SME to spend 500b yuan on IT products   (Xinhua)  Updated: 2006-07-19 17:09  
China's small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) are likely to spend 500 
billion yuan on IT products in the next two years, according to a report 
released by a research company. 
The IT expenditure by the companies is expected to grow 16.5 percent this 
year over last year to 142.77 billion yuan.  
Expenditure will likely rise to 186.92 billion yuan in 2008, said the report 
released by the China Center for Information Industry Development 
Consulting. 
Spending on computer hardware accounted for 67.6 percent in last year's IT 
spending by SMEs but its rate of growth is lower than that of the IT market as a 
whole. IT services grew by 20 percent last year, said the 
report.   (For more biz stories, please visit Industry Updates)  
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