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China Focus: Golden decade expected for IT application in China’s medical care industry

China Focus: Golden decade expected for IT application in China’s medical care industry

 

BEIJING, June 1 (Greenpost) — Stock prices of many Shanghai and Shenzhen listed companies with the concept of information technology application in medical care sector has more than doubled and outperformed the market since February this year. This is a reflection of investors’ expectation for great growth potentials in China’s medical care informatization drive.

Indeed, along with implementation of the nation’s new medical reform scheme, concrete policies in favor of the industry’s development have followed, such as a five-year plan for informatization in the medical and health sector.

Aside from governmental support, social investment in the sector is expected to warm up quickly.

A China Securities Journal report on Monday predicts that the total investment in this field is expected to hit 34 billion yuan in 2016 and the coming decade will be a golden period for the industry’s development.

The medical information construction includes tele-medical information systems, regional medical information platforms, and hospital intelligent management systems, and the former two are fully supported by the government.

The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has appointed five regions, including Ningxia, Yunnan, Inner Mongolia, Guizhou and Tibet, as telemedical information pilot zones. And each will be given 120 million yuan or 200 million yuan as supportive funding by the Ministry of Finance.

Both the government and grassroots medical organizations have more rigid demands on the development of regional medical information platforms. The current investments in such platforms are much less than the average of developed countries.

Confident in the outlook of regional medical information platforms, investors on the domestic capital market have begun to pay attention to companies related to the field.

Nearly 50 institutional investors recently visited Chongqing Adtech Co Ltd, one of the leading companies in regional medical information for market research.

Analysts say that, as a main shareholder of Adtech, Hainan Haiyao Co Ltd (000566.SZ) can get the whole medical data of Chongqing local people.

Since February the share prices of many medical information concept stocks such as Hainan Haiyao (000566.SZ), WinningSoft (300253.SH), and Wonders Informaiton (300168) have more doubled. (Edited by Bai Jiechun, baijc@xinhua.org)

Source Xinhua

Editor  Xuefei Chen Axelsson 

Three million jobs created in EU due to trade with China: study

Three million jobs created in EU due to trade with China: study

 

BRUSSELS, June 1 (Greenpost) — About three million Europeans have jobs because of export from the European Union (EU) to China, according to a study released on Monday here by EU institutions.

The share of employment supported by EU export increased from 9.3 percent in 1995 to 13.6 percent in 2011, said the study on impact of extra-EU trade on income and jobs, which was jointly published by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the Directorate General for Trade of the European Commission.

In total, over 31 million jobs in the EU depend on exports.

Citing the data from the World Input-Output Database (WIOD), the study found that 10 percent of EU export related employment was driven by the sales of goods and services to China in 2011, or three million jobs was given to Europeans in all EU member states due to trade with China in that year.

Though the United States is taking a lead in trade with the EU by now, China is taking ground from it, figures indicated.

Compared with 1995, the share of EU employment supported by EU-China trade went up to 10.1 percent in 2011 from 2.29 percent. Meanwhile, the U.S.-related figures in the same period dropped from 20.5 percent to 14.6 percent.

According to the report, among the EU member states, Germany, Britain and Italy created the highest number of jobs in EU exports to the rest of the world.

In 2011, Germany created some 7.1 million export related jobs domestically, of which 15.1 percent were driven by its sales of goods and services to China, said the report.

Meanwhile, in Finland and the Netherlands more than 15 percent of the employment supported by EU exports was dependent on the Chinese market. Enditem

Source Xinhua

Editor  Xuefei Chen Axelsson

Beijing’s largest coal-fired boiler house retired

Beijing’s largest coal-fired boiler house retired

BEIJING, June 3 (Greenpost) — The largest coal-fired boiler house in urban Beijing was shut down on Tuesday, as part of the government’s plan to cut pollution in the capital city.

The boiler house, which has four boilers with a total capacity of 80 tons of vapor per hour, accounts for over a fifth of the total coal-fired boiler capacity in urban Beijing and provides heating for a rail equipment manufacturing company and 20,000 local residents.

The boiler house, located near the famous Marco Polo bridge in Fengtai District, will be replaced with three gas-fired boilers before November, when the city’s centrally controlled heating is turned on for the winter.

The boiler house used 40,000 tons of coal and emitted 54 tons of sulfur dioxide, 57 tons of nitric oxide, 45 tons of dust and 1 ton of volatile organic compounds per year.

Beijing plans to close all coal-fired boilers in urban areas by the end of this year, according to a government work plan released in April.

Of the four major coal-fired power plants in Beijing, three have been closed so far and the last is scheduled to be closed next year. They will be replaced with four gas-fired power plants.

Beijing is aiming to limit annual coal consumption to 15 million tons in 2015 and 10 million tons in 2017. Enditem

Source  Xinhua

Editor  Xuefei Chen Axelsson

Interview: China-EU cooperation to help China’s fast growing digital economy: expert

   Interview: China-EU cooperation to help China’s fast growing digital economy: expert

 

BRUSSELS, May 26 (Greenpost) — The director general of BusinessEurope said in a recent interview with Xinhua that China-EU cooperation can help realize growth potential in China’s digital economy.

Markus J. Beyrer, director general of BusinessEurope, an association of enterprises in 33 European countries, said the digital industry is a game changer for the global economy and will have a huge impact on EU competitiveness.

Intelligent, interconnected systems now seamlessly support industrial activities along the entire value chain, he added.

Europe will have to reap the benefits of this huge potential, putting in place a real strategy to digitize all sectors of the economy.

He noted that by 2025, Europe’s manufacturing industry would gain a gross value worth 1.25 trillion euros (1.36 trillion U.S. dollars). However, he warned if Europe fail to turn the digital transformation to their advantage, the potential losses can be up to 600 billion euros by 2025 or over 10 percent of Europe’s industrial base.

Talking about China’s digital economy, Beyrer said China’s internet industry is growing fast, but until now it has largely been consumer-driven rather than enterprise-driven.

Large e-commerce firms have driven sales and transformed retailing, but small and medium sized enterprises still lag behind in using the internet for procurement, sales and marketing purposes, he said.

“It is clear that there is a lot of potential for growth in China’s digital economy too, China needs to liberalize its market to encourage new innovations and robust competition would accelerate China’s productivity,” said Beyrer.

Beyrer underlined that European companies have the required expertise and can help China realize its potential by engaging the Chinese market on commercial terms. Enditem

Source   Xinhua

Editor  Xuefei Chen Axelsson

 

Robot pushes productivity gains at China’s manufacturing hub by 17 pct

   Robot pushes productivity gains at China’s manufacturing hub by 17 pct

 

Stockholm, June 4 (Greenpost) — Productivity in a Southern China manufacturing hub rose 17 percent last year while shedding 6.8 of their labor thanks to the adoption of automation and robots, the municipal government said Sunday.

Companies in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, began modifying their manufacturing processes late last year as labor supply in one of the world’s largest manufacturing country began to shrink.

Rising labor cost resulting from a dwindling labor pool in China have hurt the competitiveness of products made by Chinese manufacturers. Multinational firms such as Nike are transferring their manufacturing base away from China to southeast Asia in search of cheaper labor.

A Standard Chartered survey conducted among nearly 300 manufacturers during the first quarter this year in the Pearl Delta Region in south China, including those in Dongguan, found that employers have expected wages to rise more than 8 percent this year.

Investment into manufacturing upgrades and growing use of automated production system also drove down the average production cost by 12.5 percent last year, the municipal government said.

In March, South China’s Guangdong Province pledged to push nearly 2,000 companies in the region to replace human labor with robots as part of its three-year, 943 billion yuan industrial overhaul in the delta.

China is expected to have more robots operating in production plants than any other country by 2017, according to the International Federation of Robotics. Enditem

Source  Xinhua

Editor   Xuefei Chen Axelsson

 

China, Germany exchanges to co-launch offshore yuan platform before year-end

China, Germany exchanges to co-launch offshore yuan platform before year-end

 

Stockholm, June 4 (Greenpost) — Chinese and German exchanges are to jointly launch an offshore yuan platform to trade financial instruments in Frankfurt before the end of this year, a source told Xinhua on Monday.

The Shanghai Stock Exchange and the China Financial Futures Exchange had conducted intensive talks with the Deutsche Boerse Group on plans for cooperation over the last week.

According to a source attended the meetings, the three exchanges had reached a consensus to jointly establish a trading platform that offers Chinese investors direct access to German financial markets.

Media reports said last Friday that the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Deutsche Boerse had agreed to build cross-listing arrangements for companies from both countries. The source denied these reports, saying they were highly exaggerated.

The source added that the cooperation deal among the three exchanges was a detailed follow up to the decisions that top leaders from the two countries had reached during the first China-Germany high-level financial dialogue held in Berlin in mid-March. Enditem

Source Xinhua

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China to become world’s largest 4G market in 2015: ABI Research

   China to become world’s largest 4G market in 2015: ABI Research

Stockholm, June 4  (Greenpost) — China will outpace the United States to become the world’s largest 4G market this year, the People’s Posts and Telecommunications News reported on Tuesday, quoting a report by market researcher ABI Research.

ABI Research said China’s three basic telecom operators, all having got 4G LTE licenses, would see their 4G customer number reach 500 million by the end of 2015, accounting for 36.5 percent of the country’s total mobile customers.

China’s basic telecom operators started 4G business in 2013. Last year, they developed around 100 million 4G customers. China Mobile (CHL.NYSE; 00941.HK), as China’s first 4G business operator and the world’s largest telecom operator by customer number, used its first-mover advantage to win roughly a 90 percent share on China’s 4G market in the year. Enditem

Source   Xinhua

editor  Xuefei Chen Axelsson

 

China makes breakthroughs in fourth-generation nuclear technology

China makes breakthroughs in fourth-generation nuclear technology

 

Stockholm, June 4 (Greenpost) — China has made breakthroughs in the fourth-generation advanced nuclear technology featuring secure high temperature reactors.

The preliminary feasibility study report of the 600,000 KW high temperature reactor of the Jiangxi Ruijin nuclear project for commercial use was approved by the authorities, marking a big step forward for China’s first high temperature reactor power station for commercial use, according to the China Nuclear Engineering Group Co., on Wednesday.

Construction is expected to start on the first phase of the Jiangxi Ruijin project’s two units in 2017.

Nowadays, China has already mastered all technologies of high temperature reactors with proprietary intellectual property rights.

The high temperature reactors are suitable for construction in load-center areas and countries or regions with small- and medium-sized power grids, said analysts.

On China’s A-share market, investors can focus on companies as Sichuan Danfu Compressor (002366.SZ), SUFA Technology Industry (000777.SZ) and Jiangsu Shentong Valve (002438.SZ). Enditem

 

China Focus: Belt and Road initiatives to spur infrastructure investment

China Focus: Belt and Road initiatives to spur infrastructure investment

Stockholm, May 8 (Greenpost) — The “One Belt and One Road” initiatives, also known as the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road initiatives, are very likely to boost physical infrastructure investment and facilitate the growth in the construction sector in China, according to market observers.
The Belt and Road initiatives are a Chinese framework for connecting economies in Asia Pacific and Europe.
Qiu Bo, an analyst at Guosen Securities Co., Ltd., said 2015 will be a year of infrastructure as Chinese government is now actively pushing ahead with its Belt and Road initiatives. The analyst added that the investment in infrastructure has become an important driving force behind domestic economic growth amid the domestic downturn.
According to market analysts, China’s infrastructure projects mainly include housing renovation projects in shanty towns, urban underground pipeline network construction, railways and roads construction in central and western regions, waterway projects in the inland areas, oil-and-gas pipelines construction, electric power equipment, and environmental protection projects.
China Galaxy Securities’ researcher Bao Furong said there is a great opportunity for infrastructure-related companies to grow in the year. He also believed the central bank’s latest interest rate cuts could help reduce financing costs for construction enterprises as they are highly indebted at the moment, adding that steel-and-rail-related companies listed in China will benefit most from the lower rates.
The People’s Bank of China, the central bank, has cut the benchmark interest rates twice since November 2014, and lowered the reserve requirement ratio twice in less than three months since the start of this year.
According to calculations by Shenwan Hongyuan Securities Co., Ltd., construction companies listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen bourses reported an 11.3 percent growth in net profits in the first quarter of the year, quicker than a 1.4 percent growth pace for the fourth quarter of 2014.
As it appears from publicly disclosed financial reports, construction sector is rebounding from recession. Sun Peng, a researcher at Sinolink Securities Co., Ltd, predicted construction companies will see a further pickup in the year with massive new orders flooding into them.
Under such circumstances, market observers also said that belt and road initiatives may bring big profit opportunity for private investors who participate in the public-private partnership (PPP), a new model of developing public service projects that is funded and operated through cooperation between government and private sector companies. Enditem

Source Xinhua

Editor Xuefei Chen Axelsson

Volkswagen recalls 5,869 cars on problems with fuel pump in China

Volkswagen recalls 5,869 cars on problems with fuel pump in China

BEIJING, May 3 (Xinhua) — German carmaker Volkswagen and its joint venture in China FAW-Volkswagen will recall a total of 5,869 cars in China due to problems with fuel pumps, according to China’s quality watchdog.

The recalls, which starts on July 8, involves eight imported Golf Variant, produced in June of 2014, 512 imported Audi A3 40TFSI, made between Dec. 2013 and March 2014, 4,377 Golf A7 1.4T, manufactured between April and June of 2014, as well as 972 Audi A3 35TFSI, made between April and July of 2014, according to a notice issued by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine.

Some of the above-mentioned cars might have abnormal or disfunctioning fuel pumps, which might cause inability to start the cars or, under some extreme circumstances, lead to the flameout.

The company will contact clients and replace the flawed parts free of charge. Enditem

Source Xinhua

Editor Xuefei Chen Axelsson

3D printer making Chinese space suit parts

3D printer making Chinese space suit parts

 

Stockholm, June2, (Greenpost) — Chinese researchers have used 3D printing technology to make a safer space suit for astronauts while spacewalking.

A research center under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation used a 3D printer to create the vent pipes and the flanges connecting the pipes used on extravehicular space suit, according to a recent report from China Space News.

The vent pipe and the flange as a whole can improve the reliability and safety of the space suit, and suits can be made more efficiently. Researchers will use the technique to make more parts, says the report.

The technology has been approved by the Scientific Research Training Center for Chinese Astronauts.

China plans to launch its second orbiting space lab, Tiangong-2, in 2016, and aims to put a permanent manned space station into service around 2022.

Chinese astronauts have three kinds of space suit: inside-capsule suit, inside-capsule jacket and extravehicular space suit.

The inside-capsule space suit is used in case the pressure changes in the spaceship, usually during launch and landing periods.

The blue and lightweight inside-capsule jacket is used during normal flight, and is more convenient for work in the spaceship or space station.

The extravehicular space suit is the most complicated, providing life support system for astronauts during spacewalks.

The Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology has successfully developed a multi-laser metal 3D printer, enabling astronauts to print items with just one 3D printer in space.

Wang Lianfeng, senior engineer at the academy, says the 3D printing technology is suitable for making parts with complicated structures and odd shapes, such as the valves of rocket engines.

“It’s very difficult to process the complicated parts by traditional methods,” says Wang. For example, it takes two groups of workers, working shifts around the clock, more than two weeks to make a part of a rocket engine, but a 3D printer can do it in just 16 hours.

Wang says China is on the cutting edge of 3D printing technology.

The multi-laser metal 3D printer in the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology is like a gray-colored cabinet.

The 3D printer used in space is similar to regular printer in principle, but it should be smaller and lighter, and must undergo more zero gravity tests, says Wang.

There are still many difficulties to overcome in 3D printing in space. Researchers are still developing materials suitable for 3D printing and the precision of 3D printed items needs to be improved, Wang adds.   Enditem

Source Xinhua

Editor  Xuefei Chen Axelsson

 

 

China Exclusive: China ranks top in iOS downloads

China Exclusive: China ranks top in iOS downloads

Stockholm, June 2(Greenpost)– iOS quarterly downloads grew 30 percent between Q1 2014 and Q1 2015, meaning China surpassed the U.S. and is now the world leader in iOS downloads, according to App Annie, a mobile analytics company headquartered in San Francisco.

Danielle Levitas, senior vice president of App Annie, revealed the news at the Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) in Beijing on Wednesday.

Download growth translates into iOS App Store revenue gains. From Q1 2014 to Q1 2015, revenue in China grew 90 percent compared to 30 percent in the U.S. and 50 percent in Japan. “China grew more quickly to narrow that gap,” she said.

Earlier this week, Apple released its earnings report, announcing that international sales accounted for 69 percent of the revenue for the quarter, reflecting the high demand in emerging markets such as China for Apple products.

According to Levitas, Apple has dramatically expanded distribution in China. As of April 25, China has 19 Apple Stores across 10 cities, up from just 8 in only Beijing and Shanghai in October 2013.

China boasts the world’s most Internet and cell phone users. There were 649 million Internet users by the end of 2014, and some 557 million used cell phones to go online, official data showed.

“China, a mobile-first country, has seen smartphone exceed PC adoption,” Levitas added, “Chinese consumers want large-screen smartphones with longer battery life.”

Though app stores as a whole are marching forward, contrasts lie in different markets. Levitas highlighted that Android’s Google Play led the Apple’s iOS App Store in app downloads by nearly 70 percent in Q1 2015, while iOS maintained a strong monetization lead, generating close to 70 percent more revenue than Google Play in the same period.

“Emerging markets like Mexico, Turkey, Brazil, and Indonesia were the primary drive of Google Play’s growth,” she explained.

She also predicted that strong growth would continue across emerging markets, especially as Andriod phones below 200 U.S. dollars expand opportunity beyond mature markets.

In terms of categories, games dominated, followed by lifestyle and photo & video, while education is closing in. Education app downloads grew 25 percent on downloads and 35 percent on revenue between Q1 2014 and Q1 2015, according to Levitas.

In Q1 2015, education saw the second highest absolute revenue gain over Q4 2014, after games, ranking among the top five Google Play categories by quarterly revenue.

“It was boosted from language learning apps like Duolingo and Babbel, brain training apps like Lumosity, and MOOC platforms like iTunes U and TED,” she noted. Enditem

Source Xinhua

Editor  Xuefei Chen Axelsson

Court details voice recognition patent case involving Apple

Court details voice recognition patent case involving Apple

Stockholm June 2, (Greenpost)–  — Beijing Higher People’s Court explained why it asked a Chinese government agency to review a company’s voice recognition patent validity, which has a dispute with Apple Inc  on April 22.
On Tuesday, the court ruled in favor of Apple for a patent case. It said the voice recognition patent of Shanghai Zhizhen Network Technology Co. Ltd. should be declared invalid and asked the Patent Review Committee under the State Intellectual Property Office to review it.
Jiao Yan, chief judge in this case, told Xinhua that Zhizhen’s patent specification did not explain all technologies used in the invention. According to China’s patent law, specification should allow common technical personnel in related fields to practice the technologies easily.
Meanwhile, Jiao said the patent claims failed to clearly define the limits of exactly what the patent does, and does not, cover.
Apple declined to comment on the court judgement on Wednesday.
The court decision was made after Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court ruled last July against Apple.
The dispute between Apple and Zhizhen dates back to June 2012, when Zhizhen, developer of speech recognition technology Xiao i Robot, filed a case against Apple for alleged infringement of intellectual property rights, claiming that Siri technology violates its patent for “a type of instant messaging chat robot system.”
Xiao i Robot, which began in 2003 as a chat bot for MSN, Yahoo Messenger and other chat programs, has expanded to iOS and Android, where it bears a striking similarity to Siri.
Siri, on the other hand, made its debut with the release of the iPhone 4S in 2011. It was first developed in 2007 by Siri Inc., a start-up company acquired by Apple in 2010.
No verdict was given after trials at Shanghai courts.
At the same time, Apple applied to the Patent Review Committee to invalidate the Xiao i Robot patent. When the committee supported Xiao i Robot, the U.S.-based tech giant followed the administrative appeals process.  Enditem   Source Xinhua

Editor Xuefei Chen Axelsson

瑞典北极光令人震撼

瑞典北极光令人震撼

greenPosted by chenxuefei Thu, May 28, 2015 20:38:55
北欧绿色邮报报道(记者陈雪霏)--今年是北极光频发的年份。3月17日,记者正好在看极光最好的位置,基律纳。

瑞典太空研究所所长亲切地接受了记者的采访。他认为,无论如何,人类对太空的认识还是非常有限的,因此需要进一步深入研究观察。他的研究所地理位置优越,正好处在人烟极其稀少的地方。这里天空中的各种现象观察清楚,发射卫星也容易。因此这里也是卫星发射试验基地。
针对天气极光现象,他说虽然现在是太阳活动频率下降的时候,但是,也有可能发生极光,而且各种色彩都不同。不过,一般美的东西,往往是有毒的。因此需要认真研究。下面就请欣赏极光吧!

 

河北石家庄中雅房地产代表团访问瑞典

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北欧绿色邮报报道(记者陈雪霏)--河北省石家庄中雅房地产代表团11月6日访问了瑞典最宜居的城市恩雪平。

此间,李立景等三名代表团成员听取了恩雪平市政水务官员哈尔贝

的介绍。恩雪平号称是瑞典最中心的城市,尽管只有4万人,但她

周围却是首都斯德哥尔摩,乌普萨拉和维斯特罗斯。周边聚集着瑞典60%的人口的大公司,因此,这里的地理位置十分优越。

恩雪平以其优美的环境和合理的布局,成为舒适的宜居城市。

他们用天然的方法治理雨水污染的办法事半功倍,一次投资,一劳永逸。处理后的水如图所示非常清凉。

市中心的小花园使这个小城市显得非常漂亮。IMG_5182

 

图文  陈雪霏 2014-11-6 恩雪平水公园。