中国将采购美40亿美元IT产品
作者： DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
责任编辑： 阚智
来源： 《电脑商情报》
时间： 2007-05-11 07:10
China agreed to buy U.S. technology valued at more than $4 billion as part of a widely anticipated spending spree on American goods ahead of a visit by top Chinese officials to Washington this month for economic talks.
The 27 purchasing and investment agreements, signed by Chinese and U.S. trade officials and executives in San Francisco, include a deal by Lenovo Group Ltd., China's biggest personal-computer maker, to buy as much as $1.3 billion in software from Microsoft Corp., Lenovo said Thursday. The United States Information Technology Office, an industry group that helped organize the trade forum, said the total value of the contracts and other agreements signed was $4.3 billion. It didn't provide a breakdown of that figure.
The deals come ahead of what is expected to be one of the biggest delegations of top Chinese officials to travel to the U.S. More than a dozen Chinese cabinet-level officials are slated to attend the May 23-24 round of the Strategic Economic Dialogue in Washington -- the second round of a regular series of talks started in December by U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi.
With growing in the U.S. Congress over America's wide trade deficit with China, analysts say Chinese officials are concerned about the reception their delegation will receive. Underlining this anxiety over rising trade tensions, Chinese President Hu Jintao told President George W. Bush in a phone call Wednesday that he hopes the talks will contribute "fresh impetus to China-U.S. economic and trade cooperation," the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Announcing big-ticket deals with American companies has become common practice ahead of trips by top Chinese officials to the U.S. China unveiled about $16 billion in such deals early last year in advance of a visit to the U.S. by Mr. Hu, including an agreement by Lenovo, similar to the one signed this week, to buy $1.2 billion in Microsoft software. A person familiar with the Chinese government's planning said last month that Beijing intended to announce agreements totaling $12.5 billion ahead of this month's economic talks, to buy U.S. goods including soybeans and cotton in addition to machinery and high-tech items.
The 27 purchasing and investment agreements, signed by Chinese and U.S. trade officials and executives in San Francisco, include a deal by Lenovo Group Ltd., China's biggest personal-computer maker, to buy as much as $1.3 billion in software from Microsoft Corp., Lenovo said Thursday. The United States Information Technology Office, an industry group that helped organize the trade forum, said the total value of the contracts and other agreements signed was $4.3 billion. It didn't provide a breakdown of that figure.
The deals come ahead of what is expected to be one of the biggest delegations of top Chinese officials to travel to the U.S. More than a dozen Chinese cabinet-level officials are slated to attend the May 23-24 round of the Strategic Economic Dialogue in Washington -- the second round of a regular series of talks started in December by U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi.
With growing in the U.S. Congress over America's wide trade deficit with China, analysts say Chinese officials are concerned about the reception their delegation will receive. Underlining this anxiety over rising trade tensions, Chinese President Hu Jintao told President George W. Bush in a phone call Wednesday that he hopes the talks will contribute "fresh impetus to China-U.S. economic and trade cooperation," the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Announcing big-ticket deals with American companies has become common practice ahead of trips by top Chinese officials to the U.S. China unveiled about $16 billion in such deals early last year in advance of a visit to the U.S. by Mr. Hu, including an agreement by Lenovo, similar to the one signed this week, to buy $1.2 billion in Microsoft software. A person familiar with the Chinese government's planning said last month that Beijing intended to announce agreements totaling $12.5 billion ahead of this month's economic talks, to buy U.S. goods including soybeans and cotton in addition to machinery and high-tech items.
