China overtook the us to become the world's largest exporter of electronic products

Figure 1:1996-2004 main countries and regions IT product import and export data

Organization headquartered in Paris, world economic cooperation and development (OECD) said recently, China, has surpassed the United States, including PC, DVD, a mobile phone, digital camera, information technology products (information and communications technology ICT, the world's largest exporter).

2004, China, the export of information technology products increased by 46% compared to last year, to $180 billion, exceeding 149 billion of total exports over the same period the United States information technology products of the dollar, the United States in 2004 information technology exports grew by 12% over the previous year. The report notes that since 1996, China's foreign trade in information technology products to an average annual rate of 38%. Total imports and exports of information technology products in China from 1996 to $35 billion, up to $234 billion in 2003, up to $329 billion in 2004. The total import and export volume in 1996 was $230 billion in 2003 to $301 billion in the year of $375 billion in 2004.

Compared with $12 billion in 2003, Chinese, technology products trade surplus increased by nearly two times to $31 billion. Mainland China in 2002 to become a purely scientific and technological products exporting countries, when the technology trade surplus of $3 billion.

China, it is worth noting that, in the hardware manufacturing field is still heavily dependent on imports of electronic components. 2004 China's electronic components trade deficit rose to nearly $62 billion. In 2004, China's imports of electronic components amounted to $97 billion 300 million, while with the development of China's semiconductor manufacturing, exports of electronic components reached 34 billion 900 million u.s..

Figure 2:1996-2004 China mainland ICT products import and export trade deficit

Report pointed out that the electronic components Chinese, notebook computer and mobile phone in the past to the high-grade production required mainly rely on imports from the European Union and the United states. But now, Chinese has been more and more from Japan (Chinese, ICT imports accounted for 18%), Taiwan (16%) China, South Korea (13%) and Malaysia (8%) purchasing these components, resulting in these economies of technology products, trade surplus of China widening.