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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 [...]
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Internet in China: 59 million Online Gamers in 2008
The year-long survey, Netguide 2008, conducted by the Data Center of the China Internet (DCCI) and the Internet Society of China (ISC), polled more than 300 websites, 270 enterprises and 50,786 persons.Results suggest that the number of Chinese online gamers will likely surpass 59 million in 2008, a 20 percent increase on 2007’s 48 million, reports China View. The survey also found that the market value of Chinese online gaming in 2007 rocketed 57 percent from 2006’s 9.36 billion yuan (1.2 billion US dollars) [...]
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Beijing’s Migrant Population Swelling
Nearly one out of three people in Beijing belongs to the mobile population, according to the capital's population and family planning commission. The municipality's mobile population reached 5.4 million in October, accounting for nearly 30 percent of the total, according to a recent report by the commission's deputy director, Li Yunli...
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2007 Retrospective: Top 10 News Events in China
The following are the top 10 domestic news events in the year 2007 selected by Xinhua News, China's Official News Agency (in chronological order): 1. China's top legislature, the National People's Congress (NPC), adopted a landmark property law on March 16, granting equal protection to public and private properties. 2. Serious pollution caused a sudden stenchy algae outbreak in China's third largest freshwater lake Taihu in late May, cutting tap water supply to more than one million residents in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province...
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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: the world’s third-biggest vehicle producer
China may produce more than 8.6 million vehicles this year as it narrows the gap with Japan and the United States, the world's top two auto makers, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. China's economic growth, averaging about 10 percent over the past five years, is raising demand for automobiles and has boosted production from about 100,000 vehicles a year in the 1980s to 7.28 million last year, making the country the world's third-biggest vehicle producer [...]
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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior
With the opening to new markets and the growth of the Chinese economy, a new social class has emerged -- to some extend, unthinkable in a Communist China: the millionaires. According to a survey from Cap Gemini/Merrill Lynch, the number of millionaires (in US Dollars) in China have reached more than 230,000. The large majority of these new riches choose Shanghai to invest their money and also spend their money...
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e-Commerce in China: numbers and trends
China could become the world's biggest online market within two years: the number of Chinese netizens has surpassed 123 million and number of people with access to broadband connection rose by 45.3 percent during the first half of the year to 77 million. Studies show that a typical Chinese consumer spends an average of 17.9 hours per month (36 min./day) engaged in popular online activities such as chatting, blogging, gaming, and shopping [...]
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China: Technology, Innovation and the Environment
Since the beginning of its economical opening -- when the first 5-year plans were devised in 1979 -- China has being growing at an incredible speed, with its GNP numbers jumping from 44 billion dollars to 1.6 trillion dollars in just 20 years. Such growth has pushed the Chinese manufacturing industry into devouring huge amounts of natural resources in a alarming way: in 2004, China -- the 8th largest economy in GNP scale -- consumed 8% of all the oil, 31% of all the coal, 10% of all the electricity, 30% of all ore, 30% of all steel, 19% of all aluminum, 20% of all the copper and 40% of all cement produced in the world [...]
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Chinese People and their Mobile Phones: over 555 million mobile phone users