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South koren grab China's market
7/8/2003 17:54


South Korean's electornic productors successfully tap the China's mainland market in the resent five years, according to a survey made by the South Korean Electronic Association. Xinhuanet.com reported today
The survey covered ten elecronic categories, comparing the distribution of electronic products from South Koren, Japan, the United States and China Taiwan in the mainland of China.
According to the statistics,South korean witness the most robut growth.
The export quantum of Korean mobile phone and CD driver uprushed from 4.23 million US$ and 5.59US$ in 1998 to 1.92 billion US$ and 0.14 billion US$ respectively in 2002 ranking the top of the market occupation. The liquid-crystal diaplay unnit, the printing circuit board and the phonograph also sees a dramast growth, boasting 1.02 billion US$ and 0.28 billion US$ in export volume, ranking the second and the third place respectively. While his Japanese counterpart dropped from the top to the third .
The United States is in a sluggish situation in the hardware market and Japan still predominat the high-tech products while South Korea and Taiwan takes an active part in the market developing. With the further application of digital techonology and the deploitation of the market, diversification in the China's imported elecronic products is indispensable, according to the analysis by the association.




 Gloria Hua / Shanghai Daily news