Two Hundred IT Firms to Attend Huizhou Digital FestivalOver 200 information technology firms from home and abroad have promised to attend an international digital festival scheduled for April 16 to 20 in Huizhou of Guangdong province, south China.Local officials said well-known IT manufacturers in China and other parts of the world account for 70 percent of the firms, including Ericsson, Sony, Motorola, LG, Samsung, Nortel, Hitachi and Siemens. Chinese IT giants scheduled to attend the festival include Huawei, Haier, Legend, TCL and China Telecom. Over 800 products, mostly high-tech digital ones, are to be exhibited at the festival, including computers, lithium batteries, DVD players. Aside from an exhibition of international digital information technology and products, major activities of the festival will include a forum on digitization, an exchange meeting for personnel specialized in digital information and electronic technologies. Huizhou, a city well-known for making electronic and information products, will host the international digital festival in cooperation with the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry and Guangdong Province. The city ranks fifth in the country in terms of electronic industrial output value. Last year, its electronic industrial output value amounted to 42 billion yuan (about US$4.1 billion), accounting for about a half of Huizhou's total industrial output value. |
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