The ADB Board of Directors approved the establishment of a carbon market trust fund to boost the number of clean energy projects in Asia and the Pacific.
Alcatel today announced that it been awarded a full-scale, nationwide IP network deployment project by China Mobile Communications Corporation, the largest mobile communication services provider in China. The deployment of Alcatel's industry-leading IP routing solution will enable China Mobile to accelerate the delivery of IP-based premium voice and multimedia services to its customers. The project was won through Alcatel Shanghai Bell, Alcatel's Chinese flagship company.
Telecommunications in China can be characterised by creativity and daring one minute, and by caution and dithering the next. China is also the largest mobile communications market in the world.
All sectors in the DTV industry chain are interdependent and playing different roles. The upstream products can only produce value when they reach the end users through the industry chain.
According to Research and Markets, China's exports of automotive lights are growing at the rate of about 30% annually. Overseas shipments are expected to reach US$300 million in 2006, as demand from Asia, Europe and North America increases steadily and more suppliers venture into the OEM segment.
Encouraging growth in process industries in China, especially chemicals, petrochemicals oil, gas and nuclear power generation segments, is essentially enhancing the demand for industrial valves and actuators.
The development of wafer foundry industry in China mainland is greatly hampered by IC design houses in China Mainland. Among those 500 IC design houses, only at most 50 are able to have mass productions.
The increasing number of passenger car sales in China along with growing safety concerns is driving growth of active and passive safety systems market. To compete in the market, vehicle manufacturers are likely to adopt advanced active safety systems in a wider range of passenger vehicle segments to differentiate their products. Cost of active and passive safety systems are decreasing, likely to render them more affordable for vehicle manufacturers to increase installations in passenger cars in China.
According to Research and Markets China's telecommunications market is one of the largest in the world and remains almost completely under the thrall of the state; therefore foreign-owned companies have little or no chance of directly operating networks or providing services in mainland China, except in co-operation with state-owned or approved entities.
