This Day, That Year
Item from Oct 14, 1994, in China Daily: A technician tests monitors on the production line at Qinggang Electronics Co Ltd in Zhejiang province ... China has become one of the world's key producers of domestic electrical appliances, according to the Beijing-based newspaper Consumers' Times ...
The annual output value of the household electrical appliance industry rose from 860 million yuan in 1980 to 5.9 billion yuan in 1985 and 50 billion yuan last year ... Exports of household appliances went up from $40.82 million in 1980 to $84 million in 1985 and $1.35 billion last year.
The annual output of China's manufacturing sector accounted for about one-quarter of the world's total last year, according to a report by the National Development and Reform Commission. China has been the world's largest manufacturer since 2010.
