China's IT Industry Continues to Grow FastChina's telecommunications operation and service sectors saw a robust 27.1 percent growth of revenue in the first five months of this year, official figures show.According to Cheng Guanghui, spokesman of the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), telecom operation and service sectors reaped in 123.47 billion yuan of revenue during January to May. Cheng told a press conference this morning that sales turnover of the manufacturing sector of IT products soared 32.7 percent to 200.7 billion yuan in the five-month period. Meanwhile, exports of IT products jumped by 43.5 percent on yearly basis to 59.94 billion yuan. In the five-month period, China turned out 2.08 million personal computers, more than doubling the figure for the same period of last year, Cheng said. During the period, China also produced 18.86 million cellular phones, 143.3 percent more than the same period last year. |
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