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• 07.06.08 China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: India, China, and Brazil sees highest jump in millionaires
  
  "India, China, and Brazil saw bigger growth in the millionaire population last year than anywhere else, and wealth in the Asia-Pacific is expected to grow nearly 8 percent a year to 2012 despite a slowdown in the world at large, a survey showed. The number of millionaires in the Asia-Pacific grew 8.7 percent from a year ago to 2.8 million people and their combined wealth soared 12.5 percent to $9.5 trillion US dollars, excluding the value of their homes and consumables, Merrill Lynch and Capgemini said at a news conference in Singapore recently..."  read on
  
  posted in population, brazil, korea, india, living, china, socialism, consumer behavior, trends, wealth
• 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
• 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
  
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• 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
  
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• 04.05.08 China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: 15 million private cars on chinese roads
  
  "According to the China's National Bureau of Statistics report -- 2007 national economic and social development statistical communique -- China's total number of privately-owned vehicles increased 32.5% to 15.22 million. The communique points out that by the end of 2007, the total number of civilian vehicles reached 56.97 million (including 14.68 million three-wheel motor vehicles and low-speed vehicles): a growth of 14.3% over the previous year. Among them, 35.34 million are private cars: an increase of 20.8%. There are 19.58 million civilian cars, an increase of 26.7%, 15.22 million of which are private cars."  read on
  
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• 03.15.08 Finance industry employees in China top salary rankings
  
  "Employees in the financial sector earned much more than workers in other industries last year thanks to the lucrative financial market, an annual salary report has revealed. The report, released by leading human-resources service provider Zhaopin.com in Shanghai, was based on a survey of more than 1,000 companies across all sectors throughout the country last year. It found workers in the financial industry were paid an average salary of 4,987 yuan (US$694) per month. The figure is about 40 percent higher than the national average...."  read on
  
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• 03.15.08 China software industry reports 20% rise in revenue
  
  "China's software sector generated 580 billion yuan (about 80.8 billion U.S. dollars) in revenue in 2007, an annual increase of 20.8 percent, the Ministry of Information Industry reported: sales of software products surged 22.5 percent to 201.7 billion yuan, while system integration income rose 16 percent to 147.8 billion yuan (nearly 21 billion US dollars). The income of software and information technology services hit 97.8 billion yuan (over 13 billion US Dollars), up 24.8 percent. Revenues of embedded system software hit 115.5 billion yuan (around 16 billion US dollars), up 21.8 percent year on year..."  read on
  
  posted in china, software, market, information technology, trends, gaming, e-commerce, wealth, economics
• 03.02.08 Internet in China: consumption expected to rise 45.8% in 2008
  
  "China's Internet consumption hit 398.8 billion yuan (53.89 billion U.S. dollars) last year and is expected to reach 581.5 billion yuan in 2008, up 45.8 percent, according to a survey released recently. The "Netguide 2008" survey, which provides a wrap-up of China's2007 cyber world, polled more than 300 web sites and about 200 enterprises, with 50,786 interviewees around the country..."  read on
  
  posted in information technology, china, market, trends, consumer behavior, e-commerce, wealth, internet
• 02.13.08 Chinese People and Their Mobile Phones: sending 17 billion text messages during Spring Festival
  
  "Chinese mobile phone operators will benefit from the country's tradition of exchanging greetings during Lunar New Year as more than 17 billion text messages are expected to be sent during the holiday season, a possible new record, according to the Ministry of Information Industry. The ministry attributed the drastic rise to rapid expansion of mobile phone users which totaled 547 million by the end of 2007, about 41.6 percent of the total population..."  read on
  
  posted in china, industry, information technology, trends, economics, wealth, mobile
• 02.13.08 China’s phone subscribers to hit 976 million in 2008
  
  "China's phone subscribers, mobile and fixed line combined, are expected to grow by more than 60 million in 2008 to hit a total of 976 million, according to the Ministry of Information Industry. By the end of this year, China's fixed-line and mobile phone subscribers will account for 27.1 percent and 46.4 percent of the population, respectively. The continuous falling of mobile communication charges has directly led to a sharp increase in mobile phone subscribers and some people even replaced their fixed-lines with mobile phones. In 2007, China's mobile phone subscribers increased by 86.22 million, while fixed-line subscribers fell by 2.33 million..."  read on
  
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