Visitors experience laptops at the 2021 World Computing Conference in Changsha, central China's Hunan Province, Sept. 17, 2021. (Xinhua/Chen Sihan)
BEIJING, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- China's personal computer (PC) sales to individual consumers surged in August, boosted by rising demand, an industrial report showed.
China's PC sales to individual consumers reached 2.69 million units in August, up 10.2 percent year on year, according to the report released by global market research firm International Data Corporation.
Laptop sales were especially robust in the back-to-school shopping season, jumping 18.4 percent from a year ago.
However, PC sales for commercial use went down 4.1 percent year on year to 4.97 million units. ■
