SHANGHAI, March 31 (Xinhua) -- Tech giant Foxconn Industrial Internet (Fii) earned a net profit of 18.6 billion yuan (2.62 billion U.S. dollars) in 2019, up 10.1 percent year on year.
Its revenue totalled 408.7 billion yuan last year, an annual decrease of 1.6 percent, the Shenzhen-based company said in its annual report filed to the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Of all, the company raked in a revenue of about 244.6 billion yuan from the communication and mobile network equipment business, 162.9 billion yuan from cloud computing and 624 million yuan from technological services like precision tools, industrial robots and industrial internet.
The company invested more than 9.4 billion yuan in research and development in 2019, up 4.8 percent from a year ago.
Fii's shares closed the morning trade 2.89 percent higher in Shanghai on Tuesday when the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index edged up 0.42 percent.
Foxconn Industrial Internet is a subsidiary of Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., which is the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer and a major supplier for Apple Inc. It was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and raised 26.72 billion yuan in June 2018.
