Propelled by the accelerated growth of the semiconductor markets at home and abroad, sales revenues in China’s IC industry topped the 100 billion Yuan in 2006 for the first time, reaching 100.63 billion Yuan, up by 43.3% year-on-year. The fast-growing packaging and testing industry and the further improvement of the chip making industry became the 2 major flashing points in the development of the IC industry in 2006. CCID Consulting thinks that by 2011, IC sales revenues in China will top 300 billion Yuan, reaching 341.544 billion Yuan. By then, China will become one of the most important IC manufacturing bases in the world.

As big screen displays become more popular worldwide, there will be a general drop in the price of PC LCD monitors in the next year or two.

CCID Consulting forecasts that 26.614 million displays will be sold in China in 2007. Due to product renewal and structural changes, sales revenues will reach 32.63 billion Yuan, up by 11.0%, which represents faster growth than sales volume.

CCID Consulting’s data show that in 2006 China’s IT services market reached a size of 59.5 billion Yuan, up by 17.8% over 2005, demonstrating a good growth momentum. Compared with 2005, there was a big drop in market growth from 2005. However, this was fundamentally different from the slowdown in the growth of the global market, which was an indication that the market was approaching maturity. The slowdown in the growth of China’s IT services market was only a signal of structural adjustment….

In 2006, data communications showed strong growth potentials among numerous telecom services. Fixed operators lost their advantages in voice services. To ease their business pressures, they took broadband as a business for key development, and continued to open new broadband applications. Meanwhile, to change their current services structure, mobile operators further increased the percentage of data services and started to enter the media field and develop the fifth media.

CCID Consulting’s data show that in 2006, China’s smart phone market grew fast after it entered a growth period. For the whole year, sale volume approached 15 million sets, topping 10 million sets for the first time. Sales revenues were close to 40 billion Yuan, up by more than twice that in 2005. Smart phone became a new flashing point in the mobile phone market. CCID Consulting forecasts that competitions in product segments will become a main feature of the smart phone market in the future.

In 2006, the policy environment and government support for information system building in the manufacturing industry reached an unprecedented height. This created an extremely favorable environment for IT applications. CCID Consulting forecasts that in the next 3 years, IT investment in the industry will grow at a CAGR of some 15%. Meanwhile, for the manufacturing industry IT application during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan Period, the Ministry of Science and Technology plans to invest over 5 billion Yuan in the National Manufacturing Industry IT Science and Technology Project.

Profile of CCID Consulting

CCID Consulting Co., Ltd (hereinafter known as CCID Consulting), the first Chinese consulting firm listed in the Growth Enterprise Market of the Stock Exchange (GEM) of Hong Kong (stock code: HK08235), is directly affiliate to China Center for Information Industry Development (hereinafter known as CCID Group). Headquartered in Beijing, CCID Consulting has so far set up branch offices in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Harbin, with over 300 professional consultants and industry experts. The company’s business scope has covered over 200 large and medium-sized cities in China. Apart from home market development, CCID Consulting establishes international cooperation links across the United States, Asia-pacific area and Europe, by setting up agents in the U.S, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Singapore, Italy and Russia, along with the aim to be global.

Based on four major competitiveness of the powerful data channels, industrial resources, intensive knowledge and deep understandings of information technology, CCID Consulting provides customers with consulting, research and IT outsourcing services covering strategy planning, IT application, marketing strategy, human resources and information technology outsourcing. Her customers range from industrial users in IT, telecommunications, energy, finance, automobile, to government departments at all levels and diversified industrial parks. CCID Consulting commits herself to become the No.1 brand for strategy consulting, the No.1 consultant for enterprise management and the No.1 expert for market research.