Global Sourcing Portal,China Sourcing New Service!

The Association first concentrated on enhancing the reputation of Wenzhou shoe products. Now the Association has 1138 member enterprises and 26 association branches. Since its establishment the Association has made great efforts to improve shoe quality by training on production and design and introduction of advanced equipment. It organized local managers to visit their counterparts in the US Italy and Korea and has also helped member enterprises to expand sales channels--with annual shoe exhibitions in cities around China since 1996 and by contact with foreign customers such as the trade association of Italy. Its International Shoe Equipment Material and Technology Exhibition has become one of the most professional exhibitions in Asia. Recently the Association organized development of an electronic information network. The Association also works as a bridge agency between the shoe industry and the government passing policy to enterprises and transmitting the requirements of enterprises to the government.

Clusters in consumer goods manufacturers in Guangdong Province developed differently to some extent to Zhejiang. Guangdong's cluster development can be traced back to Hong Kong investment. Hong Kong has been well known as 'a low-tech but high-IQ' regional center and earlier in the reforms many international firms allied with Hong Kong companies to gain access to the China market. Hong Kong was and still is the largest 'foreign' investor in Guangdong province as well as in Mainland China. By means of 'export processing trade,' (4) or Sanlaiyibu promoted by the Chinese government a large number of Hong Kong firms clustered in areas of Guangdong to continue their export-oriented production. The huge output value coming from these production bases has contributed partly to China's becoming one of the world's largest manufacturing countries. It was via Hong Kong that Peal River Delta (PRD) from this province and surrounding areas accelerated integration into global production chains.

The most influential exponent of specialized industrial localization is Porter (1990; 1998) whose notion of industrial cluster has rapidly become the analytical concept and policy tool. Porter (1998) defines an industrial cluster as 'a geographically proximate group of interconnected companies and associated institutions in a particular field linked by commonalties and complementarities'. Porter also points out that geographic cultural and institutional proximity provides companies with special access closer relationships better information powerful incentives and other advantages that are difficult to tap from a distance. The more complex knowledgebased and dynamic the world economy becomes the more this is true. Competitive advantage lies increasingly in local aspects--knowledge relationships and motivation--that distant rivals cannot replicate.

This paper provides a pilot study of the development of consumer-goods manufacturing cluster in China and is divided into five sections. The first section introduces the contribution of 'made-in-China' to the global economy. In the second the context of the theory of agglomeration and cluster are briefly reviewed. Subsequently the paper draws a general picture of the development of China's consumer-goods manufacturing clusters and illustrates these in two representative provinces--Zhejiang and Guangdong--in the third section. The fourth section analyses the case of Wenzhou footwear industrial cluster in detail. Finally the paper discusses some problems facing Chinese consumer-goods manufacturing clusters and calls attention to their need for innovation and upgrade

Published Date Number of Pages Publisher Price Nov/2007 98 Bizinform $2,500 (PDF) $2,400 (Hard Copy) Contact:Bizmanes@gmail.com / chinasourcing@msn.com

Quanta has its customers the most widely scattered with orders from the world's top 10 laptop manufacturers. Compal has three major customers, namely DELL, HP and Acer. Wistron has four main clients, like DELL, HP, Acer and Lenovo. Inventec has two customers like Toshiba and HP. ASUS has two major customers, namely, Sony and Apple.

Panels below 10-inch are termed by the market as the medium- and small-sized panels.

The report analyses the general situation of China trust industry and forecasts its developmental trend. It makes a detailed research on the launch and the yield as well as the investment of the fund. Finally, it also makes a specific introduction of 28 trust companies with financial license and 20 ones without financial license.

Status Quo of the Industry: As macro-economy keeps growing and demands downstream continue increasing since 2007, the price of chemical products takes a sustained ascending trend and the industrial profit has risen steadily. From Jan to Aug 2007, China chemical industry achieved the sales revenue of RMB 1,653 billion, up 31.61% year on year. Its growth rate doubled that the same period of 2006.

In the past decade, the pesticide industry in China had developed rapidly, the pesticide output has almost doubled, and its variety increased by times as well. In 2007, with policy support and market stimulation, pesticide production still maintained rapid growth. However, as agricultural production relies much on season, the monthly output of pesticide fluctuated with season. Things are particularly true with the monthly output of antiseptic, gap between maximum and minimum was about 87.28 percentage points.

The report analyzes and forecasts the situation and development of China’s IC card market, and researches six key IC card chip suppliers in the world, as well as nearly 50 IC card chip, COS, card packaging manufacturers and IC card relevant equipment manufacturers in China.

China is one of the five key synthetic resin consumption countries in the world. Since 2007, because the downstream demand increases rapidly, the production of synthetic resin has been on a steady ascending trend. The output of polypropylene has a sharp increase, which had an obvious effect on promoting the total output of synthetic resin. From Jan. to Oct. of 2007, the national accumulative output of synthetic resin reached 22.5 million tons, up 18.48% year on year and its growth rate was 0.55 percentage points higher than the same period of last year, of which, the accumulative output of PVC resin reached 7.2 million tons, up 20.37% year on year and its growth rate was 2.91 percentage points lower than the same period of last year; the accumulative output of polythene resin and polypropylene resin respectively reached 5.1 million tons and 5.2 million tons, up 17.29% and 22.82% year on year respectively and their growth rate respectively increased 2.68 percentage points and 7.17 percentage points than the same period of last year.

China's equity investment has developed much rapidly in the past several years. In 2002, China's total equity investment was only US$534 million, but it already reached US$2.18 billion in 2006.

The consumer electronic products mainly include laptop, TV, portable multimedia player, digital camera, cell phone and digital vidicon, of which, there are professional case and structure manufacturers for laptops and digital cameras while there are few for other consumer electronics. In the TV field, most TV manufacturers have the ability to design and manufacture the injection molding cases, but only a few of them can manufacture RHCM technology cases adopted by the latest high-grade TV. With the development of the technology for manufacturing TV case, the TV manufacturers may outsource the production of high-class cases in the future.

The report probes into China insurance industry by starting with the status quo of insurance market. It makes comprehensive analysis of the insurance segment markets involving the supervision policy, market environment, operation, competitive structure, utility of the insurance capital as well as the development trend. The report interprets the status quo of investment and merger in insurance industry, describes the characteristics, analyzes the motivations and influences brought along by merger, but also makes suggestions for both insurance institutions and investors.

With the continuous buildup in the revenue proportion of the intermediary business to bank's total, developing the intermediary business has become the priority of the banking industry. At present, the ratio of non-interest revenue to the bank's total in major countries is all around 20% and that of some individual banks is even as high as 70%. So the non-interest revenue has become an extremely important factor in deciding the total revenue of a bank. Our research shows that the average ratio of non-interest revenue to the total of a bank in the United States of America and Canada is 45%, that in European countries is 44% and that in Australia is 28%. The more developed a country's economy is, the higher the ratio of non-interest revenue will be in the country.  

The total revenue from stocks and stock linked underwriting business in China securities market reached RMB11.4 billion in 2007, of which, the underwriting revenue from IPO was RMB9 billion, the revenue from public offering increase RMB1.4 billion, the revenue from share allotment underwriting RMB480 million, the revenue from underwriting of convertible bonds RMB590 million. As for China International Capital Corporation Limited, the underwriting revenue in 2007 reached RMB 2.7 billion, occupying 30% of the total market shares.

On Jan. 18th of 2008, Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China and Ministry of Health of China jointly issued the document to intensify the efforts to carry out the inoculation of rabies vaccine and rabies immunization. Chinese people died of canine madness occupy 30% of the total died of infectious diseases in the past three years. Inoculation of the rabies vaccine is the most effective way to prevent the canine madness. However, the previous problem is that the immunization coverage rate only covers 10%. Therefore, the rabies vaccine has become the fifth compulsory variety of immunity after the foot-and-mouth disease, bird flu, blue ear disease and hog cholera. As for the utility of the rabies vaccine, attenuated vaccine has been banned to use because of its inherent deficiency. In the future the inactivated vaccine may be used, however the market capacity and the manufacturers' benefit will be determined by the launch of the detailed rules concerning vaccine varieties, vaccine prices and quantity used.

Important point overview     6 The first part Definition and classification     7Chapter One The definition and the classification of the mobile phone battery     8Section One The definition of the mobile phone battery     8Section Two The classification and characteristic of mobile phone battery    13

BEIJING, Sept. 9 -- Beijing Vice-Mayor Zhang Mao called yesterday for the city to save energy and develop more recyclable resources.

The city of Beijing, China’s second-largest energy consumer, has announced plans to build a “solar street” where buildings, streetlights, and other features will run entirely on energy from the sun. A second pilot project in the city’s Xuanwu Park will introduce solar power for lighting, heating, and refrigeration. Both projects reflect a larger government commitment to dramatically increase China’s use of renewable energy in the coming decades.

Chinese scientists are to train 10,000 technicians from African and other developing countries in the use of solar energy technologies over the next five years.

Over 3,000 farmers and herdsmen cheered as the country's largest solar power station began operation in a pasture inhabited by people of the Kazak nationality in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, northwest China.

Hong Kong investors this month have frantically dumped stocks with too much U.S. exposure, and computer maker Lenovo has been one of the biggest targets. The stock of the world's No. 4 PC maker has plunged 35% in January alone, far worse than the 13.5% drop for Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index. Lenovo had further to fall, since the shares had jumped 52% in the second half of last year, but with some investors taking profits, and others worried about PC sales during a U.S.-led global slowdown, Lenovo has suffered much more than its main rivals. Hewlett Packard (HPQ) is down 13%, Dell (DELL) is off 18%, and Acer is down 21%.

Apple (AAPL) and China Mobile seemed like such natural partners. Apple, whose iPod has eclipsed all rivals, has been shaking up the telecom industry with its iPhone since last June. Like Apple, China Mobile enjoys overwhelming dominance in its market. Apple is king of the hill in digital music players while China Mobile rules in the world's largest cellular market. China Mobile's 370 million subscribers make the state-owned operator the world's largest mobile-service provider.

The Beijing-based company, which ranks as China's No. 2 telecommunications provider, raised nearly $4.92 billion after pricing 234 million American depository receipts (ADRs) and 123 million common shares in Hong Kong. The ADRs, which each represent 10 ordinary shares, were priced at $19.99 each in a sale led by underwriter Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.

China's Growing Cell Phone MarketAlmost 40 percent of Chinese own mobile phones, and the number of subscribers is likely to hit 500 million before the end of June.

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the comparisons of bank regulation between the U.S. and China at present. The main five aspects of the contrasts are the permission of commercial banks dealing with insurance and security business, deposit insurance, price deregulation, capital ratio and examination rating system. The aim of the paper is contributed to the research on how to make appropriate reforms and development in our bank regulation system along with the quickly changing economic conditions. So by comparison with different bank regulation focuses between the U.S. and China nowadays, the author analyzes the rationale for bank regulation and predicts some future tendencies for China to consummate its bank regulation system gradually.

In recent years, a great number of overseas orders of craftwork and gifts have been transferred to China, mainly from the European and USA general merchandise industry, multinational chain supermarkets, and professional distributors, etc. Meanwhile, Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and the World Expo Shanghai 2010 will also bring great business opportunities to the craftwork and gifts industry.

Only two decades ago, China was a poor agricultural country; now it becomes the third-largest economy in the world, with a GDP of more than $2, 108 billion in 2006. Experts forecast that by 2020, China will be the world's largest economy.

China steps up curbs on process trade .

It’s amazing how China has its doors now opened to international enterprises and how it has now sought to expand its businesses outside. One of its companies even took over a western giant a while back. China used to be a closed off nation and a “sleeping giant” but is now wide awake and ready to take on the international business center stage to do a Beyonce Knowles number. Here are a few reasons why it’s difficult to ignore China these days:

The Chinese Information Technology (IT) outsource software services sector is a USD $1.5 billion1 market with an annual growth rate of 30%2.   The sector can be characterized as being in the same position as India was 12 years ago, with a large supply of low cost workers and a huge internal market in which to base a outsource services sector.  The Chinese software services industry would like to follow the same development path that Indian firms took and leverage China's vast supply of cheap programming talent and growing English language skills.  However, due to a lack of entrepreneurial, managerial, and technical skills in the software sector, Chinese companies lag far behind larger, more established companies in India and the Philippines.  The immaturity of the Chinese software market, coupled with the large demand from China's big domestic market means that China will have a hard time replicating the success in exporting software services that other Asian nations have achieved.   Source: Computerworld, September 15, 2003

After over 20 years' development, china lamp industry rise very fast, the amount of company grows from the first decades to about 10,000 now, China has become a large country of producing lamp in the world. Most of the light producers are concentrated in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Jiangsu and so on, and turnout of these four provinces takes upwards of 70% of the total output in China.