Venezuela advances in telecommunications sector in cooperation with China: Maduro

Venezuela is advancing in the telecommunications sector and expanding its domestic production lines thanks to the cooperation agreements signed with China, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Wednesday. During a government event held in the northwestern state of Falcon, the president said that all Venezuelans must have access to "high technology" and that this need has increased in the last few years after two plants were installed in cooperation with Chinese companies. Maduro inaugurated a second production line of the state-owned VIT electronic equipment company that will manufacture over 150,000 servers, desktop computers, laptops and tablets and increase the capacity of the plant to nearly 400,000 units per year. More…