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bladerunner
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I know what you mean, there are times when im totally convinced, that when it comes to making consumer products, the engineers attitude is 'WTF its close enough". thankfully the engineers and quality contol technicians , that work for the military military or space related matters have a different attitude.
Hendrik_2000
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I don't think that is necessarily true. Right now Chinese OEM is still depend on Western company distribution network like Walmart or any other big box store. These people more or less dictate the price . They keep demanding lower and lower price. Take it or leave it attitude.
The Chinese factory has no choice other than accepting this low price . Of course they will cut corner . Most of them are not big enough to market it under their own brand in crowded and highly competitive North America or Europe.
It take a lot of money and time to create distribution network and sales force But some do like Haier
Anyway back to car industry
BTW where is Martian you guys drove him away I do enjoy his posting
Chinese automaker Chery's exports to hit all-time high in 2011
(Xinhua)
14:43, November 26, 2011
HEFEI, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- China's leading private automaker, Chery Automobile Co., Ltd., is expected to export a record 170,000 units of vehicles in 2011, marking the highest annual export figure in the company's history, a company manager said Friday.
Chery exported 135,556 units of vehicles in the first ten months of this year, up 77.3 percent from a year earlier. This total accounts for 35.3 percent of total passenger vehicle exports of domestic brands, said Feng Ping, deputy general manager of Chery International.
The central Anhui province-based carmaker started exporting cars in 2001, when it sold ten cars to Syria, and has since led export sales amongst Chinese automakers.
The company exports its products to more than 80 countries and regions, and has established 3 research institutions, a service network of 1,000 dealers and more than 800 service stations overseas.
Hendrik_2000
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Fascinating story about Huawei first posted by cyber horse in CMF Long article I only posted some paragraph
Huawei: Will China conquer the world?
iain marlow
From Friday's Globe and Mail
Published Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011 4:34PM EST
Last updated Friday, Nov. 25, 2011 8:39AM EST
As Wind Mobile considered bids for $30 million in contracts to expand its wireless network in Canada, one of the competing companies put in a peculiar request. Wind CEO Anthony Lacavera was talking to world-beating network equipment stalwarts like Ericsson and Nokia Siemens when the Chinese firm Huawei asked if it could rent office space at Wind’s headquarters on Toronto’s waterfront.
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Lacavera could see no reason why not, and Huawei moved in 25 engineers who promptly began working with his staff to craft their bid. Lacavera was dumbstruck by how perfect the results were; Huawei won the contract.
As the network expanded, he looked to the Chinese company again. When operators like Wind build out cellular towers and rooftop antenna sites, they typically contract a company for a lump sum—between $250,000 and $500,000—and the work is done in the same fashion as most construction projects in the West: That is, one of the usual industry suspects does the job dutifully, sending around five or six people.
Huawei, Lacavera says, sent five times that. They do it like it’s done in China, he says, piling on to get the job done fast. Usually Huawei’s price is cheaper, to boot. And if there’s a problem, Huawei’s representatives will arrive at Wind’s offices in a group of about six. They’ll silently nod as they hear about the glitch, accept blame for whatever has just occurred and promise to fix it immediately. Old-guard companies would push back, in Lacavera’s experience, blaming Wind or a third party for the error. Not Huawei. “Even if it’s our fault, they just sit there, eating it,” says Lacavera, shaking his head in disbelief. “I don’t see how anyone else can compete with them.”
Huawei, a supplier of telecommunications equipment and services based in Southern China, is now a global juggernaut. The company’s eagerness and aggressiveness have upended its entire industry, driving down prices that were set by old-world conglomerates. To many in the technology business, Huawei’s long march up the value chain is emblematic of the attempt by China as a whole to move, like Taiwan and Japan, beyond cheap manufacturing to a sustainably profitable knowledge economy. Looking down upon the hundreds of engineers working in Huawei’s Shanghai offices this year, one wireless executive simply thought to himself: “We’re screwed.” By “we,” he meant the West.
Huawei: Will China conquer the world?
iain marlow
From Friday's Globe and Mail
Published Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011 4:34PM EST
Last updated Friday, Nov. 25, 2011 8:39AM EST
As Wind Mobile considered bids for $30 million in contracts to expand its wireless network in Canada, one of the competing companies put in a peculiar request. Wind CEO Anthony Lacavera was talking to world-beating network equipment stalwarts like Ericsson and Nokia Siemens when the Chinese firm Huawei asked if it could rent office space at Wind’s headquarters on Toronto’s waterfront.
More related to this story
Lacavera could see no reason why not, and Huawei moved in 25 engineers who promptly began working with his staff to craft their bid. Lacavera was dumbstruck by how perfect the results were; Huawei won the contract.
As the network expanded, he looked to the Chinese company again. When operators like Wind build out cellular towers and rooftop antenna sites, they typically contract a company for a lump sum—between $250,000 and $500,000—and the work is done in the same fashion as most construction projects in the West: That is, one of the usual industry suspects does the job dutifully, sending around five or six people.
Huawei, Lacavera says, sent five times that. They do it like it’s done in China, he says, piling on to get the job done fast. Usually Huawei’s price is cheaper, to boot. And if there’s a problem, Huawei’s representatives will arrive at Wind’s offices in a group of about six. They’ll silently nod as they hear about the glitch, accept blame for whatever has just occurred and promise to fix it immediately. Old-guard companies would push back, in Lacavera’s experience, blaming Wind or a third party for the error. Not Huawei. “Even if it’s our fault, they just sit there, eating it,” says Lacavera, shaking his head in disbelief. “I don’t see how anyone else can compete with them.”
Huawei, a supplier of telecommunications equipment and services based in Southern China, is now a global juggernaut. The company’s eagerness and aggressiveness have upended its entire industry, driving down prices that were set by old-world conglomerates. To many in the technology business, Huawei’s long march up the value chain is emblematic of the attempt by China as a whole to move, like Taiwan and Japan, beyond cheap manufacturing to a sustainably profitable knowledge economy. Looking down upon the hundreds of engineers working in Huawei’s Shanghai offices this year, one wireless executive simply thought to himself: “We’re screwed.” By “we,” he meant the West.
AssassinsMace
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China's genome efforts key in fighting disease
Natasha Khan, Bloomberg News
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
German doctors racing this summer to halt the deadliest outbreak on record of E. coli turned to a Chinese genome-sequencing center for help unraveling the bacteria's genetic code, bypassing more established institutions in the United States and Europe.
China's BGI put the results online three days later, enabling researchers to trace the strain's origins while they tried to work out what caused the bug to kill at least 49 people and sicken thousands more in 13 countries.
Such missions are the payoff from a four-year drive to build the world's biggest sequencer of genomes - data used to fight disease, improve crops and save rare species.
Mapping genes of pathogens, rice and giant pandas helped BGI raise its profile and win clients such as Merck & Co. and Novartis AG. Still, the organization needs more skills to move it up the value chain. That mirrors challenges facing the country as a whole, where growth in spending on science is outstripping that in the United States and Europe as China seeks to escape from reliance on low-cost manufacturing.
" 'Made in China' is a label found everywhere," said Richard N. Zare, Stanford professor of chemistry, who chaired an international committee to evaluate the country's National Natural Science Foundation in the past year. "Clearly, the Chinese government also wants to see 'Discovered in China' and 'Invented in China' become more prominent."
China this year launched its first space laboratory and unveiled a stealth fighter jet, raising concerns in the United States and among Asian neighbors. Gains in civilian technologies offer a less-threatening way for the country that invented gunpowder and surpassed ancient Greece in calculating pi to recapture a leading role as a technological power.
The government has included biotechnology as one of seven strategic industries that it wants to account for 15 percent of gross domestic product by 2020, from around 3 percent now, Patrick A. Mulloy, a member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, told U.S. lawmakers in June at a hearing on China's strategic threat to American business.
Annual spending on research and development in China has grown 20 percent each year since 1999, to more than $100 billion now, the Royal Society said in a report. The number of scientific papers published in China surpassed Britain this year, and will overtake the United States by 2013, the London science fellowship said.
Having access to technology and being a science destination of choice "enhances China's soft power for sure," said Ren Yue, professor of international security at the University of Hong Kong. The government backing and growth prospects also help lure and retain talent, especially people who have spent time overseas, he said.
Government support hasn't always been forthcoming, as BGI Chairman Yang Huanming found. Following post-graduate studies in Denmark, France and the United States, he returned to China in 1994, determined to win the country a role in the Human Genome Project. When his funding requests failed, Yang and three others used their own money and won private backing to set up BGI in 1999.
The genome program, founded by the U.S. government to map out the genes in human DNA, had up until then excluded the world's most populous nation.
"The genome is basically a living document of who you are," said Fred Leung, professor of biological sciences at the University of Hong Kong. "If you have kids 10 years from now, their genome will likely be sequenced five times throughout their lives for medical and health reasons."
In its early years, the Beijing Genomics Institute operated from an industrial zone near the capital's airport. A few dozen employees used wooden packaging crates from imported sequencing machinery to build laboratory benches, said BGI spokeswoman Yang Bicheng.
Four years ago, Chairman Yang and the directors made the decision to reorganize along commercial lines to tap a DNA-sequencing market expected to reach $3.3 billion by 2015, from $1.3 billion in 2010, according to industry forecaster BCC Research.
Armed with a $1.58 billion credit line from state-backed China Development Bank Corp., BGI accelerated purchases of next-generation sequencers - machines that look like an amalgam of a giant fridge, photocopier and television.
BGI now has 167 of them and employs 3,680 people, out muscling more established nonprofit institutions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cambridge, England, in the volume of genetic data it can produce each year. At full capacity, BGI can now sequence the equivalent of 2,000 human genomes a day, spokeswoman Yang said. In a mark of how processing power has increased, it took 13 years for scientists to publish the first one.
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Natasha Khan, Bloomberg News
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
German doctors racing this summer to halt the deadliest outbreak on record of E. coli turned to a Chinese genome-sequencing center for help unraveling the bacteria's genetic code, bypassing more established institutions in the United States and Europe.
China's BGI put the results online three days later, enabling researchers to trace the strain's origins while they tried to work out what caused the bug to kill at least 49 people and sicken thousands more in 13 countries.
Such missions are the payoff from a four-year drive to build the world's biggest sequencer of genomes - data used to fight disease, improve crops and save rare species.
Mapping genes of pathogens, rice and giant pandas helped BGI raise its profile and win clients such as Merck & Co. and Novartis AG. Still, the organization needs more skills to move it up the value chain. That mirrors challenges facing the country as a whole, where growth in spending on science is outstripping that in the United States and Europe as China seeks to escape from reliance on low-cost manufacturing.
" 'Made in China' is a label found everywhere," said Richard N. Zare, Stanford professor of chemistry, who chaired an international committee to evaluate the country's National Natural Science Foundation in the past year. "Clearly, the Chinese government also wants to see 'Discovered in China' and 'Invented in China' become more prominent."
China this year launched its first space laboratory and unveiled a stealth fighter jet, raising concerns in the United States and among Asian neighbors. Gains in civilian technologies offer a less-threatening way for the country that invented gunpowder and surpassed ancient Greece in calculating pi to recapture a leading role as a technological power.
The government has included biotechnology as one of seven strategic industries that it wants to account for 15 percent of gross domestic product by 2020, from around 3 percent now, Patrick A. Mulloy, a member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, told U.S. lawmakers in June at a hearing on China's strategic threat to American business.
Annual spending on research and development in China has grown 20 percent each year since 1999, to more than $100 billion now, the Royal Society said in a report. The number of scientific papers published in China surpassed Britain this year, and will overtake the United States by 2013, the London science fellowship said.
Having access to technology and being a science destination of choice "enhances China's soft power for sure," said Ren Yue, professor of international security at the University of Hong Kong. The government backing and growth prospects also help lure and retain talent, especially people who have spent time overseas, he said.
Government support hasn't always been forthcoming, as BGI Chairman Yang Huanming found. Following post-graduate studies in Denmark, France and the United States, he returned to China in 1994, determined to win the country a role in the Human Genome Project. When his funding requests failed, Yang and three others used their own money and won private backing to set up BGI in 1999.
The genome program, founded by the U.S. government to map out the genes in human DNA, had up until then excluded the world's most populous nation.
"The genome is basically a living document of who you are," said Fred Leung, professor of biological sciences at the University of Hong Kong. "If you have kids 10 years from now, their genome will likely be sequenced five times throughout their lives for medical and health reasons."
In its early years, the Beijing Genomics Institute operated from an industrial zone near the capital's airport. A few dozen employees used wooden packaging crates from imported sequencing machinery to build laboratory benches, said BGI spokeswoman Yang Bicheng.
Four years ago, Chairman Yang and the directors made the decision to reorganize along commercial lines to tap a DNA-sequencing market expected to reach $3.3 billion by 2015, from $1.3 billion in 2010, according to industry forecaster BCC Research.
Armed with a $1.58 billion credit line from state-backed China Development Bank Corp., BGI accelerated purchases of next-generation sequencers - machines that look like an amalgam of a giant fridge, photocopier and television.
BGI now has 167 of them and employs 3,680 people, out muscling more established nonprofit institutions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cambridge, England, in the volume of genetic data it can produce each year. At full capacity, BGI can now sequence the equivalent of 2,000 human genomes a day, spokeswoman Yang said. In a mark of how processing power has increased, it took 13 years for scientists to publish the first one.
Market data provided by Bloomberg News
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AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
Bill Gates' Company and China Might Build Nuclear Reactor
By Susan Culver-Graybeal | Yahoo! Contributor Network – 6 hrs ago...
The South China Morning Post announced Monday that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, also the chairman of TerraPower, is holding talks with China National Nuclear Corp. to jointly develop a new nuclear reactor. Here are some of the details about the project:
The Reactor
According to TerraPower, the traveling wave reactor will convert depleted uranium into power with a "once-through" cycle. The TWR is fueled once, sealed up and can run without refueling for 40 years, the company claims. An 8-metric-ton canister of depleted uranium could generate 25 million megawatt-hours of electricity, enough to power 2.5 million U.S. households in one year.
The Benefits
The TWR will use the existing stockpile of available depleted uranium to provide zero-emission, proliferation-resistant energy. Currently there are 700,000 metric tons of this leftover uranium product in the U.S. It would reduce the need for enrichment. In addition to the amount of time each reactor could run, there will be no need to reprocess the fuel and there is less waste produced, which will cut down disposal costs.
Professor Lin Boqiang, director of Xiamen University's Center of China Energy Economics Research, states China, which has been in talks with TerraPower for two years, has a vast market for nuclear energy and has struggled with nuclear safety concerns since Japan's nuclear meltdown last March.
The Costs
The Associated Press reported Gates has said perhaps as much as $1 billion will be put into research and development over the next five years. In June, the company reported that it had completed its second round of financing and had raised more than $30 million.
Who is TerraPower?
Intellectual Ventures was founded by former CTO Nathan Myhrvold in 2000. In 2006 John Gilleland joined Intellectual Ventures to lead the project team exploring various nuclear reactor designs. TerraPower came of that endeavor in 2008, with Gilleland as CEO.
TerraPower has 50 experts working on research of the traveling wave reactor. Overall development and design of the TerraPower reactor is headed by Doug Adkisson, nuclear engineer who was senior operating manager of AREVA.
TerraPower's research partners include Burns & Roe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, Texas A&M University and Argonne National Laboratory, among others. Investment partners include Khosla Ventures, Charles River Ventures, Intellectual Ventures co-founder Nathan Myhrvold and investor Bill Gates. Gates serves as TerraPower's chairman of the board.
By Susan Culver-Graybeal | Yahoo! Contributor Network – 6 hrs ago...
The South China Morning Post announced Monday that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, also the chairman of TerraPower, is holding talks with China National Nuclear Corp. to jointly develop a new nuclear reactor. Here are some of the details about the project:
The Reactor
According to TerraPower, the traveling wave reactor will convert depleted uranium into power with a "once-through" cycle. The TWR is fueled once, sealed up and can run without refueling for 40 years, the company claims. An 8-metric-ton canister of depleted uranium could generate 25 million megawatt-hours of electricity, enough to power 2.5 million U.S. households in one year.
The Benefits
The TWR will use the existing stockpile of available depleted uranium to provide zero-emission, proliferation-resistant energy. Currently there are 700,000 metric tons of this leftover uranium product in the U.S. It would reduce the need for enrichment. In addition to the amount of time each reactor could run, there will be no need to reprocess the fuel and there is less waste produced, which will cut down disposal costs.
Professor Lin Boqiang, director of Xiamen University's Center of China Energy Economics Research, states China, which has been in talks with TerraPower for two years, has a vast market for nuclear energy and has struggled with nuclear safety concerns since Japan's nuclear meltdown last March.
The Costs
The Associated Press reported Gates has said perhaps as much as $1 billion will be put into research and development over the next five years. In June, the company reported that it had completed its second round of financing and had raised more than $30 million.
Who is TerraPower?
Intellectual Ventures was founded by former CTO Nathan Myhrvold in 2000. In 2006 John Gilleland joined Intellectual Ventures to lead the project team exploring various nuclear reactor designs. TerraPower came of that endeavor in 2008, with Gilleland as CEO.
TerraPower has 50 experts working on research of the traveling wave reactor. Overall development and design of the TerraPower reactor is headed by Doug Adkisson, nuclear engineer who was senior operating manager of AREVA.
TerraPower's research partners include Burns & Roe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, Texas A&M University and Argonne National Laboratory, among others. Investment partners include Khosla Ventures, Charles River Ventures, Intellectual Ventures co-founder Nathan Myhrvold and investor Bill Gates. Gates serves as TerraPower's chairman of the board.
Equation
Lieutenant General
Wow, not surprise Texas A&M Univ. is involved in this. They always have a very good engineering program and research facilities, although they're Aggies.