China's scientific research and high-tech industries - Page 8

oneman28 · 01-20-2006, 16:59 PM

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...nt_4080128.htm

I think China bought a lot of Tech for the 3-gorge dam project. More than half of the electrical generators for this dam are made by CHinese companies. The capacity of each generator is 780,000 kilowat (or 780 MW) which is the biggest hydro-power generator in the world.

Quote:

BEIJING, Jan. 20 (Xinhuanet) -- World's largest hydro-electric and power equipment producer Alstom said here Friday, China is now able to produce world's biggest hydro-electric generating unit.

Alstom will fully support China's great plan of hydro-electric generation, said Alain Berger, president of Alstom.

Alstom's joint venture company in Tianjin now possess over 20 percent of the Chinese market. By acquiring up-to-date technology and equipment, the company has become the world's first-class hydro-electric equipment production base, he said.

Berger pledged to support China's hydro-electric development and continue to take part in China's endeavor by transferring advanced technology. Enditem

oneman28 · 01-20-2006, 17:16 PM

http://english.people.com.cn/200601/...20_237039.html

Quote:

Experts say China has become one of the countries in the world with the most developed online game industry and home-made online games can keep pace with or even lead the world.

This information has come from the recent annual conference on China's online game industry in Xiamen, Fujian Province.

26.34 million people in China play online games in 2005, up 30.1 percent over that in 2004. The market generated 3.77 billion yuan of sales revenue, soaring 52.6 percent over that in 2004.

The boom of the business brought more than 30 billion yuan directly to the sectors of telecommunication, information, commerce and publishing.

In 2005, 120 teams were engaged in designing their own online games, increasing by 37 percent from 73 in 2004. 192 online games were developed in 2005, a notable rise of 76 percent from 109 in 2004. The number of online game R&D staffs more than tripled to 12,600 in 2005 from 4,000 in 2004.

Data shows the majority of players are 19 to 25 years old, accounting for 61.7 percent of the group. Only 3.4 percent of players are below 16 years old. That is opposite with the ¡°supposed¡± very young players.

However, 39.9 percent of online game players are school students. People in the IT industry and those at the management posts at enterprises and public institutions are the second and third largest groups of online game players. An official with China Game Publishers' Association said those people play online games to relax themselves from pressure.

By People's Daily Online

oneman28 · 01-21-2006, 15:28 PM

http://english.people.com.cn/200601/...21_237208.html

Quote:

A full superconducting experimental Tokamak fusion device, which aims to generate infinite, clean nuclear-fusion-based energy, will be built in March or April in Hefei, capital city of east China's Anhui Province.

Experiments with the advanced new device will start in July or August. If the experiments prove successful, China will become the first country in the world to build a full superconducting experimental Tokamak fusion device, nicknamed "artificial sun", experts here said.

The project, dubbed EAST (experimental advanced superconducting Tokamak), is being undertaken by the Hefei-based Institute of Plasma Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It will require a total investment of nearly 300 million yuan (37 million U.S. dollars), only one fifteenth to one twentieth the cost of similar devices being developed in the other parts of the world.

The new device will be an upgrade of China's first superconducting Tokamak device, dubbed HT-7, which was also built by the plasma physics institute, in partnership with Russia, in the early 1990s. HT-7 made China the fourth country in the world, after Russia, France and Japan, to have such a device.

"The EAST project research results will be significant for the International Thermonuclear Experiment Reactor, or ITER, in terms of basic research both in engineering technology and physics," said Wan Yuanxi, who is in charge of the project.

Wan said ITER will also be a full superconducting experimental Tokamak fusion device with an advanced configuration, but much larger than EAST.

The program, still in its initial stages, involves Russia, Japan, the United States, the European Union, China and the Republic of Korea.

Controlled nuclear fusion is seen as an efficient way for people to generate infinite, clean energy to offset the dearth of fossil fuels such as oil and coal.

Scientists believe that deuterium can be extracted from the sea and an enormous amount of energy can be obtained from a deuterium-tritium fusion reaction under huge temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius. After nuclear fusion, the deuterium extracted from one liter of sea water will produce energy equivalent to 300 liters of gasoline.

If a device is developed that can withstand temperatures as high as 100 million Celsius degrees and control a deuterium-tritium reaction, it will be as though an "artificial sun" had been created able to supply infinite, clean energy for human beings.

Source: Xinhua

oneman28 · 01-24-2006, 05:30 AM

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...nt_4093795.htm

Quote:

BEIJING, Jan. 24 -- A nationwide circuit show on China's top-notch intelligence robots kicked off its first leg of exhibition on Sunday at the Three Gorges Museum in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality.

A total of 28 robots were displayed on the exhibition, which varied in forms and functioned differently.

The exhibit was a showcase for the achievements made by the China Academy of Sciences, the organizing body of the exhibition, on its fruitful scientific researches in aspects of voice identification, visual identification, smart decision making, intelligent movements and interactive communications between humans and humanoids. (source: China.org.cn)

oneman28 · 01-28-2006, 06:23 AM

http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/2238/200...138@296061.htm

Quote:

2006-1-28 13:47:29 Xinhua

China's semiconductor industry posted an impressive growth last year, with its industrial structure continuing to improve.

According to a semiconductor summit held recently in Shanghai, last year China produced approximately 30 billion integrated circuit (IC) chips, a year-on-year increase of 36.7 percent. The sector recorded a sales volume of 75 billion yuan (9.2 billion U.S. dollars), up 37.5 percent over the previous year.

Industry insiders predicted that the semiconductor industry would maintain the sound development momentum this year, hopefully producing 42 billion IC chips and achieving a sales volume of 102 billion yuan (12.6 billion U.S. dollars).

Since the beginning of last year, the sector has adjusted and improved its industrial structure, with the IC packaging business claiming a smaller share and IC design and IC wafer production expanding rapidly.

In 2005, the IC packaging business garnered 34 billion yuan (4.2 billion U.S. dollars) in earnings, up 20.3 percent over the previous year. Meanwhile, the earnings of the IC design and IC wafer production reached 13.1 billion yuan (1.6 billion U.S. dollars) and 28 billion yuan (3.5 billion U.S. dollars) respectively, up 60.8 percent and 54.5 percent year on year.

(Source: Xinhua)

oneman28 · 01-28-2006, 07:30 AM

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/01/27/1321983.htm

This article shows the capability of Huawei's products.

Quote:

(The Middle East and North Africa Business Report (Amman, Jordan)(KRT) Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Jan. 26--Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. ("Huawei"), a leader in providing next generation networks for telecommunications operators around the world, announced that Huawei's GSM Mobile Softswitch system deployed for Saudi Telecom Company ("STC") kept stable operation and got through the peak traffic on Haj from 8 to 13 January 2006.

Performing Haj to Mecca is an event of significance for Muslims. Haj of each year fetches millions of pilgrims to the holy sites. In 2006 Haj season, 3 million pilgrims, up 20 percent than last year, gathered in the holy sites which is 5 square kilometers around.

Since the mobile users made calls at the same time period, it caused obvious peak traffic; millions of mobile users moved to the same direction at the same time according to the pilgrimage rite, so a large amount of location update and handover were generated. Moreover, since the pilgrims come from different countries, the quantity of short messages jumped 10 times over the average.

The explosion in traffic and the extreme traffic type posted extremely high criteria on capability and reliability of the mobile networks. Thereby, the quantity and the type of the traffic during Haj are regarded as the severest challenge for mobile communications. Owing to the peak traffic in Haj season in past years, some problems were seen in mobile communications.

Considering the higher service processing capability of the softswitch architecture, STC selected Huawei's GSM Mobile Softswitch System to construct the network covering all Haj holy sites including Makkah after deliberate evaluation and rigorous tests, expecting to avoid the traffic congestions during the peak time. In the network, the capacity of one of Huawei's GSM Softswich VMSC exceeds one million subscribers, being the largest mobile softswitch local exchange in the world. Meanwhile, STC and Huawei jointly organized a special team to expand the capacity and optimize the existing network, in order to sustain the confidence of its users in its operations during the 2006 Haj season.

At wee hours on 9 January 2006, the total number of mobile users in Makkah increased to 3 million, and the number of equivalent users in the biggest local exchange reached over 1.1 million with the biggest BHCA exceeding 3000K. The traffic volume increased by nearly 20 times, and the quantity of short messages and handover 18 times and 24 times respectively as the average. However, the put-through rate kept stable and the mobile users could make calls successfully then.

In spite of the limited processing capability of BSS system of the existing network, Huawei's Mobile Softswitch adopted flow control technology to ensure the stable operation of the whole network. Moreover, although the movement of large number of mobile users brought local exchanges different peak traffics, Huawei's Mobile Softswitch dynamically allocated the processing capability among modules, thus made full use of the system's entire processing capability and secured the system operation. Huawei's flow control and soft capacity technologies enabled mobile softswitch to go through the impact of peak traffic and the extreme traffic type from 8 to 13 January 2006 smoothly and successfully.

Huawei's mobile softswitch equipment has excellent processing capability, and thanks to its centralized management, network loads can be well balanced. Its outstanding performance during Haj season this year impressed people a lot. Although the number of mobile users increased by 20 percent, STC's GSM network kept a high put-through rate and its operation income jumped 30 percent than that of last year. STC sang high praise of Huawei's GSM Softswitch system for its outstanding performance and achievements during Haj of Saudi Arabia, and awarded Huawei the "Highest Development Achievement Award for 2005".

Mr. Zhang Shunmao, CEO of Huawei Wireless Product Line, commented, "Huawei's Mobile Softswitch has been commercially deployed in more than 30 countries, serving over 50 million subscribers. Going through the peak traffic of Haj successfully proves the stability and reliability of Huawei's mobile softswitch technology."
.

Neo · 01-29-2006, 11:52 AM

BEIJING: Pakistan’s exports to China showed an upward trend, registering an increase of about 39.2 per cent last year, the Chinese Custom Authority said.

The exports totalled $832 million during January to December 2005 compared to exports of $594 million in the previous year (January-December 2004). Therefore, the increase in Pakistan’s exports to China in one year amounted to about $238 million.

Custom Authority sources told APP here on Saturday there was a considerable jump in the exports of cotton yarn, cotton fabric, leather, chromium ore, copper and fish.

China calculates export figures on the basis of origin of exported items, including those that come to the mainland through Hong Kong. The Chinese financial calendar runs from January to December.

When asked to comment on future prospects of Pakistan’s trade with China, Commercial Counsellor in Pakistan Embassy, Shahid Mahmood said there was still great room for enhancing exports, particularly of value-added textile products like cotton fabric, manmade fabric, home textile and towel.

The growing Chinese market also provides wide opportunities for Pakistani traders to enhance the export of non-traditional items like sports and engineering goods, handicrafts, marble, onyx, jewellery and agro-based products.

Pakistan’s exports to China are likely to get a further boost, with the reduction of tariff on a number of products under the Early Harvest Programme (EHP) that came into effect from January 1, 2006. The margin of duty reduction by China is around 27 per cent.

Shahid Mahmood hoped the trade volume would increase in the coming months when rice, mango and other agro-based products would be included in the list of exports to China.

There are bright prospects to take Pakistan’s annual export volume to US$1 billion by the end of this year.

An official of the Chinese Commerce Ministry suggested maximum number of Pakistani businessmen should visit Beijing to explore new openings in trade.

According to economic experts, there are very favourable indications for the two countries to enhance their overall trade as tariff on most of the items would come to zero by the end of 2008.

http://jang.com.pk/thenews/jan2006-d...usiness/b8.htm

oneman28 · 02-01-2006, 11:07 AM

http://www.ottawabusinessjournal.com...0582783996.php

By Ottawa Business Journal Staff
Wed, Feb 1, 2006 8:00 AM EST

Quote:

Nortel's Carling Avenue campus
Nortel is forming a new joint venture with China-based Huawei Technologies to develop ultra broadband access solutions for markets around the world.

The venture will be based in Ottawa. It will be focused on product enhancements for Huawei's current broadband access portfolio and the development of a new ultra broadband product portfolio. The portfolio will be sold exclusively to Huawei and Nortel as channel providers.

The two companies have also entered into a supply agreement that allows Nortel to immediately begin supplying customers with Huawei's broadband access portfolio.

"Nortel is focused on seizing opportunities that will generate new revenue and expand operating margin. This joint venture is a bold opportunity to combine the strengths of Huawei and Nortel into a company that can aggressively target and win share in the rapidly expanding ultra broadband market," says Nortel president and CEO Mike Zafirovski. "This will create a powerful new player in what is a high growth market."

Nortel and Huawei say they expect to complete the formation of the joint venture in the third quarter of 2006. Joint development of products has already begun, with availability expected for all markets by the third quarter of 2006.

The new company will combine Huawei's broadband access solutions with Nortel's voice and broadband networking technologies to create a new product portfolio designed to be a leader in the industry in value and performance. The companies say these products will give service providers the ability to converge the delivery of voice, video, data and wireless services to business and residential customers onto a common IP platform that supports copper, fibre and fixed wireless networks.

Huawei is a global telecom equipment maker, with products deployed in over 100 countries around the world.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

oneman28 · 02-01-2006, 11:18 AM

http://www.checkbiotech.org/root/ind...ge_nr=101&pg=1

Quote:

Wednesday, February 1, 2006
By Clive Cookson

Plant scientists see China as a global leader for the future. The country has set agricultural biotechnology as a research priority, with spending estimated at around $200m this year and rising fast.

Clive James, chairman of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agribiotech Applications, says the development of genetically modified crops "is primarily as an issue of food, feed and fibre security" for the Chinese leadership. Commercial considerations come well behind security as a motive for the country's agribiotech programme, which employs an estimated 2,000 scientists.

But even in China the route to GM crops is not straightforward. The government is far from united in its commitment to GM. Some officials in the agriculture ministry are more interested in building exports of non-GM crops, particularly soya, to markets where there is strong consumer resistance to biotech foods. And the State Environmental Protection Administration co-operates with China's surprisingly vigorous Greenpeace organisation, whichis campaigning against GM crops.

Chinese farmers have grown insect-resistant "Bt" cotton since 1996, when the commercial planting of GM crops also started in north America. Today, almost 70 per cent of China's cotton comes from GM plants. Jikun Huang, director of the Centre of Chinese Agricultural Policy in Beijing, says GM cotton has benefited 6m Chinese farmers through increased yields and greatly reduced insecticide use.

However, Monsanto, the company that pioneered the worldwide commercialisation of Bt cotton, has not benefited as much as it had hoped from China. The country introduced its own Bt cotton, developed at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, at the same time as the Monsanto product arrived. Originally the American company had 70 per cent of the Chinese market, says Mr Huang, but last year the Chinese products overtook it.

"Monsanto [executives] are not happy," Mr Huang observes. "They complain that the government limited them to a few provinces and they complain that they cannot control their own varieties in China."

Although cotton is still the only GM crop grown commercially in China, a dozen others are being field tested. The main focus of attention is rice, the country's principal food crop. Four types of Chinese-developed GM rice - three to prevent insect damage and one to resist bacterial blight - have undergone extensive field trials yet none has won a commercial production licence, in spite of a series of applications going back to 1998.

Environmental campaigners are fighting hard to prevent the commercial planting of biotech rice in China - and may delay approval for a few more years - but the crop's proponents are confident that the food security arguments and GM's agricultural benefits will win the argument eventually. It might then be adopted widely in Asia.

However, GM soya, one of the key biotech crops in the Americas, is not likely to be planted commercially in China for a long while. While the country imports large amounts of GM soya, the agriculture ministry perseveres with its policy of growing only non-GM soya, for export at premium prices to Europe, South Korea and Japan.

Although research is getting under way, GM soya will not be commercialised until China has its own varieties, Mr Huang says. "Biotech crops in China depend on what technology is developed in the country."

?Copyright The Financial Times Ltd 2006

oneman28 · 02-02-2006, 04:17 AM

http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/2238/200...135@296739.htm

Quote:

2006-2-2 10:28:06 CRIENGLISH.com

China is planning to build its first very－high－temperature gas－cooled reactor by the year 2010. This will be the first such reactor in the world.

Currently, China's prestigious Tsinghua University, the China Huaneng Group and the China Nuclear Engineering and Construction (Group) Corporation are turning their hands to the construction of this new nuclear reactor.

China is now regarded as having a leading role in new nuclear technologies worldwide.

Nuclear energy, which is considered a relatively clean energy source, is being seen as an important source of the energy China needs to power its economic development over coming decades.

The Very-High-Temperature Reactor is a graphite-moderated, helium-cooled reactor with a once-through uranium fuel cycle.

The Very-High-Temperature Reactor system is designed as a high-efficiency system that can supply process heat to a broad spectrum of high-temperature and energy-intensive, non-electric processes.

oneman28 · 02-02-2006, 18:07 PM

http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/2238/200...135@296731.htm

Quote:

2006-2-2 9:00:50 CRIENGLISH.com

(China's first underwater robot, used for working surrounding fuel rods inside nuclear reactors, has been transferred to the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station in Guangdong Province, south China. Photo: Baidu)

Chinese scientists have developed the country's first underwater robot which is used for working surrounding fuel rods inside nuclear reactors.

The robot, developed by the Institute of Optics and Electronicsunder the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has already been transferred to the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station in Guangdong Province, south China.

Leading scientists from the Chengdu-based institute said the robot will observe the installation of fuel rods from underwater. It can also be used for salving objects falling into the fuel.

The robot is designed to pick up screwdrivers, spanners, bolts and broken glass, with a weight under one kilogram, the scientistssaid.

The China-made robot is much smaller and cheaper than similar foreign products. At only one eighth of the price of foreign competitors, the Chinese robot is able to climb a slope of 30 degrees at a speed of 0.9 meters per minute.

Chinese automation experts said that this type of underwater robot has laid a solid foundation for further research and development in versatile artificial intelligence technologies.

(Source: Xinhua)

oneman28 · 02-03-2006, 06:30 AM

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China_B.../HA25Cb05.html

Quote:

By Michael Mackey

SHANGHAI - China's recent launch of its first domestically built liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier ship marked a significant upgrade of the country's shipbuilding industry.

The ship, launched on December 29 by the China State Shipbuilding Corp's (CSSC) Shanghai-based Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) Co Ltd, is 292 meters long and 43.35 meters wide with a capacity of 147,200 cubic meters.

Double-hulled, the vessel is of the prismatic, membrane type of LNG-carrier, which means the storage tanks conform to the ship's hull and the vessel therefore lacks the spherical tanks that giveMoss-type LNG-carriers (named after the Norwegian company Moss Maritime, which originated the design in 1971) their distinctive profile.

Building LNG carriers is "highly sophisticated stuff. Chinese yards have done easy-peasy stuff" until now, said one shipping-industry source who asked not to be named. "LNG [carriers bring in] a lot of money." Indeed, Hudong-Zhonghua has five further LNG vessels on order. A second is due to be delivered in early 2008, with the first two ships priced at US$400 million each.

Chinese officials also have no doubt that the specialized natural-gas carriers mark a significant departure for Chinese shipbuilding. "The construction of China's first LNG carrier implies that China's shipbuilding industry has entered a new phase, and it will make the industry more competitive in the world market," was the view of Zhang Xiangung, a senior official of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense.

There are said to be "very sensitive" negotiations for another 12 carriers ongoing. However, two problems will need to be addressed to ensure the ships don't turn into white elephants, both of them on the supply side. One is the issue of terminals; the second is the equally vexing issue of LNG sources and their cost.

Terminal plans

LNG terminals are as important to the process of moving the products as the ship. Because LNG is kept very cold (around -160 degrees Celsius) to maintain it in liquid state, it requires special handling at every stage, from initial recovery to end-user delivery. Chinese companies have proposed building 16 LNG terminals, of which 10 will be operational by 2010. However, so far only two terminals have secured gas supplies for the long term.

These are Guangdong Dapeng LNG and a second facility in Fujian, which are due to start operations in June and the end of 2007, respectively. More is known about the Dapeng facility, which is jointly owned by the China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) and various local investors.

The facility is reported to have cost about 7 billion yuan (US$868 million) and, when it goes online, will import 3 million tons of LNG annually from Australia. The Fujian terminal is a joint venture between CNOOC Gas and Power and Fujian Investment and Development. CNOOC, a natural for this field, is known to be building a string of terminals to receive imported LNG along China's affluent southwest coast.

Not all the terminals will be in one region. PetroChina has detailed plans to build throughout the central and northern provinces. It has named Yangkou Port near Rudong in Jiangsu province, Caofeidian Port near Tangshan in Hebei and Dalian in Liaoning province as the sites of its terminals. There has also been talk of similar facilities in the provinces of Zhejiang and Shandong.

All these proposed facilities face one common problem, which could well trim the number of terminals proposed - will there actually be enough LNG for all of them? One of the drivers of China's foreign policy at the moment is its need for commodities, especially energy.

As other big economies, such as India, start to join the melee, the competition will drive prices up and the results of this process are already pushing China financially.

"China will have a very difficult time buying LNG at the prices it's willing to pay," Mark Pilcher, vice president of BP's global LNG division, said recently. "Right now, there is a shortage of LNG in Asia and that's why prices are so high. [The same is] also definitely true in the world."

Foreign investment welcome
That future issue aside, the recent launch holds out the prospect, tantalizing for some and extremely challenging for others, of an expanded and invigorated Chinese shipbuilding industry on an almost epic scale - but one that is open to the rest of the world to an unprecedented degree, in terms of technology, exchanges and capital.

For shipbuilders, the specialized technology in LNG carriers, including Invar or Triplex membranes for the tanks, Perlite insulation layers to keep the gas cold, and all the associated plumbing, makes LNG vessels the highest class of civilian cargo ship. Well aware of this, the Chinese have put their hours in to make sure their country joins the elite club of shipbuilders.

"The technology required is very demanding and complicated. We have studied the building of LNG carrier[s] since 1997 and workers underwent about 8,400 programs of special training," said Wang Hengyuan, chief technology inspector of CSSC.

CSSC's progress transcends expanding the product line into LNG carriers, and is another emblem of how China's shipbuilding trade will shake the world in the coming years. Vice president Tan Zuojan said openly in a recent speech that CSSC's goal was to try to make itself the world's largest shipbuilder. Tan outlined a detailed, five-pronged vision for CSSC in the coming half-decade. The five prongs include redoubled efforts to construct a new shipbuilding base; adjusting the product mix; greater use of science and technology; enhancing overall competitiveness; and pursuing additional foreign linkages.

To many observers, the real surprise lay in the last point. Tan advocated moving from the existing approach of a reclusive shipbuilding industry, one virgin to overseas involvement, and offered not one but two modes of international linkage. The first is foreign exchanges and cooperation; the second, less standard, was an invitation for overseas investment.

"We sincerely welcome overseas capital actively to take part in the construction of CSSC's new shipbuilding bases and marine-related equipment production bases," the text of his speech said.

Shipbuilding Island
As for the actual building of ships, the focal point is building what is in effect the Shipbuilding Island of Changxing, just outside Shanghai. Changxing may eventually become the largest shipyard in the world. By 2015 its shipyards are projected to have a capacity of 8 million deadweight tons (dwt).

Other shipyards in the vicinity will have a total capacity of 12 million dwt - and that is to be just half of China's production.

"We will step up the new shipbuilding base project in Changxing Island," said Tan. The real impact of Changxing may actually not be the expansion of capacity that it will allow, impressive though this is, but in the across-the-board product mix strategy for which it appears to be a catalyst.

This reflects a major internal change within the Chinese industry as the old statist corporations run by Beijing give way to more market-based enterprises.

"A [new] structure pattern [in the] shipbuilding industry is taking shape gradually, with enterprises of multiple ownership, such as state-owned, privately owned, exclusively foreign, China-foreign joint ventures or cooperative ones to be developed together," noted Jin Caikuan, president of the Chinese Society of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, as he spoke credibly of "advancing towards the target of being the world's No 1 [shipbuilder]."

oneman28 · 02-05-2006, 01:40 AM

http://www.blackenterprise.com/yb/yb...lackenterprise
2006-02-04
Xinhua News Agency - CEIS

Quote:

GENEVA, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- China made 2,452 international patent applications in 2005 and became the world's 10th largest user of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) said here on Friday.

China's number of international patent applications reached 2, 452 in 2005, a growth of 43.7 percent compared with the previous year, said WIPO Deputy Director-General Francis Gurry, who oversees the work of the PCT.

China ranked 13th in the list of top countries and regions who made PCT applications in 2004, but in 2005, it dislodged Canada, Italy and Australia to take the 10th place, the official said at a press conference.

He said in 2005, over 134,000 PCT applications were filed by different countries and regions, representing a 9.4 percent increase over 2004.

The five top users of the international patent system remained unchanged, namely the United States, Japan, Germany, France and the United Kingdom.

And, for the second year running, the most impressive rates of growth came from northeast Asia, namely Japan, the Republic of Korea and China, which altogether accounted for 24.1 percent of all international applications.

"The rate of growth from Japan, the Republic of Korea and China continues to be exceptional, reflecting the rapidly expanding technological strength of those countries," Gurry said.

"Since 2000, the number of applications from Japan, the Republic of Korea and China has risen by 162 percent, 200 percent and 212 percent respectively," he added.

Inventors and industry from the United States represented 33.6 percent of all applications in 2005, while Japan, who unseated their German counterparts in 2003 for the No.2 spot, maintained their second place position with 18.8 percent of the total number of applications.

Applications from the Republic of Korea accounted 3.5 percent of the total in 2005, while China's applications accounted for 1.8 percent.

oneman28 · 02-09-2006, 01:49 AM

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...nt_4156535.htm

Quote:

www.chinaview.cn 2006-02-09 13:07:33

BEIJING, Feb. 9 -- German coal mining solution provider DBT GmbH has acquired a Chinese coal mining technology for more than 15 million yuan. This is the first time that China's coal industry has exported mining technology.

China's Yankuang Group owns the intellectual property rights of the technology producing hydraulic support. Jin Tai, vice president of the company in charge of the development of the innovation, was honored an award at the Asia Mining Congress in Calcutta last year.

The deal licenses non-exclusive, non-transferable limited use of the longwall top coal caving (LTCC) technology to the German company.

Compared with conventional methods, the new support is featured with compact dimension, simple structure, better reliability, higher efficiency, faster mobility and easier automation. It has a longer loading lifespan than set by the European standard and brings 1.5 million tons of extra output to unit production.

DBT will offer 128 such supports to Australia to build the world's first longwall top coal face with this technology.

oneman28 · 02-09-2006, 02:28 AM

http://english.people.com.cn/200602/...06_240558.html

Quote:

China's telecommunications equipment manufacturer Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, the country's largest privately-owned exporter of hi-tech products, saw its overseas sales exceed domestic sales in 2005, the Ministry of Commerce reported.

Last year, Huawei's contracted sales volume totaled 66.7 billion yuan (about 8.3 billion U.S. dollars), 58 percent of which was gained from its overseas services, according to ministry figures.

In 2005, Huawei's market share of NGN and IP-DSLAM technologies ranked number one in the world, and its 3G technology was commercially used in 18 countries and regions including the Netherlands, Portugal and Malaysia. Huawei has become a strategic cooperation partner with world-renowned telecom companies such as Telefonica and Vodafone.

The Ministry of Commerce attributed Huawei's success to its ongoing commitment to technological innovation, advanced research and development and protection of intellectual property rights.

Figures from the State Intellectual Property Office show Huawei has applied for the most patents in the country. By the end of 2005, Huawei had applied for a total of more than 10,000 patents, 90 percent of which were invention patents.

Source: Xinhua

China's Huawei confirms 150 mln eur deal with Polish telco

http://www.forbes.com/technology/fee...fx2511645.html

Quote:

BEIJING (AFX) - China's telecommunications equipment firm Huawei Technologies has confirmed reports that it has signed a 150 mln eur deal with Polish mobile operator P4.

'We have signed a contract,' said Huawei spokesman Fu Jun.

Shenzhen-based Huawei will provide P4 with a third generation (3G) mobile network operating on the universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS) standard.

Fu said construction of the network would begin this year.

Privately-held Huawei has been has been aggressively expanding overseas, particularly in the developing world, in a bid to boost its international image and business.

The firm's 2005 global contract sales grew 40 pct from the previous year to reach 8.2 bln usd.

01-29-2006, 11:52 AM	#112 (permalink)
Neo Silent lurker *Senior Contributor* Join Date: 04-06-05 Location: Amsterdam Posts: 7,920 Country:	Exports to China jump 39pc in 2005 BEIJING: Pakistan’s exports to China showed an upward trend, registering an increase of about 39.2 per cent last year, the Chinese Custom Authority said. The exports totalled $832 million during January to December 2005 compared to exports of $594 million in the previous year (January-December 2004). Therefore, the increase in Pakistan’s exports to China in one year amounted to about $238 million. Custom Authority sources told APP here on Saturday there was a considerable jump in the exports of cotton yarn, cotton fabric, leather, chromium ore, copper and fish. China calculates export figures on the basis of origin of exported items, including those that come to the mainland through Hong Kong. The Chinese financial calendar runs from January to December. When asked to comment on future prospects of Pakistan’s trade with China, Commercial Counsellor in Pakistan Embassy, Shahid Mahmood said there was still great room for enhancing exports, particularly of value-added textile products like cotton fabric, manmade fabric, home textile and towel. The growing Chinese market also provides wide opportunities for Pakistani traders to enhance the export of non-traditional items like sports and engineering goods, handicrafts, marble, onyx, jewellery and agro-based products. Pakistan’s exports to China are likely to get a further boost, with the reduction of tariff on a number of products under the Early Harvest Programme (EHP) that came into effect from January 1, 2006. The margin of duty reduction by China is around 27 per cent. Shahid Mahmood hoped the trade volume would increase in the coming months when rice, mango and other agro-based products would be included in the list of exports to China. There are bright prospects to take Pakistan’s annual export volume to US$1 billion by the end of this year. An official of the Chinese Commerce Ministry suggested maximum number of Pakistani businessmen should visit Beijing to explore new openings in trade. According to economic experts, there are very favourable indications for the two countries to enhance their overall trade as tariff on most of the items would come to zero by the end of 2008. http://jang.com.pk/thenews/jan2006-d...usiness/b8.htm __________________ Administrator @ Defence.pk