The export volume of China's machinery and electronic products exceeded Germany for the first time and ranked the first worldwide in 2009, but the proportion of high-tech products is small, according to a report released during the ongoing 11th China International Machinery and Electronic Producers Exposition held in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province.

The report, co-issued by the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Machinery and Electronic Products and the office of the organizing committee of this exposition, says China's share of export volume of the world total rose from 3.4 percent during the Ninth Five-Year Plan (1996-2000) period to 8.5 percent during the Tenth Five-Year Plan (2001-2005) period.

In 2006, the export volume surpassed Japan to take the third-place ranking, only next to Germany and the United States and it was bumped up to second, after Germany, in the end of 2008.