China's scientific research and high-tech industries - Page 5

oneman28 · 11-16-2005, 03:24 AM

http://www.edn.com/article/CA6275424.html

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Hisense recently unveiled the Hiview digital-video media-processing chip, which successfully passed authoritative appraisal by the MII (Ministry of Information Industry). Hisense built the chip on a 0.18-micron CMOS process. It integrates almost 2 million logic gates and more than 7 million interior transistors. Hisense has been developing the chip over the last four years at its ASIC-design center. The company's Shanghai-based R&D team made the tape-out chip, which involved an investment of about 30 million yuan (about $37 million). Designers can use the product in various kinds of flat TVs, CRTs, and rear-projection TVs.

Hisense currently sells about 7 million TV sets per year. The company plans to use Hiview for digital high-definition TVs, with an expected production capacity of 1 million pieces this year. According to industry insiders, Hiview is not a pioneer product in China, but it may become one of the first video-processing chips to be commercialized.

oneman28 · 11-17-2005, 12:45 PM

http://neasia.nikkeibp.com/topstory/002711

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November 17, 2005 -- Huawei Technologies Co Ltd of China has announced several new technologies and new products at the 3G World Congress & Exhibition currently being held in Hong Kong. These include a new-generation NodeB solution, a CDMA 1xEV-DO rev A technology; a cell multi-media broadcasting (CMB) solution, and a new 3G cell phone with dual cameras.

The NodeB solution, which should help operators greatly improve their 3G network performance, reduces total cost of ownership and supports full-performance HSDPA. The NodeB solution adopts an efficient digital power amplifier, broadband multi-carrier transceiver, high performance HSDPA and CPRI support.

The CDMA 1xEV-DO rev A technology is said to offer the industry's highest uplink and downlink rates -- 3.1Mbps and 1.8Mbps in forward and reverse modes respectively. The new technology is said to provide subscribers with a richer user experience as a result of the larger system capacities and faster services. It allows telecom operators to support real-time service such as voice telephony and VoIP.

The cell multi-media broadcasting (CMB) solution is said to enable the broadcasting of live programs on TV channels as well as multimedia programs on service platforms. The solution is a business-to-business offering that allows mobile operators to stream live broadcasts to subscribers without the need for any hardware modifications. The CMB solution inherits the flexibility and high efficiency of cell broadcast service (CBS) which is the current low-speed broadcast solution in the industry. The solution provides location-based broadcast as well as real-time streaming application of multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS).

The new 3G cell phone with dual cameras, the U526, comes equipped with an HSDPA (high speed downlink packet access) data card E620, which is said to be China's first commercial HSDPA card. Some of the key features of the U526 include high-definition and high-fidelity video playback, allowing users to watch movies at a standard comparable to watching DVD videos on a PC. The handset also features a user-friendly interface that allows consumers to access online applications easily. The E620 HSDPA data card in the handset provides a downlink rate of up to 1.8MHz and supports a variety of network modes ranging from WCDMA, EDGE, GPRS and GSM. The E620 also supports group transmission of SMS and a large-capacity phone book.

(NE Asia Online)

Huawei Continues to Be the Worldwide Leader in Overall DLC/MSAN Port Shipments in 2004 with about a 36% Market Share

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DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 17, 2005--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c27592) has announced the addition of MSANs/DLCs Enable Telco FTTX, TV Services, and VoIP Migration to their offering

DLCs have evolved into Multi-Service Access Nodes (MSANs) that support service provider offerings of triple-play services and their evolution to all-IP networks. This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the worldwide DLC/MSAN market. Worldwide, North America, and ETSI market shares are given for DLC/MSAN POTS, DSL, and total POTS + DSL port shipments in 2004 and 1H05. The key trends shaping the market are highlighted. Detailed profiles are provided that cover the product offerings, key features, competitive strengths, and customers for 13 leading vendors of DLCs/MSANs. The report concludes with five-year forecasts of worldwide DLC/MSAN POTS, DSL, and total POTS + DSL port shipments and revenues.

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We expect worldwide DLC/MSAN POTS + DSL revenues to stay relatively flat for the next five years, due to heavy price competition among the vendors.

Huawei continued to be the worldwide leader in overall DLC/MSAN port shipments in 2004, with about a 36% market share, and Alcatel was second, with a 21% market share.

A number of vendors support VoIP media gateway functionality to enable replacement of Class 5 PSTN switches.

oneman28 · 11-17-2005, 18:02 PM

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SinoCast China IT Watch (November 17, 2005)

Huawei Technologies Co., China's largest telecom equipment maker, reached lately a high- profile partnership with German telecom carrier Arcor AG & Co. to supply synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) transmission products.

The signing ceremony Saturday was witnessed by China's President Hu Jintao, who was in Germany for a state visit, and German President Horst Koehler.

In the meanwhile, Huawei signed with Arcor a latter of intent. Under the letter of intent, Shenzhen-based Huawei will provide Arcor, Germany's second-largest fixed-line telecommunication operator, with a new-generation SDH system for all of Germany.

The system, featuring flexible networking solutions with diverse functions, will facilitate and support Arcor's fast- growing broadband business.

Arcor regards the cooperation with Huawei as a good start for a long-term partnership, Huawei said in a statement. "Huawei is one of the few suppliers that can provide integrated solutions," Arcor's CEO Harald Stoeber was quoted as saying in the statement.

"We will leverage our strong R&D experience and innovative capabilities in the SDH arena to help Arcor build up an advanced SDH optical network," said a Huawei spokesman, who added that Huawei feels honored to be doing business with Arcor, a company known for its stringent technical requirements.

In 2001, Huawei set up its first office in Germany, where it has been growing rapidly since 2004. In the first half of 2005, Huawei was picked as the exclusive supplier to construct a national high-speed optical backbone network for Germany's national research and development network. It also inked a router resale agreement with German incumbent operator Deutche Telekom.

Germany's business broadband operator Quality Service Communications AG is using Huawei's softswitches and media gateways for its planned voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) services.

Telefonica Deutschland is using Huawei's intelligent peripheral digital subscriber line access multiplexers (IP DSLAM) and local partner Vierling Electronics has been delivering contracts from regional and city carriers.

During the first half year of 2005, Huawei made total sales of CNY 33 billion, an increase of 85 percent from the comparable period one year ago.

Of the total revenue, overseas sales were USD 2.47 billion, accounting for as much as 62 percent, outpacing the sum of 2004. The company made partnership with 19 foreign telecom carriers including British Telecom in the first six months this year.

Established in 1988, Huawei Technologies is a high-tech company which specializes in research and development, production and marketing of communications equipment, providing customized network solutions for telecom carriers in optical, fixed, mobile and data communications networks.

Huawei's customers include China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom, China Netcom as well as Thai AIS, South Korea Telecom, SingTel, Hutchison Global Crossing, PCCW, Telemar (Brazil), etc.

Huawei's products can be divided into the following categories: fixed network, mobile network, data communications, optical network, software and services and mobile terminals --- ranging from switching, integrated access network, NGN, xDSL, optical transport, intelligent network, support network, GSM, GPRS, W-CDMA, cdma2000 1x, full series of routers and LAN switches, videoconferencing to other key telecom technology fields. From Shanghai Morning Post, Page 1, Wednesday, November 16, 2005 info@SinoCast.com

oneman28 · 11-23-2005, 11:34 AM

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By Benjamin J. Romano

ELLEN M. BANNER / THE SEATTLE TIMES

Two fully assembled, 25-story-high container cranes from China arrived in Tacoma's Commencement Bay on Sunday. The cranes, destined for the Port of Tacoma's Pierce County Terminal, are welded onto a specially designed transport ship.

It's not just shoes, Xboxes and other consumer goods that come from China.

Zhenhua Port Machinery Co. (ZPMC), the world's leading manufacturer of the huge steel cranes that unload shipping containers, is delivering two more of its biggest to the Port of Tacoma this week.

The 25-story-high cranes arrive fully assembled from Shanghai, welded onto a specially designed transport ship.

They will be detached and, when the tide is at the right level early next week, will be moved on rails to the wharf at the Port's new Pierce County Terminal.

(A film crew from the History Channel is interested in documenting the event for an episode of the program "Mega Movers.")

These Super post-Panamax cranes — named for the giant ships they serve, which are too big to use the Panama Canal — will join seven others at the Port.

They can reach out two-thirds of a football field to load and unload the semitrailer-sized shipping containers that are a basic unit of international trade.

Giant Cranes

Two Super-post Panamax cranes arrived at the Port of Tacoma this week. Evergreen Marine owns these two and five others. The Port owns two.

Height Almost 25 stories, with the boom down.

Weight 1,400 metric tons — roughly 229.5 fully grown African bull elephants, according to the "compulsory pachyderm conversion" data posted on the Port of Tacoma's Web site.

Horsepower 1,340, generated by electric motors that produce no emissions.

Hoist speed 295 feet per minute when loaded with a shipping container. That compares with a standard rate of around 200 feet per minute.

The cranes cost between $7 million and $8 million each, according to a spokeswoman for Taiwan-based Evergreen Marine, which owns them at Pierce County Terminal.

During the last decade, ZPMC has grown to dominate the global market for this equipment, said Bryon Boerner, electronics-technology manager at the Port of Tacoma.

"They are No. 1 in the world as far as orders" since about 2002, he said, adding that ZPMC takes advantage of its lower costs for labor and steel.

"It's the China story again, good quality and cheaper pricing than others are able to offer," Zoe Double of London-based trade publication Containerisation International said in an e-mail.

"Competing with [ZPMC] is extremely hard for crane manufacturers in other regions," Double said.

ZPMC recently won a $33.2 million contract with the South Carolina State Ports Authority for four Super post-Panamax cranes. According to a Ports Authority spokesman, its bid was more than $831,000 lower per crane than the closest competitor's price.

oneman28 · 11-23-2005, 14:49 PM

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...nt_3819411.htm

I posted some info about Program 863 and program 973 in this thread before. They are two important national secientific and high tech R&D programs that are mainly financed by central gov.

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HANGZHOU, Nov. 22 (Xinhuanet) -- Private enterprises in east China's affluent Zhejiang Province have decided to invest 1.2 billion yuan (about 145 million US dollars) in a key national hi-tech research and development program known as Program 863.

This increases the province's total private investment in the program and related commercialization projects to more than two billion yuan (about 240 million US dollars) as of 2005.

At the invitation of China's Ministry of Science and Technology(MOST), more than 30 experts in bio-medicine and new materials participated the China Zhejiang On-line Tech Week here in the past week to negotiate the investment prospects of more than 700 projects of the Program 863 together with over 200 private investors, according to Luo Weihong, deputy director with the science and technology bureau of Zhejiang Province.

Altogether 16 agreements have been reached which involve a total investment of 1.2 billion yuan (145 million US dollars), Luo said.

China began launching the first high technology R&D plan, named863, as it was initiated by well-known scientists in March 1986. The program represents the country's highest scientific and technological attainments, embracing projects related to the growth of the national economy and overall national strength.

Both the MOST and the Zhejiang local science and technology authorities hope private enterprises' involvement in the 863 Program may facilitate the application and commercialization of science and technology R&D achievements.

With a booming private sector, Zhejiang boasts over 700 billion Yuan (84 billion dollars) in private capital. The sector has strong demand for high technologies brought about by the Program 863, which it believes will help optimize its industrial structure, according to Luo. Enditem

oneman28 · 11-25-2005, 16:24 PM

http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/855/2005.../262@32725.htm

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GUANGZHOU- China's first mixed power-drivenbus commercial line was operational recently in Shenzhen, one of China's economic powerhouses in southern Guangdong province.
The first batch of seven diesel-electric buses has been in service on Shenzhen bus lines, and another 18 buses will be delivered in the near future.

All these hybrid buses were made by the Shenzhen based Wuzhoulong Motors Co., Ltd, which have been proved through scientific inspection to save over 15 percent on fuel compared with the traditional diesel buses.

Hybrid-electric bus has been listed as a key project of China's"863 program" (a national high-tech plan initiated in March 1986 aiming to enhance the country's overall power) of the Tenth Five-Year Plan.

Currently, many giant auto-makers in China are focusing on suchenvironmentally friendly buses to meet the upgraded demand of public transport of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

According to the Wuzhoulong Motors, the operational hybrid-diesel-electric bus in Shenzhen has just won the "China Best Environmental Protection Bus Awards" in the China Bus Competition held in Beijing this July.

Founded in May 1987, Wuzhoulong Motors is a comprehensive high-tech enterprise that integrates bus manufacturing, automobilecomponents trading and electric hybrid bus research and development. The company is also the first company in China to export hybrid buses to overseas market.

oneman28 · 11-25-2005, 16:33 PM

http://www.businessweek.com/technolo...123_410936.htm

This article proves Chinese companies competence in the telecom equipement market and the mastering in the telecom tech.

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The networking giant teams up with China's ZTE to develop telecom gear for Asian markets -- and ward off a common enemy

Cisco Systems (CSCO ) is teaming with ZTE Corp, China's largest publicly traded telecom equipment maker, to develop telecom equipment technology for China and other Asian markets. On Nov. 22 the pair announced that they will work together on 3G equipment and advanced fixed-line networks.

While the details of the deal are sketchy, the strategy behind it could be summed up by an old saying: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

For Cisco and ZTE, that common enemy is Huawei Technologies, the privately held company that is China's No. 1 producer of networking and telecommunication equipment. Huawei, which makes routers and switches, among many other products, has become one of the biggest threats to Cisco's position as the dominant player among companies that produce the pipes that make the Internet work.

INTENSE COMPETITION. Huawei has been able to parlay its lower manufacturing and R&D costs -- as well as generous state support from Beijing -- into a commanding position in the Chinese market. Thanks in part to a joint venture with Massachusetts's 3Com (COMS ), Huawei has also grown its overseas presence.

Huawei is still small compared to Cisco. Huawei sold $5 billion worth of equipment last year, while Cisco had $24.8 billion in revenue for the year ended July. But Huawei's overseas sales doubled IN 2004, to $2.2 billion, and late last year IT got a $10 billion credit line from a state-controlled bank to help Huawei boost its exports even more. On Nov. 22, Huawei announced that it had signed an agreement with Vodafone (VOD ) to provide the British outfit with mobile network infrastructure.

Cisco doesn't take the Huawei threat lightly: The San Jose-based giant even sued Huawei in 2003, alleging that it stole some of Cisco's intellectual property. (The two companies later settled the case.)

MUTUAL CONCERN. ZTE hasn't gone that far, but its rivalry with Huawei is just as intense. Both have their headquarters in the southern city of Shenzhen, across the border from Hong Kong, and for years, ZTE has been struggling to emerge from the shadow of its bigger and more well-known neighbor. (ZTE's sales were $2.6 billion last year, with profits of $157 million.) ZTE doesn't make routers but it does chase after some of the same business as Huawei.

It recently won a big contract from China Telecom to provide equipment for the state-owned operator's new Internet Protocol TV service. ZTE is also trying to attract business in emerging markets in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. For instance, on Nov. 15 the company announced that it was conducting 3G trials in Tunisia.

Since Cisco is in networking gear and ZTE has focused largely on wireless equipment, the two haven't been competing against each other. By teaming up, they can help each other achieve their common goal of stopping Huawei.

THEN -- AND NOW. Cisco could use the help in China. These days, executives at Cisco talk with excitement about the possibilities in India, where Cisco doesn't have to face any serious local competitors. It wasn't that long ago that Cisco had China largely to itself, too. In the late 1990s and early years of this decade, Cisco ruled the Chinese market, with more than 60% share for high-end equipment, says Fang Meiqin, an analyst with BDA China, a Beijing-based consulting firm.

Those days are long gone, she says. Cisco "is losing market share fast," says Fang, who estimates that the company's market share is now between 30% and 40%. One big reason is the competition from Huawei, which offers comparable equipment for about half the price. "The price gap between Cisco's products and Huawei's products is huge," she says.

Moreover, Fang says, Huawei can offer better service than Cisco. Huawei "will ask the engineers to stay around the clients' central offices, get feedback on the products and provide customers with product design based on their demands," she says. "Cisco doesn't perform as well because it has much fewer employees [in China] and its labor costs are much higher."

CISCO'S FOCUS. The ZTE deal is a key part of Cisco's strategy to take the fight to Huawei's local turf. Cisco has opened a new R&D center in Shanghai, where it now has 100 engineers doing designs not just for the local market but for Cisco products worldwide.

Cisco is a major investor in China, having put $650 million into Chinese startups such as Shanda Interactive (SNDA ), the Shanghai-based online gaming outfit that was the best performing Nasdaq stock in 2004 but has struggled this year (see BW Online, 11/16/05, "China's Not-So-Jolly Gaming Giants"). Most of those investments have been through the Softbank Asia Infrastructure Fund, a direct-investment vehicle managed by Japan's Softbank and funded by Cisco.

For all of their talk about the potential of India, Cisco executives see big opportunities in China. Last week, Cisco appointed a new head of China operations, Thomas Lam, who says that demand in China isn't slowing down. "IT spending is growing at 12% to 13% a year," says Lam, who points out that Chinese customers spent $27 billion on IT products last year. "It's very, very healthy."

DOWN THE ROAD. The partnership with ZTE will include as one of its major goals the development of what people in the industry call "next generation networks" (NGN), fixed line systems that carry voice and data using Internet Protocol. Lam sees Chinese operators fueling demand for NGNs. "Eventually, the network will look like one big IP network," he says.

One problem for Cisco is that Huawei is making a big push to win NGN business, too. With the new ZTE partnership, Cisco is opening another front in the battle against its pesky Chinese rival.

oneman28 · 11-29-2005, 12:52 PM

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China will released its in-house developed audio/visual coding and decoding chip Phoenix II on December 1, Sina reports quoting inside sources at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' (CAS) Institute of Computer Technology. Phoenix II is based on the AVS and H.264 standards. The Phoenix chip is based on the 32 bit domestically developed Dragon chip, and is capable of 1920x1080i resolution.

oneman28 · 11-30-2005, 23:00 PM

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BEIJING, Nov. 30 (Xinhuanet) -- The Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Computing Technology (CASICT) announced here Wednesday that it opened the IP core of chips based on China's audio and video coding standard.

The audio and video solution (AVS) IP core, whose patents were owned by the CASICT, has a bright future in commercialization, said Fan Jianping, deputy director of the institute.

The new chips can be used in personal computers, televisions, mobile phones and personal digital accessories for audio and video entertainment, Fan said.

Experts said the technology, based on the Chinese standard, was "world-class."

The CAS institute established the Audio and Video coding Standard Work Group of China in June 2002 and tries to develop technologies with their own intellectual property.

A Ningbo-based company, held by the CASICT, has already produced such AVS chips for digital consumer products.

Beijing Zhongguancun High-tech Park has organized a research and development base for industrializing the AVS chips. Big Chinese companies such as the SVA Group, Haier, TCL and Lenovo also showed an interest in jointly developing the chips and AV consumer products based on the chips.

Fan said that 300 to 500 million such chips would be needed by Chinese manufacturers in the coming 10 years. Buying that many foreign-patented chips might cost about one billion US dollars.

oneman28 · 12-01-2005, 19:10 PM

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english...ent_496680.htm

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(bloomberg.com)
Updated: 2005-11-21 18:46

China's home-grown third-generation (3G) mobile telecoms standard is set to take root as more big industry names back it and as the prospect of soft loans and technical support attracts developing market interest.

But first, China must prove outside critics wrong by building and operating a system that works, industry executives say.

The government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to develop the standard, known as TD-SCDMA, over the last few years.

The plan, once dismissed by many outsiders as a pipedream, has gained slow but steady momentum in the last year, with most of the world's major telecoms equipment vendors signing on with Chinese partners to support the technology.

"I think TD-SCDMA will play a role in China, and I wouldn't be surprised if smaller markets outside China do some testing in less complex environments," said Michael Tatelman, North Asia manager of the mobile devices unit of Motorola Inc.

"China is great at promoting and exporting standards," he said on the sidelines of the 3G World Congress this week in Hong Kong. "So is private business there. Like anywhere else, there's a cooperation between government and private enterprises."

Motorola, like a number of other global telecoms equipment makers, has said it will support TD-SCDMA through joint ventures and less formal tie-ups.

Others on the list include Ericsson, Nokia Oyj, Siemens AG, Alcatel and Nortel

U.S.-based Lucent Technologies became one of the last to fall into line. The company told Reuters it was forming an alliance with China's Datang Telecom Technology Ltd. (600198.SS) to develop TD-SCDMA systems.

DEVELOPING MARKETS

Industry observers point out that the technology would be especially suitable for developing markets, since China is likely to provide strong support via soft loans, other financing and technical support for anyone who builds a system.

Such support was a key factor in promulgating the world's two second-generation (2G) mobile standards, GSM and CDMA. GSM was strongly advocated by governments of Western Europe, and by companies including Ericsson and Nokia, while CDMA was backed by the United States and by companies including Qualcomm

Industry experts reckon TD-SCDMA could exist alongside two other high-speed cellular technologies: WCDMA, already in use in Europe and Japan, and CDMA2000 1x, used in North America.

"TD-SCDMA is being sponsored by China just like GSM was sponsored by Europe," said Bob Mao, president of Greater China for Nortel, also on the sidelines of the congress.

"China has been very methodical to make sure the technology is robust. That's why it's taking so long" to roll out fully commercialized products.

ROMANIA SIGNED UP

One developing market -- Romania -- has already signed on to the standard, and is testing out a trial network with China's No. 2 telecoms equipment maker, ZTE Corp., a ZTE executive told Reuters.

But most observers say China will have to show the technology works by building its own broader system before it embarks on any major campaign to spread the technology abroad.

Such a development looks virtually certain to happen next year, when the country is expected to award 3G licenses.

Most observers expect either three or four licenses to be given out, with at least one of those requiring its holder to build either a partial or complete network based on TD-SCDMA.

"We do believe that China is a country which is big enough to have more than one technology available," said Philippe Keryer, president of the mobile communications group for France's Alcatel. "There is a significant market for TD-SCDMA in China. It is opening the door for using the technology outside."

oneman28 · 12-03-2005, 08:44 AM

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China has developed its first AIDS drug with independent intellectual property right, the producers announced in Nanchang Wednesday.

The new drug,Dicaffeoyqunic Acid Tablets, marks a major breakthrough in China's AIDS drug development and has outperformed cocktail therapy in experiments on monkeys, said He Fuchu, vice president of Academy of Military Medical Science, developer of the medicine, at a news briefing in Nanchang, east China's Jiangxi Province.

The drug has been approved by the State Food and Drug Administration to go into clinical tests on human being after passing tests on animals, said He, who is also an academician of Chinese Academy of Science.

"The safety of the new drug is reliable," he said.

The medicine features remarkable performance in curbing the duplication of the HIV virus and its effectiveness lasts longer than the commonly-used cocktail therapy, said He.

The latter, which has been widely used in the world for the treatment of HIV/AIDS, is functional in suppressing the virus and keeping it from damaging the immune system. However, it is not a cure. If the drugs are stopped, the virus bounces back immediately, said He.

"Tests on monkeys show that the virus has not come back during a certain period even after stopping to use the new drug," said He.

The Jiangzhong Pharmaceutical Group, the co-producer of the drug, has applied for patent protection for the drug and the production technique in more than 20 countries, said Zhong Hongguang, board chairman of the group, a major domestic medicine producer.

Academy of Military Medical Science began to develop the drug in 1994 and the Jiangzhong Group, which has already established three state-level research and development centers, joined the program in 1996, said Zhong Hongguang.

Source: Xinhua

oneman28 · 12-05-2005, 17:52 PM

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A Review of the IC Design Houses Industry in China, Including a Survey of 131 Chinese Houses

DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 7, 2005--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c27154) has announced the addition of IC Design Houses in China, 2005 to their offering.

This report looks into IC design houses in China with a survey to 131 Chinese IC design houses with the view of industry situation, ownership, features, products, technology levels financial situations, customer relations, and latest information and development prospects of these firms, thus providing detailed information to those enterprises aiming to enter this industry. This report also classifies these IC design houses into six categories: Fundamental, Multimedia, Communications, Smart Card, PC accessories, and other.

Topics Covered

1. Overview of China IC Design Sector

2. Leading Fundamental IC Design Houses in China

3. Leading Multimedia IC Design Houses in China

4. Leading Smart Card IC Design Houses in China

5. Leading PC Accessory IC Design Houses

6. Other Leading IC Design Houses

Companies Mentioned

Datang Microelectronics Technology Co., Ltd (DMT),BLX IC Design Co., Ltd, Antece Design, ARCA Technology Corporation, Xi'an SWIP Co.,Ltd, Realtime DSP, Beijing Beidazhongzhi Microsystems, Beijing Zhaori Technology,Beida Jadebird Silicon Innovation Co. Ltd (BJSI), Beijing Haier IC, Sigma Micro IC Solution Designing, Tsinghua Tongfang Legend Silicon Tech Co., Ltd, Hangzhou Guoxin Science and Technology Co., Ltd, Shanghai Fangtek, Beijing LHWT Microelectronics Inc, Vimicro Corporation, NanShanBridge Co., Ltd, Comlent Technology Inc, Shanghai SyncMOS Semiconductor Co., Ltd,Shanghai Zhengwei Electronics, Shanghai Bwave Technology Co., Ltd, Hutchison Optel Telecom Technology Co., Ltd, Beijing Huahong IC Design Co., Ltd, Beijing Tsinghua Tongfang Microelectronics Co.,Ltd, Beijing Tianhongyi Technology, Beijing Homaa Microelectronics Technology Co., Ltd, Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics Co., Ltd, Shanghai Huahong IC Design Co., Ltd, Beijing Microaurora, Hitics Microelectronics Co.,Ltd, Hasee IC Design, AEtelecom Technology Co., LTD, Huaxi IC, Shenzhen Zhongmi Technology, Xi'an Create Microelectronics, Wuxi Jiedian Technology, Jinke (Suzhou) IC, Beijing Yuxiang Electronics.

Summary

Currently, there are over 500 IC design houses in China. Employment in IC design houses increased from 3000 in year of 2000 to 20,000 by the end of 2004. IC design sales revenue reached 5.76 billion RMB in 2003, accounting for 12.6% of the total product value of IC industry, and in 2004, IC design sales revenue increased to 11 billion RMB, accounting for 20% of the total product value of IC industry. It is estimated that by 2008 IC design revenues will exceed 80 billion RMB.

China semi-conductor market has enjoyed a continuous 5-year rapid growth, with growth rate exceeding that of the U.S. and Japan, and China has become one the fastest growing semi-conductor market. In the future 3 years, the amount of IC design houses will exceed 800 in China. Great changes will be seen in the design capabilities, product varieties, and business operating capabilities in China's IC design sector. Some IC design houses with business strength will lead China's IC design sector towards mature development road.

In terms of entire business layout, China IC design sector will form a relatively concentrated industry layout centering on Beijing-Tianjin Delta, Yangtze River Delta, Zhujiang River Delta and Western Area Delta. IC design sector in these areas is relatively mature and normalized in relations with the industry chain, with revenues accounting for 80% of the total IC design sector in China. IC design houses with over 100 million annual revenues have occurred. As a whole, the scale of IC design sector in China has fundamentally come into shape. China IC design sector has achieved the scale that took western countries over a decade to achieve.

On IC design technology, China has achieved considerable progress. At present, the majority of mass production design lines have reached 0.18 nanometer, 0.25 nanometer and 0.35 nanometer technology, some even reached 0.13 nanometer. China's scientific research is approaching the 90-nanometer technology.

Nevertheless, IC design sector in China still faces serious challenges. For deficiencies in many aspects, China still relies on IC products import. In 2004, imported IC products in China Mainland accounted for over 80% of the total IC products.

China's deficiencies in IC design are manifested in the following:

Manufacturing techniques in general are lagging behind the U.S., South Korea, Japan and China Taiwan;

SOC and IP core design capability is far from satisfying the market demand, most products are low-end levels with low profit rate;

The entire market scale of China's IC design sector is relatively small compared to developed regions in the world;

China's IC design sector is in short of qualified personnel, including technical staff, management and marketing personnel;

There are few high-end products, even fewer products for high-level system manufacturers;

IC design houses are generally medium- and small-sized, few large firms with great influence to the industry.

However, the Chinese government has always been supporting strongly the IC design industry and released a series of preferential measures to encourage the development of IC design houses, including Document No.18. Document No. 51, tax refund, and discount government loan, setting up specialized industrial base and supporting IC firms. Overseas venture investment firms and far-sighted persons are also actively participating China's IC design sector. By way of participating in shares, or directly establishing their own firms, they entered China IC industry and have made great achievements.

oneman28 · 12-06-2005, 04:58 AM

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/art/200...eakthrough.htm

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Fu Chenghao
2005-12-02 Beijing Time
SINOPEC Shanghai Petrochemical Co said yesterday it has developed a technology for producing a major raw material used in chemical making, breaking into a sector previously cornered by foreign companies.

Sinopec Shanghai, or SPC, a subsidiary of Asia's top refiner, said its breakthrough produces purified terephthalic acid, a key ingredient in polyesters, which are widely used in manufacturing clothing, packages, discs and paper and even in road construction.

In the past, the technology was owned only by foreign companies including BP Plc, DuPont Co and Mitsui Chemicals Inc.

Other companies have to pay significant patent fees for using the technology in China, where consumption of the chemical accounts for nearly half of the world's total. Domestic demand for the chemical, called PTA for short, is expected to reach 11.5 million tons this year while supply is only 6.5 million tons, according to industry figures.

SPC's technology, which will allow it to produce 800,000 tons of PTA annually, could translate into a savings of 190 million yuan (US$23.5 million), according to Chen Xiaojin, a senior engineer at the company. The development, which has received five patents makes China only the second Asian country to own the procedure after Japan.

SPC, the country's biggest maker of ethylene, will use the technology for its own production but will not develop downstream products. It prefers instead to sell the technology to domestic companies at a discount rather than to industrialize the technology itself, citing adverse market conditions.

"The sector is too crowded now, and there are many competitive private enterprises involved. It's not right for us to enter the market," said company spokesman Zhang Jingming. "So we're looking for buyers for the technology, and we will concentrate on our core businesses in middle-stream products such as fibers."

"We are in talks with another subsidiary of Sinopec to sell the technology, and surely the price would be lower than those offered by foreign companies."

oneman28 · 12-06-2005, 18:17 PM

China develops single vaccine for hepatitis A and B

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China has developed its first single vaccine that prevents both hepatitis A and B. The vaccine to be released into the market costs less than current vaccines for the infectious diseases.

The vaccine to be released into the market costs less than current vaccines for hepatitis A and B.

Research into the vaccine started at the end of 1999. It's hoped the vaccine will narrow China's gap with international hepatitis control and treatment research.

Hepatitis A and B are the major infectious diseases in China and have a negative effect on people's health and social development.

Source: CRIENGLISH.com

http://www.chinaembassy.org.ro/rom/kjwh/t179394.htm

China First Genetic Hepatitis E Vaccine

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A proprietary genetically engineering hepatitis E vaccine, developed by the Xiamen University, was recently approved by the state authorities for I/II clinical trials. The vaccine expects to be the second GE tools preventing hepatitis in the world, following the appearance of hepatitis B vaccine.

The I/II clinical trials will be divided into phase I safety testing, and phase II immunity testing. During the phase I trials, vaccines will be injected into human body for adverse reaction observation. Phase II will test the vaccine safety on an expanded basis, observing antibody formation. It will take some one year to complete the two-phase trails. Researchers will start the Phase III protection trials to observe actual prevention results of the vaccine among more people, if the preceding two trials go smooth.

http://english.people.com.cn/200407/...23_150553.html

Chinese scientists construct therapeutic HBV vaccine

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Wen Yumei, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said here Thursday that her research team has developed a therapeutic vaccine for hepatitis B virus (HBV) and has begun phase two clinical testing.

Wen said the first period of phase two clinical testing startedat the end of 2003 with 36 subjects involved.

"We have to wait till the end of August for the results, but sofor it shows promising," Wen said at the ongoing 10th International Symposium of the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America.

Wen, who is also scientific chairperson of Department of Molecular Virology under China's Ministry of Education, said the research on the vaccine started in 1988 and animal testing was completed soon after.

"Phase one clinical testing was completed in 2002, which showedthat the vaccine is very safe," she said.

Wen said her research team will continue the phase two clinic testing in September, which will probably last for one year and cover 200 volunteers.

"But I am not sure when we can start phase three testing or when the vaccine can be put on the market," the expert said, adding that it will probably take a few years for them to complete the study.

Hepatitis B is one of the most infectious diseases in China. In2003, China reported 710,000 Hepatitis B cases, accounting for 28 percent of the total number of reported infectious diseases in China.

In recent years, Chinese scientists have been speeding up research on the vaccine's development. Wen said with more advanced vaccines being used and popularized, the incidence of HBV and its prevalence rate are expected to drop gradually in China.

Source: Xinhua

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