China Economy Forum

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China to invest big to support Beidou system

Updated: 2013-05-18 02:41

By WANG QIAN in Wuhan

China is expected to invest 7 billion yuan ($1.13 billion) to support the development of industries related to the country's Beidou satellite navigation system before 2015, an industry insider said.

"Industries related to the Beidou system are entering a booming development stage," Yang Qiangwen, a senior engineer at the China Satellite Navigation Office, said at the Fourth China Satellite Navigation Conference on Thursday in Wuhan.

According to the office's figures, the central government has already invested around 3.5 billion yuan to boost industries related to the Beidou system.

And as the support from the central government continues, Yang said that the Beidou system will bring new economic growth to the country.

Industry experts estimated that the Beidou system may unleash a potential market worth 225 billion yuan, which may be the reason for the country's surging investments in the project.

The navigation system is already being used in many areas across China.

The Ministry of Transport required all tour coaches, long-distance buses and vehicles carrying dangerous goods in nine provinces, or around 80,000 vehicles, to install the Beidou system before June, or the vehicles' permits may not be approved.

Li Jing, a researcher with the China Satellite Navigation Office, said the ministry will launch an offshore rescue program using the Beidou service in 2014.

Beidou's applications are expanding in many areas, including public security, the fishery industry, disaster-relief operations, tourism and forestry, said Ran Chengqi, spokesman for the China Satellite Navigation Office.

After the Ya'an earthquake on April 20, Beidou played an important role in navigation and communication tasks during disaster-relief operations, Ran added.

The system has also been used overseas: The Ministry of Public Security successfully tracked rogue militia leader Naw Kham, who killed 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River in 2011, using the Beidou system. He was eventually captured in Laos and executed in February in Kunming, Yunnan province.

The successful application of the system and the country's strong support for the project are boosting the confidence of navigation companies and leading them to adopt Beidou, experts said.

Ran added that automotive navigation equipment is now entering mass production and will gradually be launched into the consumer market.

Wei Baoguo, a researcher with the China Electronics Technology Group Corp, said that his company is designing a rescue system based on Beidou to be used at scenic spots, which will soon be promoted nationwide.

Sun Jiadong, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that satellite navigation is changing and reshaping traditional industries, triggering a huge market potential.

China to invest big to support Beidou system |Sci-Tech |chinadaily.com.cn

 

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Wuhan Metro by 2017：

Some Metro exits and stations：

 

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More pics inside the stations and trains：

for those with small butt

for bookworms

lucky seats

station name

Chinese painting for those with an artistic inclination

window display

the universe is a riddle

 

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Chinese physicists create first single-photon quantum memory, leading to quantum internet | ExtremeTech

"Chinese physicists create first single-photon quantum memory, leading to quantum internet
By Sebastian Anthony on May 15, 2013 at 8:20 am

A lab in China is reporting that it has constructed the first memory device that uses single photons to store quantum data. This is a significant breakthrough that takes us further down the path towards a quantum internet, and potentially quantum computing as well.

As it currently stands, we already make extensive use of photons — the bulk of the internet and telecommunications backbone consists of photons traveling down fiber optic cables. Rather than single photons, though, these signals consist of carrier light waves of millions of photons, with the wave being modulated by binary data. These pulses are never stored, either; when they reach a router, they’re converted into electrical signals, and then stored in RAM before being converted back into light.

A diagram showing the generation of a single photon (a), and the storage of a single photon with OAM (b)

Now, however, Dong-Sheng Ding and fellow researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China have announced that they have generated a single photon, stored it in a “cigar-shaped atomic cloud of rubidium atoms” for 400 nanoseconds, and then released the photon. The single photon is created using a process called spontaneous four-wave mixing, and the rubidium cloud stores the photon due to electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). EIT causes a phenomenon called “slow light,” which is used here to “store” the photon for 400ns (more than long enough to count as computer memory).

The retrieved photon signal, vs. the storage timeThe photon, being stored

The generation and storage would be a big achievement in itself, but there’s more: the rubidium trap also preserves the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of the photon. As we’ve covered before, electromagnetic waves (including photons) can have both spin and orbital angular momentum. Spin angular momentum (SAM), which is equivalent to the Earth spinning on its own axis, produces polarization — and then there’s OAM, which is equivalent to the Earth rotating around the Sun. Generally, in wireless and wired communications, signals only use SAM and are therefore flat — but by introducing OAM, a signal becomes a 3D helix. You can encode a lot more data into a carrier wave – perhaps an infinite amount – if you play with both the SAM and OAM. By preserving the OAM of the single photon, the Chinese researchers could be onto something very big indeed.

Moving forward, a photonic quantum memory is absolutely vital if we ever want to build a quantum internet out of quantum routers. Even if we pull back from lofty, quantum applications, if we could introduce OAM to the world’s fiber optic networks, the internet would suddenly get a whole lot faster.

Research paper: arXiv:1305.2675 - 'Single-Photon-Level Quantum Image Memory Based on Cold Atomic Ensembles'”

[Note: Thank you to "PITA" for the newslink.]

 

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China gives environmental approval to country's biggest hydro dam

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Wed May 15, 2013
Reuters

China's environment ministry has given the go-ahead for the construction of what will become the country's tallest hydroelectric dam despite acknowledging it will have an impact on plants and rare fish. The dam, with a height of 314 meters (1,030 feet), will serve the Shuangjiangkou hydropower project on the Dadu River in southwestern Sichuan province. To be built over 10 years by a subsidiary of state power firm Guodian Group, it is expected to cost 24.68 billion yuan ($4.02 billion) in investment.

The ministry, in a statement issued late on Tuesday, said an environmental impact assessment had acknowledged that the project would have a negative impact on rare fish and flora and affect protected local nature reserves. Developers, it said, had pledged to take "counter-measures" to mitigate the effects. The project still requires the formal go-ahead from the State Council, China's cabinet.

China aims to raise the share of non-fossil fuels in its energy mix to 15 percent by 2020, up from 9.4 percent in 2011. Hydropower is expected to make the biggest contribution. It has vowed to speed up construction of dams in the 2011-2015 period after slowing it down following the completion of the controversial Three Gorges project in 2005.

The Three Gorges Dam, which serves the world's biggest hydropower station on the Yangtze river, measures 185 meters. The 300-m Nurek dam in Tajikistan in Central Asia is the world's highest, though other taller dams are now under construction. China's tallest dam now, at 292 meters, is the Xiaowan Dam on the Lancang River, also known as the Mekong.

On completion, the Sichuan project will have a total installed capacity of 20 gigawatts (GW), with annual power generation to exceed 7 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh). The government said this year that hydropower capacity was expected to reach 290 GW by 2015, up from 220 GW at the end of 2010. It also said it would begin building a controversial project on the undeveloped Nu River in Yunnan province.

Guodian was one of a number of state-owned firms criticized by China's national audit office last week for starting work on projects not yet been approved by the central government. The office said by the end of 2011, the company had invested nearly 30 billion yuan in 21 unapproved projects. The Huadian Group, China's biggest power company, was also criticized for launching construction of the Huangdeng hydropower plant before receiving the government's go-ahead.

 

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Analysys: Main smartphone vendors in China by sales volume, 1Q13

Adam Hwang, DIGITIMES, Taipei [Wednesday 22 May 2013]
There were 90.54 million handsets sold in the China market during first-quarter 2013, growing 23.5% sequentially and 34.8% on year, and 75.28 million units of them were smartphones, increasing 32.2% sequentially and 141.5% on year, according to Analysys International.

Vendor - Market share - Country of Origin

Samsung 17.3% South Korea

Lenovo 13.1% Mainland China

Coolpad 10.3% Mainland China

Huawei 10.1% Mainland China

ZTE 6.9% Mainland China

Apple 6.4% US

K-Touch 4.1% Mainland China

GiONEE 3.8% Mainland China

HTC 3.1% Taiwan

OPPO 2.9% Mainland China

China market: Smartphone sales over 75 million units in 1Q13, says Analysys

I see my personal favorite XiaoMi is not on the list。

Hope to see it join the Top-10 table in the next couple of years。：-）

 

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Business is booming at Canton Fair (world's largest business fair)

A Canton Fair View of China's Economy | Uncommon Wisdom Daily

"Inside the Biggest Business Event of the Year in China …
Tony Sagami | May 9, 2013

I visited the southern China province of Canton last week. And while I ate my share of delicious Cantonese food — like char sui, jook sing noodles and mantis shrimp — I wasn’t there just to feed my face.

My main purpose in visiting Canton was to see for myself how a vital part of China’s economy is really doing.

I came away plenty of answers … including three solid investing ideas … that I’d like to share with you today.

Inside China’s Most-Important Business Event of the Year

Canton is the ancient name for the city of Guangzhou, the epicenter of the Chinese manufacturing juggernaut. It’s also home to the China Import & Export Fair, or “Canton Fair,” which serves as a good indicator of China’s foreign trade activity.

Most Americans have never heard of the Canton Fair. But as a global-minded investor, it’s something you can’t afford to miss … even if you can’t attend this event in-person.

That’s because it’s the largest trade fair in the world, where thousands of manufacturers, businessmen and merchants gather to conduct business.

The Canton Fair has been held in the spring and fall since 1957. It has the largest assortment of products, the highest attendance and the largest number of business deals made at any trade show on the planet.

This event, the 113th of its kind, featured 22,000 exhibitors and 202,000 buyers from more than 200 countries. They gathered in Guangzhou to find everything from industrial products, textiles and garments, medicines and health products, gifts and consumer goods.

Quite simply, the Canton Fair is the single-most-important business event of the year in China.

A ‘Fair’ View of China’s Economy

You hear plenty about how the sky is falling in China, whose economy “only” grew 7.7% in the first quarter.

Well, somebody needs to tell the businessmen I met in Guangzhou that the world is falling into a deep global recession, because business was booming at the Canton Fair.

• $35.5 billion worth of goods were ordered, an 8.8% increase from the last fair.

• 202,000 buyers showed up, a 7% bump from the fall event.

• While sales to the U.S. (down 0.5%) and Europe (down 4.9%) have wilted, business from emerging markets soared. Orders from other BRIC countries — Brazil, Russia and India — jumped 5.2%. Orders from Middle Eastern countries increased 3.8%.

Again, the “experts” from Wall Street and CNBC keep underestimating the power and resilience of the Chinese economy.

Sure, the U.S. and Europe are weak. But the rest of the world is buying Chinese goods by the cargo ship.

Developing Economies Doing More Business With Each Other

China’s neighbors are becoming increasingly important trading partners, as the number of the fair visitors from Middle East, Russia, Turkey, South America and Southeast Asia had increased remarkably.

China’s Purchasing Managers Index (PMI), an indicator of the manufacturing sector’s economic health, reached 50.9 in March. That is the highest number since May 2012 and evidence that the Chinese economy is far from sick.

Look at the most recent trade numbers.

In the first quarter of 2013:

• China engaged in a total of $990 billion of trade, a whopping 13.4% year-on-year increase.

• Exports hits $507.9 billion, an 18.4% year-on-year increase

• Imports grew 8.4% $460.3 billion.

So, the next time you hear an “expert” tell you how bad the Chinese economy is doing, ask them if they went to the Canton Fair and talked to the Chinese sellers and foreign buyers.

If they had, they would probably be telling you a very different story … and giving you some information that could actually help you make money."

 

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CRH trains，an incomplete compilation：

 

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China's Shuanghui to buy Smithfield Foods for $4.7 billion

China's Shuanghui International said it would buy Smithfield Foods Inc (SFD.N) for $4.7 billion in cash to help satisfy growing demand for U.S.-made pork in its home market, but the deal may raise concerns in the United States.


Full Text:
China's Shuanghui to buy Smithfield Foods for $4.7 billion | Reuters

 

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Great social and economic arteries：

NB The Tianjin-Qinhuangdao HSR will start trial runs in August this year。

 

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Guiyang Longdongbao Airport terminal 2 construction completed on March 30 2013. The new terminal is opening on April 22nd.

Airport Location: Guiyang, Guizhou Province

Airport 2012 PAX (old terminal): Guiyang - Longdongbao (KWE) ... 8,746,034 ... +19.2% (CAAC)

Added space: passenger area 110k sqm, freight area 21k sqm, 25 new gates, 260k sqm airplane space and 105k sqm parking space.

 

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Nanning Airport’s New Terminal, taking the design of “two phoenixes returning to their nest”. It will have an annual passenger handling capacity of 15.4 million and become a window to present the charms of Nanning to ASEAN countries and the rest of the world.

The constructions of the new terminal’s supporting facilities of Nanning Wuxu International Airport will have several phases and they are to be completed in 2020. The present phase of construction includes the terminal building with a floor space of 130,000 square meters, an airplane parking lot of 45 parking bay with an area of 475,000 square meters, a new cargo warehouse with a floor area of 14,000 square meters, a car parking lot with an area of 103,700 square meters and other supporting facilities. This phase of construction, with an investment of 6 billion yuan.

Phase II

Interior

 

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Pub Date: 13-05-30

Hefei Xinqiao International Airport Opens

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Kay Smith (R), a passenger from New York, the U.S., shows a free roundtrip ticket presented by China Eastern Airlines (CAE) in a media interview at Hefei Xinqiao International Airport in Hefei, capital of China's Anhui province, on May 30. She was the first passenger to arrive at the airport on the opening day.


Xinqiao Airport in Hefei, capital of East China's Anhui province, started its business with the arrival of a China Eastern Airlines (CEA) A320 aircraft in the small hours of Thursday.

At 0:05 am, the MU5172 from Beijing, China's capital, landed amid the thunderous roar of jet engines. More than 140 passengers got off board, some being pretty excited to witness the historic moment of the airport.

"What a big surprise," Kay Smith from New York, the U.S.exclaimed in delight, when she was told she was the first passenger to arrive at the new airport.

"The tropical fish is very wonderful and the staff are lovely." Kay spoke highly of the airport in the shape of a tropical fish. Compared with the one in her hometown, Xinqiao is neater and cleaner, she said.

The woman, who was visiting Hefei, together with her doctor husband, for a medical conference, was given a free roundtrip ticket by the CEA as a gift.

Passengers gesture as they arrive at Hefei Xinqiao International Airport in Hefei, capital of China's Anhui province, on May 30. They were the first passengers to arrive at the airport on the opening day.

Hefei Xinqiao International Airport was completed in late 2012, at a cost of 4.36 billion yuan ($715 million), according to local authorities.

Starting today, it will replace the Luogang Airport, which has served the city for 36 years, as its main airport.

Pei Bo, captain of MU5172, is interviewed after landing an A320 aircraft at Hefei Xinqiao International Airport in Hefei, capital of China's Anhui province, on May 30. The airport started its business with the arrival of the plane from Chinese capital Beijing at 0:05 am.

"Well, I've visited almost all the Chinese airports, and this one is by no means inferior," Pei Bo, captain of the aircraft, who flied more than 13,000 hours during his career, said in a media interview following the landing.

Xinqiao is expected to handle 11 million passengers and 150,000 tons of cargo annually by 2020, according to official documents.

http://english.anhuinews.com/system/...05692818.shtml

 

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Will there be a trade war between china and eu?

 

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Taishan 2 steam generator ready

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23 May 2013
by World Nuclear News

The first Chinese-made steam generator for an EPR has been completed and is being transported to unit 2 of the Taishan plant in the country's Guangdong province.

The first Chinese EPR steam generator starts its journey to Taishan (Image: CGNPC)

The four steam generators for Taishan 1 - measuring 25 meters long and weighing 550 tonnes each - were manufactured at Areva's plant at Chalon-St Marcel, France. However, those for subsequent Chinese EPR units are to be produced domestically. China General Nuclear Power Group (CGNPC) has announced that the first domestically-produced steam generators for Taishan 2 is now finished, while the second is nearing completion. The components, manufactured by Shanghai Electric, will be shipped to the site over the next couple of months. Steam generators are major components in a pressurized water reactor system which transfer heat from the primary reactor coolant circuit to a secondary circuit, turning water into steam to drive a turbine and generator.

Taishan 1 and 2 are the first two reactors based on Areva's EPR design to be built in China. They form part of an €8 billion contract signed by Areva and CGNPC in November 2007. The Taishan project - 140 kilometres west of Hong Kong - is owned by the Guangdong Taishan Nuclear Power Joint Venture Company Limited, a joint venture between EDF (30%) and CGNPC. Unit 1 should begin operating in 2014, with unit 2 following in 2015. Two further EPRs are planned for Taishan.