Hewlett-Packard Corp, the world's largest PC maker by shipment volume, has announced its expansion plans for China on Wednesday.

Although the company declined to disclose the amount of its new investment, it announced it has assigned two executives to lead the Chinese unit.

Leo Apotheker, HP chief executive officer, told a news conference in Beijing that the company will place greater emphasis on cloud computing (using the Internet as a hard drive), software and wireless devices such as tablet PCs this year to boost its growth in China.