With the breakthrough in plasma key technology and increased production, domestic colour TV companies in China are rewriting the situation of flat panel tv market. Recently, the Ministry of Industry and China Video Ind Association released a group of statistics which revealed that during the first half of 2008, the sales volume of plasma TVs in domestic market was 810,000, more than the total sales through the whole year of 2007, and an effective increase of 202.7% over the same period last year. What's more, the monthly sales volume of plasma TVs during the Olympic session still kept growing. Monitoring data from 1200 colour TV sales outlets in 180 cities issued by the market research institute, All View Consulting Ltd (AVC), showed that in July, the sales volume of colour TVs in domestic market increased 150% over last year with a growth rate of around 35%. In 2007, the sales volume of LCD TVs in domestic market reached around 7.8M, however that of plasma TVs was less than 0.8M.
