The number of cell phone and fixed phone subscribers in China exceeded 800
million at the end of 2006, Minister of Information Industry Wang Xudong
said in Beijing on Wednesday.
The country's information
industry reported a sales revenue of more than 4 trillion yuan (512.8 billion
U.S. dollars), Wang said.
The information industry also scored a total
export of over 300 billion U.S. dollars last year, the minister said in an
exclusive interview with Xinhua.
The number of Internet subscribers has
surpassed 130 million, he added.
However, the minister said, the
information industry is still in lack of essential competitive power, and it is
an pressing job to improve the capability for innovation.
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