A total of 922,200 laptops were sold in China in the first quarter of this year, up 38.9 percent over last year, the China Securities Journal reported last week.

According to a report by the CCID Consulting, a leading consulting company in China, the sales volume reached 8.951 billion yuan (US$1.1 billion), up 23 percent on the previous year, much higher than the growth rate of desktop computers and servers in the same period.

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