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• 06.22.08 Intellectual Property: Introduction of China’s Intellectual Property Strategy
  
  "China has promulgated its own intellectual property strategy, which is aimed at promoting innovation and the use of new technologies by China's industries. It's hoped that via the implementation of the strategy, all innovations will be respected and more wealth will be created..."  read on
  
  posted in industry, creativity, market, trade, intellectual property, wealth, china, innovation, economics
• 06.22.08 Internet in China: online shoppers spend 2.3 billion U.S. dollars in 1st half of 2008
  
  "Online Chinese shoppers spent 16.2 billion yuan (2.3 billion U.S. dollars) in 19 major cities in the first half of 2008, China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) said on recently. The findings were based on a survey carried out in four municipalities directly under the central government -- Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and Chongqing -- and 15 developed cities such as Changchun, Dalian, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Jinan and Guangzhou, among others..."  read on
  
  posted in beijing, alibaba, taobao, market, shanghai, china, e-commerce, consumer behavior, trends, information technology, internet
• 06.15.08 Internet in China: Google banks on Chinese market
  
  "Google expects its position as the world's most popular online search site and sales from fast-growing Asian markets, including China, to help the company weather any United States recession. "One of the very good sources for Google is the very rapid growth in Asia," said Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google, which gets almost all its revenue from advertising next to search results. Historically, people tend to shift their money to the most "highly measured" advertiser when there are "economic difficulties," he said recent at a briefing in Beijing."  read on
  
  posted in united states, market, baidu, google, china, trends, information technology, internet
• 05.31.08 China’s Software Industry Revenue Rises 31.2%
  
  "China's software industry income amounted to 193.55 billion yuan from January to April, up 31.2 percent year-on-year, and 11.4 percentage points higher than the electronic information industry, according to information released by the Ministry of Industry and Information. The revenue from software products accounted for 70.39 billion yuan (10.2 billion US dollars): it is still the main component of the software industry. Revenue from software technology services saw the fastest growth and amounted to 35.63 billion yuan (5.1 billion US dollars), growing by 48.2 percent year-on-year. Revenue from system integration increased by 23.8 percent to 46.07 billion yuan (6.7 billion US dollars); and the growth rate of revenues from embedded systems and IC design are relatively low..."  read on
  
  posted in market, software, china, information technology, economics
• 05.30.08 Chinese People and Their Mobile Phones: 6 Telecoms to Merge Their Assets
  
  "China has told its six telecommunications companies to merge their assets, allowing fixed-line carriers to expand into wireless services and creating three operators that will offer phone and Internet connections to 1.3 billion people. Under the plan, the parent of China Telecom will buy a mobile phone network from the parent of China Unicom, which in turn will merge with the company that controls the China Netcom Group, the Ministry of Industry and Information said in a statement on Saturday. China will issue three third-generation wireless licenses after the overhaul is completed, it said..."  read on
  
  posted in population, market, japan, korea, industry, hong kong, economics, wealth, information technology, china, mobile
• 04.14.08 Internet in China: World of Warcraft logs over 1 million concurrent players
  
  "Chinese online game operator The9 Limited has announced that Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft has logged more than 1 million concurrent players in mainland China alone, the highest concurrency since the game's official launch in China in June 2005. The9 is a major online game operator in China, and operated servers for World of Warcraft players in China. The9 attributes the growth of WOW gaming in China in part to The Burning Crusade expansion pack, which added significant new content to the game, bringing previous players back to the franchise while drawing new gamers in..."  read on
  
  posted in china, market, information technology, trends, gaming, internet
• 04.13.08 Living in China: Shanghai GDP increases 13.3% in 2007
  
  "Shanghai, the most powerful economic hub of China, achieved GDP of US$1.2 trillion in 2007, up 13.3% from a year earlier, marking a double-digit growth for 16 consecutive years, the Shanghai Statistics Bureau announced recently. The city's 2007 GDP per capita stood at US$8,594 in the local calculation method, said Pan Jianxin, director of Shanghai Bureau of Statistics. And in accordance with the international standards, the figure would hit US$8,949, said Pan..."  read on
  
  posted in living, industry, market, finance, trade, shanghai, wealth, trends, china, economics
• 04.12.08 Design in China: Shanghai to establish excellence center for branding and corporate identities
  
  "Shanghai industrial and commercial authorities will help companies develop brand logos to increase the number of local logos registered overseas to 20,000 by the year 2012, officials said recently. To help achieve the target, the Shanghai Bureau of Industrial and Commercial Administration said it would build a public service platform in the bureau. The platform would provide logo registration and design consultation, a legal service, value estimation and logo trade for companies..."  read on
  
  posted in creativity, market, trade, shanghai, china, intellectual property, design
• 04.09.08 Chinese People and their Mobile Phones: over 555 million mobile phone users
  
  "The number of new mobile subscribers hit a record high of 8.48 million in January, taking Chinese total mobile users to exceed 555 million, accounting for 41.6% of the country's population (user density), sending over 54 billion short messages, averaging 3.17 per phone number a day. The continuous falling of handset prices and user charges has directly led to a sharp increase in the number of mobile phone subscribers, Wang Lijian, a spokesman with the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) told Xinhua on recently..."  read on
  
  posted in population, market, china, information technology, consumer behavior, trends, mobile
• 04.05.08 Chinese People and Their Mobile Phones: China starts 3G commercial trials in 8 cities
  
  "The parent of China Mobile (0941.HK: Quote, Profile, Research), the country's top wireless operator, have started commercial trials of a homegrown third-generation wireless standard, TD-SCDMA, in eight cities on April 1, state media said recently. Shares in several Hong Kong-listed equipment vendors, including China Communications Services Corp Ltd (0552.HK: Quote, Profile, Research) and China Wireless Technologies Ltd (2369.HK: Quote, Profile, Research), rose on Friday, as investors anticipate heavy spending on telecoms gear. The commercial trials will help to improve TD-SCDMA technology, as well as provide better mobile services during the Beijing Olympics, according to Xinhua News agency."  read on
  
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