The figure is truly symptomatic, especially if read in the light of two very recent events that have animated the technology industry: Google acquiring Motorola e HP coming out (in all probability) from the well-worn PC business. And so, in the immense Chinese market, Apple beats Lenovo in terms of turnover: which means that smart devices (such as the iPhone and iPad) put the PC aside, even in a market where the demand for the latter appears less saturated than the Europe or the USA.
However, Lenovo is in good shape: in China, in the second quarter of 2011, it increased its sales by 23,4% compared to a year earlier, reaching 2,8 billion dollars in turnover. It remains firmly the leading company in its target market. Yet now the primacy belongs to Apple: its sales in the second quarter of the year increased significantly, reaching 3,8 billion dollars (including Hong Kong and Taiwan, which Lenovo deducts from its data: but the gap of 1 billion, according to many analysts, it would not be filled by including Lenovo's sales in those two markets).