China's software outsourcing services market reached 2.592 billion yuan (US$323 million) in the first quarter of 2006, Analysys International said.

Less than six in every 100 mobile phones that China exported last year were home brands, a senior official with the Ministry of Information Industry has said. China exported 228 million mobile phones in 2005, of which only 13.2 million phones, or 5.8 percent, were home brands, said Wang Jianzhang, director of the ministry's general planning department at an international forum on China's mobile phone industry earlier this week.

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