The overall development of China’s computer industry is stable, and the localization of new technologies has become a development trend.

  China News Service, Changsha, September 11th (Fu Jingyi) The overall development of China’s computer manufacturing industry was relatively stable in 2018-2019. The added value in 2018 increased by 9.5% year-on-year, and in the first half of 2019 it increased by 3.1% year-on-year. However, due to objective factors, the overall industry profits declined to some extent. At present, new technology and localization are leading the development of computer industry in China.

  On September 10th, 2019 World Computer Congress opened in Changsha, Hunan. The picture shows visitors experiencing video games. China News Service reporter Yang Huafeng photo

  At the 2019 World Computer Congress held in Changsha, Hunan Province on the 11th, Xiang Chunlei, Deputy Secretary-General of China Computer Industry Association, released the Report on the Development of Computer Industry in China in 2018-2019, which comprehensively and deeply analyzed the development status and trends of computer industry in China.

  Xiang Chunlei said that from the perspective of industry segmentation, the PC market in China is expected to show a negative growth trend in the next three years. The data shows that in 2018, the global PC shipments reached 259.4 million units, down 1.3% compared with 2017, while the shipments in China market reached 53.318 million units, down 3.4%. In the first half of 2019, the shipments in China market continued to decline.

  In 2018, the shipment of tablet PCs was 10.82 million units, slightly higher than that in 2018. Among the top five brands, China enterprises Huawei, Xiaomi and Lenovo accounted for three. However, under the impact of large-screen mobile phones, the development of tablet PC market in China will continue to be sluggish, and the brand pattern will also tend to be stable.

  Affected by government informationization, industry Internet and digital transformation, the server market is growing strongly. In 2018, the global server growth trend reached 5%, and the shipment reached 12.42 million units, of which China shipped 3,304,300 units, up 26.1% year-on-year.

  Since 2018, China has attached importance to the development of domestic industrial software. The industrial software market in China has grown rapidly, with an output value of 163.39 billion yuan, up 16% year-on-year. State-owned brands such as Zhongwang Longteng, Digital Dafang and Zhejiang Zhongkong have developed rapidly, which will be the highlight of China’s industrial software.

  At present, the computer industry is entering the era of intelligence, and a new ecosystem of the industry is also gestating. It is the general trend that the computer industry chain is diversified in innovation, open source integration, application-driven and system integration. Xiang Chunlei introduced that new technologies such as 5G, cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence will create new opportunities for the development of the computer industry; New technologies such as high-performance computing, memory computing, quantum computing and internal brain computing will bring revolutionary changes to the development of computer industry in China.

  Xiang Chunlei said that localization is also promoting the development of China’s computer industry. The trade conflict between China and the United States has brought new impetus to the development of domestic chips, operating systems, industrial software and supercomputers. The "self-control" of the key development is that the core technologies, key components and all kinds of software should be basically localized. (End)