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Container throughput up in first 4 months

Container throughput at Chinese ports climbed 4.8 percent year-on-year during the first four months of 2023, official data showed. The country's ports handled some 95.43 million twenty-foot equivalent units of containers from January to April, according to the Ministry of Transport. Total cargo throughput at China's ports stood at 5.28 billion metric tons in the same period, up 7.6 percent from the same period in 2022. Cargo throughput for foreign trade rose 8.1 percent year-on-year.

Software industry sees double-digit growth

China's software and information technology service industry reported double-digit growth in revenue and profits in the first four months of the year, data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology showed. Profits expanded 13.8 percent year-on-year to 367.4 billion yuan ($51.77 billion) in the period, while revenue rose 12.8 percent from a year ago to 3.32 trillion yuan, the data showed. Revenue from software products increased by 11.1 percent year-on-year to 818.3 billion yuan in the period. Revenue from industrial software products expanded to 81.48 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 15.1 percent, according to the data.