China electronic & IT makers - 29.1% suffered losses in 1H 2005

Of the 15,156 enterprises making up the electronic and IT industrial sector in China, 4,405 or 29.1% posted losses for the first half of this year, a year-on-year increase of 3.9 percentage points (pp) from 25.2% for the first half of 2004, according to statistics recently published by the Ministry of Information Industry (MII).

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