Lenovo Group Ltd. said Friday August 3, 2007, it will sell a basic personal computer aimed at China's vast, but poor, rural market and priced as low as $199.

"Our focus is to get down to the rural market," said company spokesman Jay Chen.

The new Lenovo unit will include a processor and a keyboard and will use a buyer's television set as a monitor. The new PC goes on sale later this year at prices of 1,499 to 2,999 yuan ($199-$399).

Approximately 800 million people live in China's countryside, where incomes average about 4,200 yuan ($560) a year but are rising at an annual rate of more than 10 percent.

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