- Rising China faces challenges to national innovationgoals.
Products manufactured in China are now ubiquitous in the global economy. Yet, how many Westerners who buy these products can list major Chinese companies like Sinopec, China National Petroleum, China Mobile Communications, or Shanghai Automotive? How many can name the best Chinese entrepreneurs, inventors or scientists? China also is poised ......
- High-tech manufacturers flock to China's Suzhou
region. (Perspectives).
The Yangtze River basin city of Suzhou has belonged totally to China for the past 2,500 years, but today it looks like San Jose, California in the early 1990s. One-time fish farms and cropland on two sides of the city are mushrooming into high-tech industrial parks for foreign-financed companies because ......
- China's expanding electronics
industry.
Visits Circuits Assembly had the privilege of recently visiting two electronics manufacturing services (EMS) providers located in the Shanghai area. Both are also currently in the process of expanding manufacturing operations in China. Flextronics Flectronics (Shanghai, China) has a long-established and strong foothold in China, and Circuits Assembly was able ......
- Interview with Wang Xiaochu, Chairman/CEO, China Mobile, Wang Jianzhou, Executive Director/President, China Unicom
The city of Hangzhou, southwest of Shanghai, has serious wireless pedigree. Both Wang Xiaochu and Wang Jianzhou, the respective heads of China Mobile and China Unicom, have served as deputy director and director of the Hangzhou Telecommunications Bureau. From there they have risen to preside over the world's largest mobile ......
- Freescale opens China-based design center to drive 3G mobile technologies
Expanding its operations in China, Freescale Semiconductor Inc. http://www.freescale.com announced this week the opening of a new design center in Chengdu that will focus on 3G TD-SCDMA mobile technology. In a statement made Thursday, Freescale's top brass minced no words in expressing enthusiasm for the Chinese market. "Asia represents the ......
- RFMD adds R&D to Shanghai plant
To expand its R&D efforts while strengthening operations across Greater China as a source for design, manufacturing, supply chain, sales and field applications engineering support, Greensboro, N.C.-based mobile communications chip supplier RF Micro Devices Inc. http://www.rfmd.com (RFMD) said today it has added an R&D center in its Shanghai, China facility, ......
- Asia: Shanghai Industrial ADRs begin trading
Hong Kong-based Shanghai Industrial Holdings' ADRs began trading in the over-the-counter market on May 30. The red-chip conglomerate manufactures and distributes consumer products. It is raising funds to invest in the logistics, information technology, and biotechnology sectors. Red chips are Chinese companies incorporated in Hong Kong. Under Chinese law, they ......