Archive for October, 2008
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
INTRODUCTION: Chengdu Software Park, another one of the country’s 11 national software bases, is part of the Hi-Tech Zone, which became a nationally ranked high-tech industrial development zone in 1991. 32 Fortune 500 companies and over 800 foreign invested enterprises have invested in the zone.
Chengdu is the provincial capital ...
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
A place where everything is possible but nothing is easy: this is the story told in a recent report by Chris Jones .
The story starts with Barrett Comiskey, came to Shanghai on behalf of an American client who has ordered thousands of plastic rulers with MADE IN CHINA stamped on ...
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Sunday, October 19th, 2008
On 10/20, China's National Bureau of Statistics reported third quarter GDP growth rate 9.0%, which finally slipped into single digits for the first time in at least four years under the impact of the global credit crisis and weakness in the domestic property sector.
Industrial production grew 11.4 percent in the ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
A high-level delegation from Xi'an, China, arrived on Sunday for a three-city visit, seeking IT & outsourcing partnerships in Silicon Valley. The 2008 Xi'an Investment Environment Promotion Forum was held on Monday Oct. 13.
Xi'an's prominence as a high-tech center is one of China's best-kept secrets. Speaker after speaker said ...
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
INTRODUCTION: Dalian Software Park was launched in 1998 in the western suburbs of Dalian City, Liaoning Province, China. Dalian SW Park is one of China's 11 "National Software Industry Bases" and one of five "National Software Export Bases."
Currently, around 392 enterprises have settled ...
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
According to the latest data released by the Ministry of Commerce, Chinese outsourcing companies have signed contracts worth of 1.9 billion U.S. dollars in the first eight months of the year, up 17 percent from the same period last year.
By the end of August, the number of outsource ...
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