China surpasses us as the world's largest PC consumer market

In the last quarter, China may have overtaken the US as the world's largest consumer of personal computers.　　The United States has ruled the computer market, which is dominated by Apple and IB M, for 30 years. The second-quarter shipments of China's PCs rose by 14% to 18.5 million, while shipments in the US fell by 14.8% to 17.7 million ——— it was the first time China overtook the US, said analyst M A of the ID C research company in an interview.　　Throughout the year, China is likely to overtake the US in 2012 years. The forecasts show the growing importance of Chinese consumers to the global economy. In 2009 China had overtaken the US as the world's largest auto consumer market.　　Hewlett-Packard, the world's biggest PC maker, said this month that it might quit its computer business, while Lenovo in China announced a nearly-doubling of its sales of computers. "Just like the car market, it's going to happen sooner or later," said N Agaham, chief economist at the company's first Life Economics institute in Tokyo, "China has a huge population base and their incomes are increasing."　　"The total value of computer shipments in China in the second quarter was $11.9 billion trillion, while the US total value was $11.7 billion trillion, said m a of ID C." Source: Bloomberg Translation: Liu