China's Largest Compact Disc Plant Operational

HANGZHOU, February 6 (Xinhua) -- Four state-of- the-art rewritable compact disc (CD-R) production lines went into operation at the Daziran Co., Ltd. in Hangzhou, making it the largest CD-R producer in China.

The company, in the capital of Zhejiang Province in east China,now has an annual capacity of 65 million rewritable compact discs.

Company officials said that Daziran will spend 60 million yuan (7.2 million U.S. dollars) this year to further expand its annual capacity to 100 million discs.

The company will also speed up the technical renovation project for the production of eight million DVD-R a year.

Industrial sources estimated China's domestic demand for rewritable compact discs will soar from the current 250 million pieces to one billion by 2005.

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Xinhua News Agency