Interview: Dell executive sees bright future in China market

Dell Inc., one of the world's major personal computer (PC) makers, foresees a bright future in China, which is already the second largest market for the company, a Dell executive has said.

"China is expected to become the largest PC market in the world by 2015. Needless to say there are many opportunities to grow," Amit Midha, president of Dell China, told Xinhua in a recent written interview.

Eleven years after Dell entered China in 1998, the company has established a solid footprint and is enjoying strong growth in the market.

"Dell's China business has regularly outperformed the overall industry in China as well as our businesses in other parts of the world," Midha noted.

Last year, Dell increased its units shipped in China four times faster than the rest of the industry, has taken over the No. 1 position in servers with its highest share in recent history, he said.

"We continue to have great momentum within China's growing data centers. Storage also is showing strong momentum as our Equa lLogic business continues to grow in double digits on a sequential basis," added Midha.

Speaking to reporters in Hong Kong in October, Steve Schuckenbrock, president of large enterprise for Dell, said China was a "bright spot" for the company amid the information industry's slump.

All of Dell's businesses saw "relatively significant" growth in the first half of this year compared with the same period in 2008,Schuckenbrock said.

Midha believed that in addition to Chinese government's stimulus spending, "our results owe more to investments we have made in China, as well as the region's overall appetite for information technology."