In the first quarter, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality assembled 11 million laptops valued at 25.54 billion yuan ($4.06 billion), up 617 percent year on year, according to figures released by the Chongqing Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization.
The majority of the devices were exported, with an export value of 22.18 billion yuan ($3.53 billion), up 7.8 times from a year ago. Chongqing is building itself into a major center for laptop assembly, with its output of the computers estimated to account for 14 percent of the world's total. Chongqing will soon open a new international air cargo route to link itself with the United States and Australia and facilitate delivery of its IT products to the North American and Australian markets. |