China's scientific research and high-tech industries

oneman28 · 10-09-2005, 13:04 PM

I will convert this tread to a thread about China's scientific research and high-tech industries. I always think the promotion of the industry level is the most important thing for China since the manufaturing is so big now.

I will add the related links I posted before.

Anyone who can help me to change the title of this thread?????

Low cost spearheads China drive into biotech

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/news...archived=False

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By Ben Hirschler, European Pharmaceuticals Correspondent

LONDON (Reuters) - China aims to become a leading player in the fast-growing biotechnology sector by capitalising on research costs that are one fifth those of Europe or the United States, a top official said on Monday.

In the past, the country's drug industry has largely consisted of manufacturing cheap generics and producing traditional Chinese medicine.

Now the government is making biotechnology a priority, Professor Wang Hongguang, director general of the China National Centre for Biotechnology Development, told a pharmaceutical conference in London.

The change is reflected in some startling figures. China already boasts more than 20 biotech parks dotted around the country and 500 biotech enterprises, he said.

Some 300 of these companies are focussed on medicine, with the balance mainly targeting agriculture.

The Chinese government and local governments have both been active in supporting the sector, with total state funding last year reaching the equivalent of 270 million euros (183 million pounds).

The aim is to nurture home-grown enterprises and encourage inward investment from foreign companies.

It appears to be bearing fruit, with China currently having more than 150 experimental drugs in clinical trials and a handful of Chinese-developed biotech products already reaching the local market, including the world's first licensed gene therapy treatment.

PATENT CONCERNS

Western drug makers remain concerned at the country's reputation for weak patent protection, as highlighted by a decision of the State Intellectual Property Office in 2004 to overturn Pfizer Inc.'s (PFE.N: Quote, Profile, Research) Chinese patent on Viagra.

Overall, however, industry executives said enforcement of patents appeared to be improving, following China's accession to the World Trade Organisation.

Regulation of drug quality has also been tightened, with the establishment in 2003 of the State Food and Drug Administration, modelled on the U.S. FDA.

Wang predicted a coming boom for Chinese biotech, driven by low costs and the scale of the Chinese market.

"The cost of biomedical research in China is only about 20 percent of the cost in Western countries," he told the conference, which was organised by the Financial Times.

Those cost advantages range from cheaper lab work -- with Chinese salaries just 10 percent of those in the West -- to lower costs for pre-clinical tests on animals and clinical tests on humans.

As a result, Wang said, the basic cost of developing a drug in China could be as little as 5 million euros -- a fraction of the $800 million or more that multinational drug firms say it costs them to bring products to market in the West.

So far, there are only a handful of successful Chinese biotech companies, such as vaccine specialist Sinovac Biotech (SVA.A: Quote, Profile, Research) and SiBiono Gene Technology.

But the emergence of a pipeline of new drugs suggests more could follow, increasing the incentive for Western companies to tap into the country's science base.

Several major drug companies already have a research presence in the country, including Switzerland's Roche Holding AG (ROG.VX: Quote, Profile, Research) and Novo Nordisk (NOVOb.CO: Quote, Profile, Research), both of which have a strong focus in biotech.

oneman28 · 10-09-2005, 13:08 PM

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BEIJING: China has developed an indigenous and cheaper typing reagent of haematopoietic stem cell, which could help to cure leukaemia, military medical experts said.

This could be a bio-chip thing or related as I understand.

More details:
China stem cell feat raises hope

oneman28 · 10-09-2005, 20:54 PM

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Fifteen volunteers were injected with Chinese home made AIDS vaccine Sunday in Nanning, capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, a signal China's phase one AIDS vaccine trial test has entered the final phase, said a Chinese medical expert.

more details:

China's phase one AIDS vaccine trial nears end

oneman28 · 10-09-2005, 20:59 PM

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Chinese agronomists have cultivated a new variety of rice which has broken the world record with an average yield of 18,449.55 kilograms per hectare.

This uses the hybrid technology. Another GM super rice is in progress too.

This is important for China and many other developing countries. China is one of the leading countries who have big success stories in biological research and application in agriculture.

More details:

China cultivates record high-yield super rice

oneman28 · 10-09-2005, 21:05 PM

China and Japan cooperate in the 4G (4th generation) wireless research. Japanese wireless tech is high but it needs larger market. China lost in the 2G wireless and made big progress in 3G (TD-SDMA is one of the 3 international standards proposed by China's Datang and German's Simense. It is in commercial trial stage now)

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4G standardization efforts are expected to increase after 2007. In anticipation, Japan and China intend to collaborate, said the Japanese official.

More details:

Japan, China to collaborate on 4G mobile

oneman28 · 10-09-2005, 21:08 PM

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Chinese researchers say they have developed genetically modified (GM) cotton that yields up to 25 per cent more than current GM varieties.

This pest-resistant GM cotton is another big progress of biotech in agriculture in China.

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

oneman28 · 10-09-2005, 21:19 PM

http://www.checkbiotech.org/root/ind...1&fullsearch=0

This uses the GM technology.

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BEIJING - China could be the first country in the world to approve genetically modified (GM) rice.

The State Agricultural GM Crop Biosafety Committe, the technical body which evaluates GM rice for research and marketing, is likely to meet in November, according to insiders - and Chinese scientists are confident of the progress they have made.

On the agenda will be four varieties of GM rice developed by Chinese scientists - three insect-resistant varieties and a fourth which can withstand bacterial blight. The four breeds have been undergoing pre-production safety evaluation since last December and the committee's decision is the last step before commercialization. "China's GM rice technologies lead the world and they are very mature for commercialization," said Zhen Zhu, a leading rice scientist and deputy director of the Bureau of Life Sciences and Biotechnology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

A research report published in the prestigious Science magazine revealed that insect-resistant GM rice reduces pesticide use by nearly 80 per cent. Also, the yield goes up by 6-9 per cent.

oneman28 · 10-09-2005, 21:24 PM

http://www.checkbiotech.org/root/ind...6&fullsearch=0

It did not tell what kind of tech used in this research.

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Beijing - Chinese scientists have cultivated a new species of high-yield "super maize" as the country seeks ways to adequately feed its huge population of over one billion, state media reported on Tuesday.

The new strain has an average per-hectare yield of almost 15 000kg, according to the Xinhua news agency, citing the Zhengzhou city grain wholesale market.

Its development follows hot on the heels of announcements that China is on the verge of introducing genetically-engineered rice on a large scale.

"The high-yield, high-quality 'super maize' will be of great significance in boosting China's food grain production, which is regarded as another major breakthrough in the agro-scientific research following the development of 'super rice'," Xinhua said.

Experts forecast that China could produce an extra six billion kilograms of maize annually once the new strain is introduced.

Shrinking acreage, falling water tables and a population that is expected to grow significantly beyond 1.3 billion are factors that have led China to explore other ways to feed its people.

oneman28 · 10-10-2005, 02:31 AM

China is making progress in the high-tech industries. But China still has long way to go.

China is one of the leading countries in Nano, superconduct material research.

http://washingtontimes.com/commentar...0641-1595r.htm

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By Ernest H. Preeg
September 9, 2005

In April 2005, Premier Wen Jiabao summarized the Chinese economic strategy in starkest terms: "Science and technology are the decisive factors in the competition of comprehensive economic strength. ... We must introduce and learn from the world's achievements in advanced science and technology, but what is most important is to base ourselves on independent innovation ... [which] is the national strategy."
China has pursued this advanced technology strategy since 1995 with impressive results. Research and development (R&D) has grown more than 20 percent yearly compared with 6 percent in the United States and 5 percent in Europe and Japan. University students have tripled, and China now graduates 6 times as many engineers as the United States.
Chinese exports are the bottom-line indicator of competitive economic performance. Chinese exports doubled from 2001 to 2004, with more than half of total exports now in high-technology industries. China passed Japan in 2004 to become the third-largest exporting nation, and is headed to become the No. 1 exporter in three to five years.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) has been the decisive catalyst for Chinese advanced technology development up to this point, with a $61 billion inflow in 2004, led by Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and the United States. Foreign companies accounted for 57 percent of total Chinese exports in 2004 and have established more than 700 R&D centers in China, mostly linked to Chinese universities and companies.
John Chambers, chief executive officer of Cisco, the No. 1 U.S. computer equipment producer, told a Beijing audience China will be the world's information technology center.
Premier Wen's Stage 2 objective of independent Chinese innovation also is beginning to bear fruit. Chinese firms, such as Huawei for telecommunications equipment and Lenovo for computers, are growing rapidly, based on an increasingly export-oriented strategy of brand-name recognition, product quality reputation and a large, leading edge R&D program.
Examples of Chinese advanced technology innovation are the planned launch of more than 100 satellites to form a global Earth observation system, the Dawning 4,000-A Shanghai supercomputer, and the Godson II central processing unit computing chip to support the 64-bit Linux operating system.
A U.S. "future of innovation" task force concluded, in February 2005, that China "has been investing heavily in nanotechnology and already leads the U.S. in some areas... and is making rapid progress in biotechnology."
Emergence of China as an advanced technology superstate fundamentally changes the world economic structure. The new order centers on three such superstates -- the United States, the European Union and China -- each with deepening regional trade and investment linkages. The three regions of North America, West Europe and East Asia, account for 79 percent of global gross domestic product and 85 percent of global exports, with China-centered East Asia the fastest-growing.
The Chinese economic strategy, as presented by Premier Wen, requires an equally forceful U.S. strategy to maintain America's longstanding leadership position in technology innovation and application. It cannot be overstated that this has major national security as well as commercial implications.
A U.S. protectionist strategy won't work because it will increase the cost of U.S. innovation while opening further global export opportunities for China and others. The U.S. response needs to be free trade and market-oriented, involving mutually supportive international and domestic economic policy actions.
Internationally, the most urgent focus should be on the "currency manipulation" issue, whereby China and other East Asians maintain exchange rates far below market-based levels, and thus gain a large competitive trade advantage. The Chinese trade surplus is on track to quadruple this year to $140 billion, or 8 percent of GDP, which would require a substantial increase in earlier 25-50 percent estimates of yuan undervaluation.

Trade policy initiatives should seek fair and open access to foreign markets and further mutual reduction of trade barriers. Priorities for improved access to the Chinese market include protection of intellectual property and nondiscrimination in tax and regulatory policies for U.S. companies.
A particular threat to U.S. exports are recent initiatives by China and other East Asians to form free trade agreements without the United States, which the U.S. should counter with further free trade agreements across the Pacific, beginning with Thailand, South Korea and Taiwan.
The domestic economic agenda should involve improved educational performance, particularly in math and science, public sector R&D targeted more on technology innovation, and other policy actions related to the corporate tax structure, tort litigation and government regulation that put U.S. companies at a cost disadvantage with foreign competitors.
An overarching domestic economic objective is an increased national savings rate, to reduce the trade deficit, 85 percent borne by the technology-generating manufacturing sector.
The principal U.S. weakness now is lack of national purpose, which is needed to carry out a forward-looking policy agenda. This requires strong political leadership, in both the executive and legislative branches, which has been sadly lacking.
Napoleon is credited with the comment: "Let China sleep, for when she awakens, the whole world will tremble." China has now awakened as an advanced technology superstate, which should be a wake-up call for the United States as well.

Ernest H. Preeg is senior fellow in trade and productivity at the Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI, and author of "The Emerging Chinese Advanced Technology Superstate" (MAPI and the Hudson Institute, July 2005), on which this article was based.

oneman28 · 10-10-2005, 02:39 AM

http://english.people.com.cn/200510/...10_213541.html

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newly invented TD-SCDMA 3G mobile-phone chipsets with 0.13 micron technology in Chongqing University of Post and Telecommunications in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality October 9, 2005. The invention of the small-size chipset that features low energy consumption and multifunction performance marks China has reached a new level in 3G communications chipset technology.

oneman28 · 10-10-2005, 03:35 AM

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...nt_3584189.htm

A 4 TFLOPS supercomputer for bioinformatics was jointly developed by China Acdamy of Science and China Downing company.

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BEIJING, Oct. 5 (Xinhuanet) -- The Beijing Genome Institute and the Computing Technology Institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have developed, through combined efforts, a super server for bioinformatics.

Xu Zhiwei, deputy director of the Institute of Computing Technology who leads the research project, said the super server, coded as 4000H, is specially designed for bioinformatic research.

"With comparatively low cost," Xu said, "we have achieved high performance of the super server."

The system has 90 central processing units and 10 special accelerators, which ensure the performance capability of more than four trillion times per second.

The researchers have also developed a series of software which is suitable for bioinformatics.

The super server has already been employed in the precise mapping of rice genome and the draft mapping of silkworm genome.

The research team has applied for three invention patents, withone being granted, and gained four software invention registrations. Enditem

oneman28 · 10-10-2005, 12:52 PM

Kingdee is an enterprise software company in China. It also have middleware products.

Middleware is the base for applications and can be used by other software company.

http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflas...0040426.3.html

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SUN MICROSYSTEMS AND KINGDEE EXPAND CHINA MARKET FOR JAVA ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGIES
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- April 26, 2004 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc., the inventor of the Java technology platform, today announced that Shenzhen Kingdee Middleware Co., Ltd. (Kingdee Middleware) of the People's Republic of China has licensed the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) version 1.4. As a leading middleware provider in China and supporter of Windows technology, three tier component architecture and Internet- and J2EE-based technology, Kingdee Middleware enjoys a leading position throughout China in Java-based core technology solutions and application development.

Today's announcement adds to the worldwide adoption of the J2EE version 1.4 specification and expands the Web services market in China. With more than four million downloads and over 35 licensees, the J2EE platform and Software Developer Kit (SDK) are well established as the popular choice and premier platform for Java and Web services development.

"We are very pleased that Kingdee Middleware has licensed the J2EE 1.4 technology and will lead the adoption of the standard for Java Web services throughout Asia," said Mark Bauhaus, vice president of Java Web Services for Sun Microsystems. "Kingdee's expertise and reputation for product leadership will provide a powerful and competitive infrastructure software platform for their customers."

"In China, quite a few excellent software providers including Kingdee have been gradually maturating in J2EE technology. Intended to take a position in the world, China's software products must be equipped with world-leading technology. Now, technology is not a problem since we have launched our own application server with independent intellectual property rights, and have been benefitting from its great market value," said Mr. Xu Shao Chun, president and CEO of Kingdee International Software Group ("Kingdee"). "In the future, Kingdee Middleware will be continuously devoted to the research of J2EE and middleware technology, develop middleware products more suitable for market and customers' requirements, and committed to being the best and most competitive infrastructure platform vendor in China and enable customers' success."

Apusic Application Server, the flagship product from Kingdee Middleware, acts as an effective and highly reliable platform for customers to run, implement, and develop distributed applications when constructing new business systems. Since the successful launch of the Apusic Application Server version 1.0 in December 2000, Kingdee Middleware has continually evolved over the past four years to build on the latest technology specifications and customer requirements. Apusic Application Server has been implemented by many customers such as The People's Bank of China, Guangdong Administration for Industry & Commerce, Shenzhen Municipal People's Government, Chenzhou Municipal People's Government, Beijing Highway Bureau, Xiamen Highway Bureau, Guangzhou Dongshan District Government, etc., which has aggressively promoted China's informatization construction.

Today's announcement was made at the J2EE 1.4 Kickoff Event in San Francisco where industry leading J2EE technology vendors joined to discuss the future of the Java Enterprise platform. For more information about the J2EE 1.4 Kickoff, visit: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/presskits/j2ee14/. For more information about the Java Enterprise platform or to download the J2EE 1.4 SDK, visit http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/.

Shenzhen Kingdee Middleware Co., Ltd. ("Kingdee Middleware") was founded in July 2000 from its predecessor -- Central Research Institute of Kingdee International Software Group ("Kingdee Group"). It is a subsidiary of Kingdee Group and a member of Middleware Branch of China Software Industry Association.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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oneman28 · 10-10-2005, 13:11 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2005/BUSINESS/09/...ft.china.reut/

Microsft is going to CHina since GOOGLE is opening a big R&D center in Beijing. Google goes to China because there is a Chinese search engine Baidu.com which is more popular in CHina market. This is basically a chain reaction.

M$ has its own R&D center in China.

Langchao is a large company in building servers, supercomputers, system integrationa and software development for CHina market.

ChinaSoft is a company in Dalian city which will be a outsourcing center.

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Tuesday, September 27, 2005; Posted: 12:12 a.m. EDT (04:12 GMT)

SHANGHAI, China (Reuters) -- Microsoft said it is investing $20 million in Chinasoft International Ltd., the latest in a recent flurry of moves in China for the world's top software company after several years of relative quiet.

U.S.-based Microsoft said it is co-investing in Chinasoft with International Finance Corp., the World Bank's private sector arm, which is putting in another $15 million as it steps up its Chinese investments, according to an announcement released late on Monday.

Trading in Chinasoft's shares were suspended on Monday pending an announcement about a transaction involving a new share issue. No further details were immediately available.

Chinasoft will use the investment to develop its core business capabilities and accelerate its expansion into international markets, according to the announcement.

"Today's investment is part of our commitment made ... in 2002 to support China's software industry," Microsoft said in a statement, referring to a 2002 pledge by the company to invest 6.2 billion yuan ($766 million) in China.

Last week, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates joined 17,000 company workers in Seattle as Microsoft celebrated its 30th anniiversary.

The company has been relatively quiet in China until this year, when it formed several new partnerships. At the same time, a former top executive discussed frustrations with his work in China prior to his recent departure.

In May, Microsoft announced the formation of two new ventures for its MSN Internet service in China, saying the development would allow it to offer "the full gamut of a true Internet portal" services in the market.

One of those ventures involved its acquisition of assets from a provider of software for mobile phones, as it sought to tap the country's vast market of 370 million mobile phone users.

In July, Microsoft also agreed to invest $25 million in Hong Kong-listed Lang Chao International Ltd., a unit of a larger Chinese software maker.
Before the latest flurry of deals, the company had made few major announcements in the market.

A former company vice president, Kai-Fu Lee, said in testimony earlier this month that his recent departure from Microsoft came after becoming frustrated with the company's approach to China.

Lee, 43, had previously established Microsoft's research and development centre in Beijing.

His testimony came during a lawsuit by Microsoft in the United States aiming to stop Lee from working for search rival Google on the grounds that he possessed confidential information from his time working at Microsoft.

A judge finally cleared the way for Lee to work for Google in China, but placed tough restrictions on confidential information he had gleaned while working for Microsoft.

oneman28 · 10-10-2005, 13:52 PM

http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content...at=4&id=349288

Kingsoft began with its pretigeous WPS (word processing system) in DOS era. It was installed on almost every PC in China before M$ office came out. Recently, it launched WPS office 2005 which is claimed capatiable with M$'s word, excel, powerpoint. It can also convert you document into PDF file by clicking button (professional version)

KingSoft's products covers office, anti-virus, games, and translation software.

KingSoft opened an office in Japan recently.

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Thursday, September 15, 2005 at 07:41 JST
TOKYO — China's major software company Kingsoft Corp on Wednesday started offering its popular anti-virus software for free on the Internet, becoming the first Chinese company to make a full-scale entry into the Japanese computer software market, its Japanese arm said.

The software that can be downloaded from the Internet is the Japanese version of the most popular anti-virus software in China, Kingsoft Japan Corp said. The first 1 million people to download the software get free use of it for one year, while everyone else who downloads it gets six months' free use, the company said. After the free period expires, the renewal fee will be 980 yen a year, the company said.

http://www.eworksglobal.com/erp_127725244877812500.htm

Kingsoft Launches Word Power 2006

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Resource:ChinaTechNews
9-6-2005

Kingsoft has started distribution of its Kingsoft Word Power 2006 and Kingsoft Quick Translation 2006 software.

Different from the past versions, the new software has Chinese to Japanese translation abilities and an upgraded Chinese to English translation module.

Wang Quanguo, vice CEO of Kingsoft, told the local media that in addition to including the content of more than 150 dictionaries and over 70 professional word stocks, Kingsoft Word Power 2006 had also upgraded the American Traditional Dictionary in the software.

The software can be used on Windows, Linux, Mac OS, mobile phones and PDAs.

Kingsoft also made a surprising announcement. It will place its 64-bit Kingsoft Anti-virus Power 2005 software online for users to download for free.

oneman28 · 10-10-2005, 13:55 PM

http://au.news.yahoo.com/050926/3/w3he.html

The work in the operating system, database system and middleware will be paid off sooner or later. These are the fundation of IT.

China did well before. China's Chinese-version DOS and DBase (dababase system) was more popular than their owner's Chinese version in China's market.

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BEIJING, Sept 26 Asia Pulse - A complete range of basic software systems are now developed in China.

The range covers operating systems (OS), database management systems (DBMS), middleware and office software.

Operating systems include the Galaxy Kylin OS, Red flag Linux, Neoshine Linux (by CHINA STANDARD SOFTWARE CO., LTD), and the embedded OS such as Hopen, Delta OS, Smart OS.

DBMS include Neusoft OpenBASE, DM (by WUHAN HUST DM DATABASE CO., LTD) and Kingbase ES and OSCAR (by BEIJING SHENZHOU AEROSPACE SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD).

Office software includes EIoffice (by EVERMORE SOFTWARE) and Kingsoft WPS and Redoffice (by CHINESE 2000).

And middleware includes Orientware.

Statistics show that in 2004, China's provincial governments bought 115,000 sets of OS, including 45,000 homemade, accounting for 39.2 per cent of the total; and 410,000 sets of office ware, including 280,000 homemade, occupying 68.4 per cent of the total.

Homemade middleware occupies 35 per cent of the total domestic market.

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