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Regulations
MIIT Regulates EIP Service Life
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has issued the General Guidelines for Environment-friendly Service Life of Electronic Information Products, which are intended to help enterprises determine the environment-friendly service life of their products. In case products beyond their stated service life are used or imported, producers or importers will have to bear consequences arising therefrom. This is said to effectively reduce the generation of e-waste in China. According to a survey conducted by a group under China Council for Co-operation on Environment and Development, at least 70% of e-waste in the world has entered China. For this reason, MIIT released the General Guidelines, which can be implemented in conjunction with the Requirements for Pollution Control Marks of Electronic Information Products to guide enterprises in fixing the environmental service life of products more scientifically and reasonably. Chinese Text
Trade & Investment
Heavy Losses Due to Technical Barrier to Trade
A report on global trade friction released by the Ministry of Commerce on December 1 pointed out China has become the number one subject of trade investigations globally for consecutive 14 years, and technical barrier to trade will become the main reason hindering the export of Chinese products, leading to a direct trade loss of over USD50.5b (RMB340b) for Chinese enterprises last year. This report was published by MOC at the fifth China High-level Symposium on Trade Relief and Industry Security held on December 1. According to Yang Yi, Director-general of Bureau of Industry Injury Investigation, as of Oct. 28, a total of 101 trade relief investigation cases against China have taken place, involving more than USD 11.6b. Last year over one third of Chinese export enterprises suffered more of less from the technical trade measures of foreign countries. Wang Chao, Assistant Minister of MOC, MOC is considering more trade relief measures to respond to this situation. Chinese Text
China Exports Proprietary Servers for the First Time
The TS10000 high performance servers developed by Inspur Group have been exported to Saudi Arabia recently, and this means China’s proprietary servers are exported for the first time, and in a position to compete with server products from European and American countries. Sources said that this exporting of China’s servers is based on successful application of Inspur high performance servers in China’s bioscience field, and that is why Saudi Arabia, regardless of the practices of procuring servers developed by European and American makers, introduced Inspur’ s TS10000 high performance servers for gene research for date palms, with a view to improving its competitiveness in farm products gene research. For a long time, IT enterprises in European and American countries have maintained their monopoly over the global server market with their core technologies in server products. The first server developed by Inspur Group in 1993 smashed up the monopoly of foreign brands over Chinese market. Inspur Group is maintaining a lead position in software and hardware, and its servers and storage and software business stay ahead of similar domestic proprietary brands in market shares. Chinese Text
3G Mobile Communications
China Telecom to Advance CDMA Core Chip Localization
Sources from China Telecom Group said that China Telecom signed a strategic cooperation agreement with China Electronics Technology Group Corporation on December 2, and both parties will work together to accelerate the localization and technical evolution of core chips for CDMA terminals. Currently, Qualcomm is maintaining its overall monopoly of over 1400 patents in the CDMA field, covering almost the whole industry chain, and the technical monopoly leads to an exorbitant cost of CDMA terminals compared with GSM terminals. The partnership of China Telecom as the CDMA operator in China with China Electronics Technology Group may produce significant influence on China’s CDMA industry. Chinese Text
497 3G Terminal Licenses Approved
As of November 20, 497 licenses have been granted for network connection by 3G terminals, that means 497 3G terminal types have passed the network connection testing, according to news release by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Of which, 218 are TD terminals, including handsets (101), data cards (94) and fixed wireless terminals (23), 145 are CDMA 2000 terminals and 134 are WCDMA terminals. Chinese Text
SARFT, Cisco Set up NGB Joint Lab
On December 2, SARFT Academy of Broadcasting Planning and Cisco signed a deal to jointly set up a joint lab of NGB (Next generation broadcasting network), which will start operation in first half of 2010. Wang Xiaojie, Director-general of Department of Science and Technology, SARFT, spoke highly of the partnership with Cisco in his speech at the singing ceremony, saying that the joint lab will play active roles in promoting the development of NGB. According to the requirements of SARFT and the Ministry of Science and Technology, the NGB network should be a broadband two-way and controllable network featuring full coverage and interconnection and intercommunication. The construction of NGB network has begun in different parts of China. Now the NGB operators in the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta and the mid- and west regions are working on NGB deployment and will build NGB pilot regions in the next 1-3 years to accelerate the 3C convergence. SARFT plans to build a next generation broadcasting network integrating wired communication with wireless and featuring nationwide coverage in the next 10 years. Chinese Text
Semiconductor
Vimicro Founder Elected CAE Member
ChineseAcademy of Engineering (CAE) announced on December 2 an addition of 48 new members to CAE in 2009. John Deng, Vimicro’s founder serving now as Vimicro Chairman and CEO, was elected member of the Division of Information and Electronic Engineering. In 2005, Vimicro became the first Chinese chip maker with own intellectual property which was Nasdaq listed, controlling 60% of the market for image processing chips for computers. Its chip products are widely used by Samsung, Philips, HP and Lenovo in computers, broadband, mobile communication and e-appliances. The CAE member is the supreme academic title in engineering science in China, and is a life-long honor. Chinese Text
China to Establish IOT Alliance
On December 2, a preparatory working group of the Sensor Network (Internet of Things) Technology & Industry Alliance was established by CAS Shanghai Institute of Microsystems and Information Technology and other domestic organizations in Beijing. According to sponsors of the preparatory meeting, the sensor network (Internet of things) technology is rated by the international industries as the top of the ten technologies which are expected to change the world in the future. Currently, China’s R&D of wireless sensor network technology and applications is on an equal footing with foreign advanced countries, and has acquired advantaged position in some sectors. In such context, CAS and other domestic key enterprises sponsored this meeting hoping to pool relative R&D resources to work jointly on this field as soon as possible. Sources said this alliance will be a technology & industry alliance under which enterprises will play key roles, the government issues preferential policies, research institutes and universities will participate in R&D driven by the needs of users. The alliance will, under the guidance of MIIT, work to promote the development of the sensor network (Internet of things) technology and industry through advancing the R&D, manufacturing, promotion and application of the sensor network industry chain and related products. Chinese Text
Software
CCSE 2009 Held in Shenzhen
The 5th China Conference on Software Engineering (CCSE 2009) was held by CSAI Advisory Team in Shenzhen on November 28, 2009. With a theme of “Sharing, Improvement and Innovation”, this conference set up three forums: CMMI Forum, Software R&D and Project Management Forum and Enterprise IT Application and Talent Training Forum, and over 20 foreign and domestic experts gave over 10 speeches. During the conference, CSAI signed an AEP partnership plan with U.S. QAI, and both parties held a press conference, vowing to advance the establishment of China’s software specialist qualification certification system. Chinese Text
Microsoft Assists Cities with Anti-Piracy Enforcement
On December 3, Microsoft China announced a series of anti-piracy actions it took in China in the past month. Microsoft assisted enforcement departments in Beijing, Shanghai, Xi’an, Chengdu, Chongqing and Taiyuan to take a series of anti-piracy actions last month, and seized large numbers of pirated software. Also, Microsoft China took a civil action against two vendors suspected of pre-installing and selling pirated software. In addition, Microsoft improved the activation flow in its latest Windows 7 with a view to preventing the infringement of consumer rights and interests by pirated software. Microsoft also strengthened its efforts to help educate Chinese youth and minors on intellectual property protection. Chinese Text
Internet
Multi-level Management to Be Practiced for Online Games
Sources said the competent online games authorities are planning to exercise multi-level management over the online games industry. This news was disclosed by officials attending a meeting for the Internet industry. According to such officials, tight management will be exercised for the Internet industry, and strict measures will be taken against violative, violent and porn online games. For this reason, a multi-level management system will be established by the range of ages. Chinese Text
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