Workers are busy at an electronic switch production and assembly workshop of a subsidiary of Alps Alpine in Wuxi, east China's Jiangsu Province,
China's fixed-asset investment in the electronic information manufacturing sector grew 17.3 percent year on year during the first two months of 2023, official data showed.
The growth rate was 7.3 percentage points higher than that of all industries, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
China's electronic information manufacturing contracted slightly during the two-month period, with the added value of major firms in the sector down 2.6 percent year on year.
Companies in the sector saw their combined operating revenue down 6.5 percent to 1.99 trillion yuan (about 289.59 billion U.S. dollars) from January to February, while their total profits hit 17.06 billion yuan, plunging 77.1 percent year on year, the data also showed.
