BEIJING air max soldes pas cher , Dec. 12 (Xinhuanet) -- Well over half the people in China now believe, domestically produced technology brands are as good as foreign ones, as well as offering better value for money, according to a report from the United Kingdom research firm Mintel Group.
Around 3,000 consumers aged 20 to 49 from 10 cities were questioned online with 58 percent saying the quality of home-grown brands was as good as international ones, and 61 percent saying they were satisfied with domestic technology.
"Chinese consumers believed domestic brands represented good value for money, but foreign brands, such as Apple and Samsung, are still viewed as being 'stylish' and 'innovative' air max 180 soldes ," said Huang Can, senior research analyst at Mintel.
In recent years, a growing number of Chinese technology products have been launched featuring innovative solutions at more competitive prices than foreign rivals.
In the mobile phone market, for instance, the country's top six brands-Lenovo, Coolpad, Huawei, ZTE, Xiaomi and TCL-are all Chinese. The top five desktop and laptop computer brands are also Chinese (Lenovo air max 96 soldes , Acer, Asus, Hasee, and Haier), as are the top seven tablet computer brands (Lenovo, Teclast, Onda, Asus, Huawei air max 2019 soldes , Cube, and Acer).
"Consumers make technology purchases based on factors such as good value for money and customer service, but brand attributes such as the perception that a brand is 'high end' are also able to influence purchasing decisions to a large degree," said Huang.
According to the report, 71 percent agreed with the statement "advertisements focusing on brand image gave me a good impression", and 75 percent of respondents agreed that the "brands that a person uses are a reflection of the lifestyle he or she seeks".
Last year, Mintel statistics show, there were 444.7 million units of individual technology product sales including mobile phones, tablets air max 98 soldes , and desktop and laptop computers. The average Chinese household spent 7.2 percent of overall income on technology products, much larger than in markets with a similar level of development.
The report said that number is forecast to hit 513.5 million units sales by the end of 2014, a 15.5 percent rise.
The leading technology brands will be aware of such a large percentage of total household expenditure being spent on their products, said Huang, and the growth of Chinese over foreign brands in recent years means Chinese consumers are still looking for brands that offer value.
A male Xiaomi user called Liu Qin said that Chinese technology companies have developed very fast and are now producing a lot of good products, such as smartphones by Xiaomi and Huawei.
"Compared with other high-priced foreign brands, these domestic brands have proved good value," said Liu, who called himself a long-term Xiaomi smartphone user. "In addition to good functions air max deluxe soldes , their products' design and appearance are also no less exciting than foreign brands."
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LHASA, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- While several Chinese provinces have lowered their growth targets amid an economic downturn, the plateau region of Tibet has maintained a 12-percent growth target for 2015 with strong investment from the central government.
Tibet's gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to hit 92.5 billion yuan (15 billion U.S. dollars) in 2014, maintaining its double-digit growth since 1994, according to an annual government work report delivered by Losang Jamcan, chairman of the regional government, at the opening of the annual regional congress session on Sunday.
Unlike the robust growth in Tibet, the Chinese economy slowed overall in 2014. Analysts estimate that China's GDP could grow 7.3 percent over 2013.
A number of provinces, including Zhejiang air max plus soldes , Gansu and Hebei, lowered their 2015 growth targets by 0.5 to 1 percentage point at earlier provincial economic work conferences due to dampened optimism.
Hebei, which borders Beijing, cut its 2015 growth goal by one percentage point to 7 percent under unprecedented pressure from air pollution controls.
Investment has been the major contributor to growth in Tibet, which has poor infrastructure and a small population.
In 2014, investment from the central government, state-owned enterprises and the private sector reached 35.3 billion yuan, 10 billion yuan and 30 billion yuan, respectively. The combination of the three accounted for 81 percent of Tibet's 2014 GDP air max tn soldes , according to the work report.
Operation of the 251-km Lhasa-Xigaze railway and the Zangmu Hydropower Station in 2014, at a cost of 13.28 billion yuan and 9.6 billion yuan respectively, greatly boosted economic growth in Tibet.
The chairman said fixed-asset investment in the region is expected to surpass 130 billion yuan in 2015, up 20 percent year on year, covering a wide range of infrastructure projects including railways, roads and airport renovations.
The large number of people living in poverty, poor infrastructure and weak industrial development have made the investment-driven approach a reasonable choice for Tibet, said Du Jie, a member of the regional political advisory body and Communist Party chief of the Tibet Academy of Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Sciences.
Tibet still has more than 320 air max soldes ,000 people living under the national poverty line of 2,300 yuan per year, about 10 percent of the regional population. Urbanization in the region hit 25.7 percent in 2014, much lower than the national average of 54 percent.
Although the per capita net income of farmers and herdsmen in the region continued its double-digit growth in the past decade and hit 6,578 yuan in 2013, it is still only 73 percent of the national average.
Another reason for maintaining a high growth target is Tibet's urgent need to catch up with other provinces to fulfill the national goal of building a well-off society by 2020, said Lian Xiangmin