| China's New Generation of High-Tech Manufacturing
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Date:2004-05-12
From:http://www.chinatechnews.com/
The next generation of the high-tech electronics business is becoming the new generation of manufacturing in China. The high-profile trade dispute with the United States over semiconductor tariffs and licensing shows that China's emerging electronics sector is becoming a competitor as well as a part |
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| SIA Urges China to Take Early Action to Eliminate Discrimination in Value Added Tax
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Date:2004-05-27
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The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today called upon China to utilize the dispute resolution process of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to bring about an early resolution of the dispute over China¡¯s value added tax (VAT) on imported semiconductors.
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| China to become world's largest IT market
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Date:2004-06-07
From:Xinhua
China is expected to become the largest information technology (IT) market in the world in the next five years, according to an official from the Ministry of Information Industry (MII).
Guo Fuhua, deputy director of the policy regulating department under the MII, said earlier this wee |
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| Chinese TV makers moving overseas
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Date:2004-06-02
From:China Business Weekly
Facing the rising challenge of dumping accusations, Chinese TV set manufacturers are expanding their overseas production bases to detour trade barriers.
Shenzhen-based Konka Group Co Ltd - the leading colour TV manufacturer in China, has taken the recent step of setting up a colour T |
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| Chinese supercomputer headed to top ranks
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Date:2004-06-16
From:CNET News.com
June 4, 2004 -- A Chinese supercomputer, the Dawning 4000A, is expected to rank high on an upcoming list of the fastest machines, underscoring geopolitical effects of a new approach to high-performance computing.
Dawning Information Industry, a Chinese company that makes everything f |
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| Investment in China surges in spite of calls for slowdown
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Date:2004-06-21
From:BLOOMBERG & China Daily
Investment in China surges in spite of calls for slowdown
BLOOMBERG
June 15, 2004 -- China reported an acceleration in foreign direct investment, suggesting government measures to slow the economy aren't prompting overseas companies to scale back their expansion plans.
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| Chinese Manufacturers Emerge as Global Force
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Date:2004-06-29
From:By Len Jelinek -- Electronic News
Over the last two years, market analysts have predicted that the rapid increase in Chinese foundry production would drive the global semiconductor market into a disastrous state of overcapacity. Although this still may come to pass, the aggressive expansion of the Chinese foundries so far has achiev |
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| China's Plans to Rein in Its Overheated Economy Will Have Little Impact on the IT Industry, According to IDC
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Date:2004-06-29
From:http://www.idc.com.cn/Press/epress_show.php?id=138
China¡¯s economy has seen rapid growth over the past ten years, reaching its peak in 2003 at 9.1%. However, recent signs of over-investment in some industries have led the Chinese government to announce a series of macro-economic policy changes aimed at regulating China's soaring economy. IDC mainta |
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| China draws more foreign investment in 1st half
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Date:2004-07-14
From:Xinhuanet
BEIJING, July 13 -- China has attracted 12 percent more foreign investment in the first half of this year compared with the same period of last year, with the total foreign investment reaching 34 bilion US dollars.
China has also approved the creation of about 21,000 foreign ent |
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| New law to stimulate country's foreign trade
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Date:2004-07-16
From:LU HAOTING,China Business Weekly staff
2004-07-16
Mr Zhang wishes he had more than two hands to do his work since the introduction of the nation's new Foreign Trade Law on July 1.
"Every day about 60 applicants come to register as foreign trade operators,?said Zhang, a registrar at the Beijing Municipal Bureau |
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| China's LCD TV Market Will Grow Rapidly from 2007
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Date:2004-07-20
From:Yasuhiro Kudo, Staff Editor, Nikkei Microdevices
Updated July.20,2004,
"China's LCD TV market will start to expand from 2007," David Hsieh, director of market research company DisplaySearch, said at a seminar featuring Chinese semiconductor and display industries held in Tokyo recently.
He foresees that the Chinese |
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| China to call the shots in tech?
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Date:2004-08-03
From:By Tony Hallett, Special to CNETAsia
July 29, 2004 -- The size and ambition of the Chinese tech market will in the future mean it doesn't determine only the standards that get used in that country but those that get green-lighted around the world.
In research considering China's moves in areas such as operating systems, |
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| CEPA exhibition set for 10 cities
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Date:2004-08-14
From:www.chinaview.cn
HONG KONG, Aug. 11 (Xinhuanet) -- Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government has launched a second round of roving exhibitions promoting the Chinese mainland/Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA) in the Chinese mainland.
The tour will visit 10 C |
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| China denies 'Asian standard' for Linux
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Date:2004-08-18
From:By Zhu Boru (China Business Weekly)
(Updated:August.18,2004) China has never intended to develop an isolated Asian standard for Linux, which some Japanese industry executives fear, said a senior Chinese Government official last week.
"We have never promoted a so-called 'Asian standard' in Linux development," |
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| Regulation clarifies key forex matters
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Date:2004-08-20
From:www.chinaview.cn
BEIJING, Aug. 20 (Xinhuanet) -- China's foreign exchange regulator released a new regulation yesterday to clarify key forex procedure for the nation's growing ranks of individual traders, according to Friday's China Daily.
The rule has been seen as a step forward by the authoriti |
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| China¡¯s seven-month IT export/import value up 48.7% on-year
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Date:2004-08-24
From:Lisa Tsai, Taipei; Adam Hwang, DigiTimes.com
China¡¯s seven-month IT export/import value up 48.7% on-year
Lisa Tsai, Taipei; Adam Hwang, DigiTimes.com
August 16, 2004 -- China¡¯s total exports and imports of IT products for the first seven months of this year reached US$170.26 billion, a year-on-year rise of 48.7%, accord |
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| Manufacturing boom on mainland enhances HK role as supply-chain hub
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Date:2004-09-03
From:China Daily, HK Edition
(uploaded Sept.03,2004)The mainland's manufacturing boom is having a knock-on effect on Hong Kong, enhancing the territory's role as a supply chain hub as companies strive to make low-priced mainland goods attractive to international consumers.
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| Auto Sales in China Expected to Reach 5.15 Million in 2004: Fuji-Keizai Survey
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Date:2004-09-07
From:Koji Kariatsumari, Staff Editor, Nikkei Electronics
(Uploaded Sept.07,2004) -- Fuji-Keizai Co, Ltd has conducted a survey of the automobile and automotive parts markets in China and compiled a report on the outlook of passenger cars and automotive parts markets for 2004.
The survey results show that car production in China in 2003 rose |
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| US companies making profits in China
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Date:2004-09-18
From:China Daily
(Uploaded Sept.18,2004)
Twice the number of US companies are planning to expand business in China compared with last year, according to the American Business in China White Paper.
The report by the American Chamber of Commerce in China (AmCham-China) and AmCham Shangha |
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| China to encourage growth of private sector
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Date:2004-10-26
From:CCTV.com
(Uploaded:Oct.26,2004)
-----China to encourage growth of private sector
Sources from the Chinese Commerce Ministry revealed on Sunday that China will further promote the growth in the private sector, and help Chinese businesses break into the international market.
The s |
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| Hi-tech products exports soar for 30 months
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Date:2004-11-10
From:XinhuaNet
(Uploaded:Nov.11)
Exports of China's hi-tech products have been soaring since April 2002, with a year-to-year growth rate exceeding 40 percent for 30 consecutive months through September, according to the Ministry of Commerce (MOC).
Export volume of hi-tech products reached 112 |
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| China becomes target for dumping charges
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Date:2004-11-23
From:www.chinaview.cn
(Uploaded:Nov.23,2004)
BEIJING, Nov. 23 (Xinhuanet) -- Sources from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce say the country's exporters are facing more and more dumping charges from foreign countries and regions, reported CCTV.com on Tuesday.
They add that this has become a maj |
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| China to see 8% growth in 2005: OECD
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Date:2004-12-01
From:www.chinaview.cn
PARIS, Nov. 30 (Xinhuanet) -- The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has predicted that the Chinese economy would grow by 8 percent in 2005, saying a restrictive economic policy would lead to a slowdown.
"After a period of rapid expansion that cont |
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| China's top 10 trading provinces
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Date:2004-12-04
From:Xinhuanet
BEIJING, Dec. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- Foreign trade volumes of China's top ten trading provinces and municipalities from January to October 2004, with the value in million US dollars and change on ayear-on-year basis:
Province Total Change Exports Change Imports Change
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| Manufacturing investment pouring into Tianjin
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Date:2004-12-08
From:By Lao Tian (China Daily)
(Uploaded 8 Decemeber, 2004) -- TIANJIN: Manufacturing remains the sector where most foreign investment is flocking to this northern port city.
Around 75 per cent of industrial investment in Tianjin between January and August this year went to manufacturing, according to figures from the Ti |
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| China-NZ bilateral FTA talks promising
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Date:2004-12-10
From:Business Weekly -ChinaDaily.com.cn
(Uploaded Dec.10,2004) Free trade negotiations between China and New Zealand are expected to proceed smoothly, due to the nations' highly complementary economies.
Media have reported the first round of the free trade area (FTA) negotiations is expected to be held in Beijing this week. |
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| How do foreigners pay IIT?
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Date:2004-12-17
From:Business Weekly
China's Individual Income Tax Law (IIT Law) was originally adopted by the National People's Congress (NPC) on September 10, 1980, and amended by the Standing Committee of the NPC first on October 31, 1993, and again on August 30, 1999.
On January 28, 1994, the State Council of China's |
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| World celebrates 'made-in-China' Christmas
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Date:2004-12-21
From:http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/
(Updated: 2004-12-21)
Father Christmas's grotto is not an icy cave in Lapland but the economic heart of southern China, where almost two-thirds of the world's Christmas trees and decorations are made.
In factories staffed by predominantly Buddhist workers who have scarcely any |
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| China launches new generation Internet!
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Date:2004-12-27
From:By Liu Baijia (China Daily)
Updated: 2004-12-27
With the launch of the first backbone network of the next-generation Internet in China, the country is expected to dramatically narrow its gap with the world's leaders, officials and experts said.
Eight departments of the Chinese Government announced on Sat |
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| Pakistan, China pledge to set up free trade area
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Date:2004-12-30
From:XU BINGLAN and JIANG JINGJING,China Business Weekly staff
Update:2004-12-28
China and Pakistan are poised to widen the silk road between them by building a free trade area (FTA).
For Pakistanis, it is mainly a "cotton road.?
Currently, 70 per cent of Pakistani exports to China are cotton yarn and cotton fabric. |
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| China jumps to be world third largest trader
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Date:2005-01-12
From:By Zhang Jin (China Daily)
(Updated: 2005-01-11)China registered a 35.7 per cent surge in foreign trade last year, accounting for US$1.15 trillion exchanged, to become the world's third largest trading power behind the United States and Germany.
According to the Ministry of Commerce, exports last year balloone |
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| China - New target of Section 337
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Date:2005-01-21
From:ZHAO RENFENG,China Business Weekly staff
(Updated:2005-1-21)Chinese companies are set to feel the strong power of the Section 337 investigation in the new year, as more patent-based complaints are expected to be filed at the US International Trade Commission (ITC) against Chinese companies, according to industry experts and lawyers.
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| Czech Republic seeks co-operation with China
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Date:2005-01-28
From:JIANG JINGJING,China Business Weekly
(Updated:2005-01-27) When thinking about the Czech Republic, most Chinese people would think of the famous movie, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and the city's beautiful views and architecture.
However, the modern Czech wants to impress China as an industrialized count |
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| Expert: China overtakes US as world's top consumer
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Date:2005-02-17
From:http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/
(Updated: 2005-02-17)China has replaced the United States as the world's top consumer, eclipsing the world's richest economy in consumption of four of the five basic food, energy and industrial commodities, a global environmental think tank said.
Growing at a rapid rate, China has ta |
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| Workers call job and wage shots
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Date:2005-02-24
From:China Daily
(Updated: 2005-02-24)Decently dressed, 21-year-old Cao Degao had an air of confidence as he sauntered around a job fair organized by the Guangzhou Labour Market Service Centre.
And far from being hungry for any job on offer, Cao, who has worked in Foshan, a city in Guangdong, as an e |
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| Shanghai leads cities in competitiveness
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Date:2005-03-18
From:By Zhao Huanxin (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-03-18
Beijing slid down to fourth place among the mainland's most competitive cities this year, while southern powerhouses Shenzhen and Guangzhou shot up.
An annual ranking of competitiveness among mainland cities was published Thursday by the Chinese Academy of |
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| Holidays enforced in Shanghai to save power
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Date:2005-03-27
From:eastday/agencies
(Updated: 2005-03-27)An expected energy shortage has pressed Shanghai into forcing more than 3,000 companies to give a weeklong holiday to their employees this summer to save power.
Seven separate batches of companies would be required to grant their workers a seven-day holiday betwee |
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| New relationship strategy required
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Date:2005-04-05
From:China Daily
( Updated: 2005-04-05)Merely being on good terms with government officials will no longer suffice if multinational corporations want to get the upper hand in China's rapidly changing business environment.
Wang Zhile, director of the Transnational Corporation Research Centre under the |
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| Businesses preparing for a stronger yuan
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Date:2005-05-08
From:By Keith Bradsher The New York Times
Updated:2005-5-8
GUANGZHOU, China As speculators across Asia place ever larger bets on a revaluation soon of China's currency, investors and corporate executives alike are trying to prepare for what a more valuable yuan will mean for stocks and companies.
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| RMB may gain 7 percent by end-2005: JPMorgan Chase
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Date:2005-05-11
From:People's Daily Online
(Updated:2005-5-11)Media speculation on the Chinese currency revaluation has now turned to guessing when and at what rate the Renminbi will float.
According to a Reuters report, the bank JPMorgan Chase said Monday that the yuan could gain 7 percent against the U.S. dollar by the end |
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| China becomes consumer electronics base
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Date:2005-05-17
From:Xinhua
(Updated: 2005-05-17 )With the opening ceremony of the 2005 Fortune Global Forum held in Beijing Monday, the first China Fortune Forum on Consumer Electronics also announced its opening.
"In 2004, the export revenue of China's electronics informationproducts reached US$207.5 bil |
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| How to do business in China
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Date:2005-05-18
From:http://www.electronicsweekly.co.uk/
(Updated:2005-5-18)A good part of the first day of the IEE/FSA (Institute of Electrical Engineering/Fabless Semiconductor Association) International Executive Semiconductor Forum last week was taken up with how to do business in China.
¡°Be pragmatic," was the advice of Anthony |
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