China's information technology firms posted a combined profit of 45.1 billion yuan (US$5.6 billion) in the first five months, a 34 percent growth year-on-year and 8.5 percentage points higher than the national industry profit annual growth rate, according to the Ministry of Information Industry.

Domestic handset firms raised exports in the first five months as TCL, AMOI and Lenovo Mobile's phone exports jumped 250 percent year-on-year, said MII.

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