China's digital industry sales up 9.4% year-on-year: Chinese report

According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, in the first quarter (January to March), China's digital industry sales reached 8.5 trillion former (about 169 trillion yen), up 9.4% from the same period last year.
This was a 4.4 percentage point increase from the previous year. Of these, sales in the manufacturing industry increased by 10.4% and sales in the service industry increased by 8.2%. During the same period, the performance of key industries in the digital industry was favorable. In particular, the electronic information
The information-related manufacturing industry is recovering steadily, and the added value of computer communications and other electronic equipment manufacturing industries above a certain size (annual main operating revenue of 20 million yen or more) increased by 11% year-on-year.
Software sales rose 10.6% to 3.1 trillion yen, driven by emerging businesses such as artificial intelligence and cloud platforms.
In addition, according to publicly available data, the number of 5G base stations installed in China had reached 4.395 million as of the end of March, and the upgrade of the communication network to 5G-A is accelerating.
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