estimates that China will be the third largest market for PCs by 2003. IDC predicting total computer sales for the year 2000 to reach 6.37 million, up from 4.93 million units in 1999. IDC says that 120 million Chinese citizens plan on buying a computer in the next two years, and that 20 million people in China will have access to the Internet by the end of this year.

Agence France Presse (5/00)
Desktop computer sales in China rose nearly 11 percent in the first quarter 2000 year on year, while notebook sales were up 8.1 percent. First quarter sales of desktop computers totaled 418,061 units or 435 million dollars, while 93,414 notebook computers were sold during the same period.
Computer companies shipped 1.37 million units during the first quarter, while China-based Legend Computer continued to dominate the market with 26.2 percent of market share followed by Founder with 8.4 percent and IBM with 5.7 percent.