BEIJING, April 15 (Xinhua) -- China, the world's
biggest manufacturer of electronics and information technology (IT) products,
said Wednesday it will boost the industry's development to create more than 1.5
million new jobs in three years.
The electronics and IT sector is expected to
contribute at least 0.7 percentage points to China's annual gross domestic
product (GDP) growth from 2009 to 2011, compared with 0.8 percentage points last
year, according to a document approved by the State Council and published on the
government Web site.
That will provide new jobs for nearly 1 million
college graduates, which are included in the total 1.5 million targeted
vacancies, said the document.
China's electronics and IT products sales surged at
an average annual rate of 28 percent from 2001 to 2007, but slowed sharply to
12.5 percent last year amid the economic downturn.
Sales in 2008 totaled 6.3 trillion yuan (920 billion
U.S. dollars), with exports reaching 521.8 billion U.S. dollars, or 36.5 percent
of the country's total export value.
The government announced a support plan for the
industry in February. The Wednesday document made clear details of the plan.
The government will boost the industry by increasing
state investment, credit support and export tax rebates, said the document.
It also pledged to expand the domestic market for the
industry and encourage innovation and restructuring.
In the next three years, the country aims to achieve
technological breakthroughs in strategic domains of the industry such as
integrate circuits, new-type displays and software, according to the document.
For instance, revenues from software and information
service sectors will take up 15 percent of the industry's total, up from the
current 12 percent.
In addition, fresh growth will be cultivated in such
fields as digital TVs and the new generation of mobile communications and
Internet.
The government said it will vigorously promote the
overseas commercial use of its domestically-developed TD-SCDMA standard for the
high-speed third-generation mobile communications.
BEIJING, Feb.
18 (Xinhua) -- China approved Wednesday a support plan for the country's
electronics and information industry.
The government will boost innovation, increase financial input and promote
the use of information technologies in various fields in the next three years,
according to an executive meeting of the State Council, or the Cabinet. The
meeting was chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao.
BEIJING, March 31 (Xinhua) --
China's electronics and information industry reported a fixed assets investment
of 30.7 billion yuan (4.5 billion U.S. dollars) in January and February, up 25.6
percent year on year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said
Tuesday.
The growth was 5.1 percentage points higher than the same period last year,
the ministry said in a Web statement, but it did not cite reasons for the
investment rise.
