Information Industry Booming in East China Province

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Information Industry Booming in East China Province

The eastern coastal province of Shandong has developed into a key Chinese information industry base.

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The eastern coastal province of Shandong has developed into a key Chinese information industry base.

Information from the local statistical bureau shows the added value of the province's electronics and information products manufacturing totaled 123.4 billion yuan (14.9 billion US dollars)and the sales were 106.8 billion yuan (12.9 billion US dollars) in 2001.

The sales volume of IT products at the Science and Technology Market on Shanda Road in Jinan City, the provincial capital, reached 5 billion yuan (more than 600 million US dollars) last year. Only the sales of Zhongguancun in Beijing, known as China's "Silicon Valley," and that of Shenzhen, one of China's special economic zones, were larger.

The number of the province's fixed phone users has exceeded 16 million, the second largest in China.

Over the past several years, Shandong invested more than 30 billion yuan (3.6 billion US dollars) in the construction of telecommunications and Internet networks and it has set up an optical cable communication network in every city, county and township in the province and more than 95 percent of its villages.The total length of the province's optical cables is more than 100,000 km, the longest in China.

At present, government departments at the township-level and higher, most large and medium-sized enterprises and more than 4,000 primary schools in the province have access to the Internet. The businesses and services of more than 60 industries including banking, taxation, public security and weather forecasting have all been computerized.

Qilu Software Park, a state-level software industrial base, hasattracted investment from overseas and IBM of the Unites States has made it one of its global bases for training software programmers.

Shandong has nine software enterprises which are among China's top 100 in the electronic sector.

Meanwhile, Shandong has exported locally-made mini computers, color TV sets, mobile phones and new-type electronic devices to other countries and regions.

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