Japan has become the largest source of technology imports in northwest China's Shaanxi Province in the past year with a contracted value of nearly 40 million U.S. dollars, the latest statistics with the provincial department of commerce show.

This represented 77.8 percent of the total technology imports in Shaanxi last year.

Altogether 16 contracts were signed between the province and Japan, statistics show.

In 2005, Shaanxi signed technology import contracts with seven countries and regions, with the United States and the EU ranking second and third in terms of contractual value.

The contractual value between Shaanxi and Japan and the United States made up 96.86 of the total, statistics show.

Source: Xinhua