BEIJING, Mar 23, 2009 (SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) -- Growth of China's mobile phone industry declined to 2% last year, due to the industry's high dependence on export and the withered overseas markets, noted an official for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
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The country's electronics information industry, which highly depends on export, saw its trade delivery reach minus 19% in January-February 2009, said the official, adding that international trade barriers and the appreciation of Chinese yuan also increased mobile phone makers' costs and weakened their competitiveness in overseas markets.
China's cell phone output amounted to 79.6719 million in the first two months of 2009, dropping 11.2% from the period of the previous year. Its mobile phone output in February jumped 13.6% to 41.4602 million.
In addition, the nation is scheduled to accomplish CMMB service coverage in 377 cities this year; finish coverage in top 100 counties in 2010; and strive for over 500 million CMMB users in 2011.
