusinternational.com
More than 1.25 million kilometers of fiber-optic cables representing an excess of 30 million kilometers of optical fiber had been installed in China by the end of 2000, according to a report issued by the Boston-based market research firm, Information Gatekeepers Group
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What is more, Yi added, the fact that most telecom infrastructure has never been introduced in China has allowed operators to deploy new technology without fretting over the old stuff
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One striking footnote: Each day last year 170,000 people signed on as new telephone customers, increasing the total number of telephone subscribers to 215 million, according to Information Gatekeepers. The number of telephone lines has tripled from 50 million to 150 million since 1990, according to a spokesman at Lucent Technologies.
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IDC predicts that e-commerce revenues will reach $26 billion in China by 2004, up from $2.1 billion last year. The research firm predicts that the number of Internet users will triple between 2001 and 2004. |
