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China Daily | Updated: 2008-10-10 07:44

Oct 10, 1983

Computerization of Shanghai's industry

Shanghai is now using more than 1,600 computers in its machine-building, chemical, metallurgy, transportation, textile and light industries and service trades, according to local computer experts.

For example, the Shanghai No 6 Weaving Mill which has been using computers to monitor its 460 jet looms, has raised the output by 10 percent, while the Shanghai Railway Station - which handles more than 90,000 passengers a day - has also been computerized this year.

Meanwhile, computer centers have been set up in many research institutions, institutions of higher learning and industrial enterprises.

Microwave telephone link opens

A Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong microwave communications system opened recently, as Cao Weilian, deputy director of the Hong Kong Branch of Xinhua News Agency, made the first phone call via the system to Li Jian'an, deputy governor of Guangdong province.

Cao said the new system will eventually become part of the east-central-north China telecommunications network.

The system can handle 2,700 telephone calls simultaneously, a nine-fold increase over that of the coaxial cable used for the past decade.