Airbus Chief Executive Officer Thomas Enders said here on Saturday, he plans to expand his company's manufacturing and engineering projects throughout the world.
Currently, 65 percent of Airbus' planes are sold in the Europe. Enders said the company must broaden its market to ensure success. Those future markets include Asia.
China showed robust growth in civil aviation. According to an estimate by Airbus last February, the mainland of China would need more than 3,000 aircraft between 2006 and 2025, including 180 super jumbo passenger planes.
China set up its first ever jumbo passenger aircraft company in Shanghai last May. It was a major step in the country's large jet program.
The company, named Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd. , is expected to build aircraft with a take-off weight of more than 100 tons, which includes more than 150 seats.
While attending the Sept. 27-28 Summer Davos Forum, held in the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin, Enders expressed his hopes to join in China's large plane project.
"We look forward to strengthening research and development with Chinese enterprises and will probably triple out-sourcing volume in China, which is to reach half a billion U.S. dollars in the next couple of years," said Enders.
He added a new Tianjin-based Airbus A320 manufacturing plant would be officially inaugurated Sept. 28.
The assembly plant is a joint venture between Airbus and Tianjin Zhongtian Aviation Industry Investment Co., a Chinese alliance of the AVIC I, AVIC II, and Tianjin Bonded Zone Investment Group.
AVIC I and AVIC II are China's two leading state-owned aviation manufacturers.
Source: Xinhua
Monday, September 29, 2008
China Telecom plans multi-billion dollar upgrade of CDMA network
China Telecommunications Corporation said on Saturday it would invest 80 billion yuan to upgrade its newly acquired CDMA network.
Starting Oct. 1, Telecom Group takes over the network, which was transferred from China United Communications Corporation , parent company of the wireless service provider China Unicom.
The transfer is expected to be finished in three months.
According to Telecom Group, broadening the wireless CDMA network coverage would be its top priority in the next quarter.
The company said the first phase of work includes building a batch of new CDMA base stations in cities, improving coverage in counties and townships, and beefing up indoor coverage by FMC services.
Telecom group also plans to increase cell phones wireless Internet speed over the next three years.
The country's telecom reshuffling forms three market contenders, in which China Mobile, China Netcome , and China Telecom would compete against each other, each with fixed and wireless services.
Source: Xinhua
Starting Oct. 1, Telecom Group takes over the network, which was transferred from China United Communications Corporation , parent company of the wireless service provider China Unicom.
The transfer is expected to be finished in three months.
According to Telecom Group, broadening the wireless CDMA network coverage would be its top priority in the next quarter.
The company said the first phase of work includes building a batch of new CDMA base stations in cities, improving coverage in counties and townships, and beefing up indoor coverage by FMC services.
Telecom group also plans to increase cell phones wireless Internet speed over the next three years.
The country's telecom reshuffling forms three market contenders, in which China Mobile, China Netcome , and China Telecom would compete against each other, each with fixed and wireless services.
Source: Xinhua
China's economy in good shape despite global financial chaos
China's economy was in good shape and capable of maintaining financial stability despite global chaos, Liu Mingkang, chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission , said on Saturday.
Liu made the remarks at the ongoing 2008 Summer Davos forum, also known as the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2008, which kicked off on Saturday in the north China metropolis of Tianjin.
Though feeling gloomy about the outlook of the world economy, most attendees were confident about China's economic prospects.
"China has full confidence and capabilities to ensure sound and fast economic growth for a long period of time," Premier Wen Jiabao said at the opening ceremony.
Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, said China is still a fast growing economy and maylead the world economy in the future.
But for now, as the financial market globalizes, no country could escape the financial crisis, Liu said.
He forecast the annual economic growth would slow to between 9 percent or 9.5 percent, as falling consumer spending in Europe and the United States cut export demands. China's economy expanded 11.9 percent last year.
"This is not a bad thing for China," Liu said, "China needs not only speed, but also quality."
"We had more room to boost growth as consumption and investment demands could make up for the falling exports," Liu said.
Speaking about the U.S. government's 700 billion dollar bailout package, Liu said, it would boost market confidence, but not enough for a cure.
He compared the proposed rescue plan to convenient "fast food", and said "slow and fine-cooked food" was what the world needs.
According to William R. Rhodes, Senior Vice-Chairman of Citigroup, the People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, was working closely with the U.S. Federal Reserve on a series of measures to contain the impact of financial crisis. CBRC was also in close consultation with the Fed.
Source: Xinhua
Liu made the remarks at the ongoing 2008 Summer Davos forum, also known as the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2008, which kicked off on Saturday in the north China metropolis of Tianjin.
Though feeling gloomy about the outlook of the world economy, most attendees were confident about China's economic prospects.
"China has full confidence and capabilities to ensure sound and fast economic growth for a long period of time," Premier Wen Jiabao said at the opening ceremony.
Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, said China is still a fast growing economy and maylead the world economy in the future.
But for now, as the financial market globalizes, no country could escape the financial crisis, Liu said.
He forecast the annual economic growth would slow to between 9 percent or 9.5 percent, as falling consumer spending in Europe and the United States cut export demands. China's economy expanded 11.9 percent last year.
"This is not a bad thing for China," Liu said, "China needs not only speed, but also quality."
"We had more room to boost growth as consumption and investment demands could make up for the falling exports," Liu said.
Speaking about the U.S. government's 700 billion dollar bailout package, Liu said, it would boost market confidence, but not enough for a cure.
He compared the proposed rescue plan to convenient "fast food", and said "slow and fine-cooked food" was what the world needs.
According to William R. Rhodes, Senior Vice-Chairman of Citigroup, the People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, was working closely with the U.S. Federal Reserve on a series of measures to contain the impact of financial crisis. CBRC was also in close consultation with the Fed.
Source: Xinhua
Chinese rice production regions urged to guard against cold dew wind
China's Ministry of Agriculture warned on Saturday that the country's late rice production areas should be alert to the cold dew wind that may affect crop harvests in the following days.
China Meteorological Administration forecasted a temperature drop to the tune of 4 to 6 degrees centigrade in some central and eastern provinces. The CMA also predicted cold dew wind in northern parts of central Hunan and Jiangxi provinces, said the MOA in an urgent notice on its official website www.agri.gov.cn.
"Local agricultural authorities should formulate emergency plans, strengthen rice paddy management and take effective measures to reduce damages from the low temperature in autumn," said the notice.
The middle and late October is the harvest season for late rice in most of the production areas nationwide.
CMA also said on Saturday that it would be clear or cloudy in most northern areas before Oct. 3 and suitable for traveling during the coming one-week National Day holiday which starts from Sept. 29.
Source: Xinhua
China Meteorological Administration forecasted a temperature drop to the tune of 4 to 6 degrees centigrade in some central and eastern provinces. The CMA also predicted cold dew wind in northern parts of central Hunan and Jiangxi provinces, said the MOA in an urgent notice on its official website www.agri.gov.cn.
"Local agricultural authorities should formulate emergency plans, strengthen rice paddy management and take effective measures to reduce damages from the low temperature in autumn," said the notice.
The middle and late October is the harvest season for late rice in most of the production areas nationwide.
CMA also said on Saturday that it would be clear or cloudy in most northern areas before Oct. 3 and suitable for traveling during the coming one-week National Day holiday which starts from Sept. 29.
Source: Xinhua
Chinese premier urges exporters to develop their own brands
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Saturday called on domestic exporters to develop their own brands and intellectual property rights and improve product quality.
In a brief meeting with the entrepreneurs attending the 2008 Summer Davos, also known as the Annual Meeting of New Champions, Wen acknowledged that China's exports have been growing very quickly, but they do lack brands and their own IPRs in particular.
"The competition in the current world is actually decided by intellectual property rights," he told the entrepreneurs shortly before addressing the opening ceremony of the economic forum organized by the prestigious World Economic Forum.
Wen said he believed the intelligent Chinese people would finally be able to build their own brand names for exports, if provided with right policies and a liberal and equal environment.
But the premier also warned that "it is going to be a tough process."
Wen also exchanged views on China's macro-economic policies and food safety as well as the current financial crisis with the entrepreneurs.
Source: Xinhua
In a brief meeting with the entrepreneurs attending the 2008 Summer Davos, also known as the Annual Meeting of New Champions, Wen acknowledged that China's exports have been growing very quickly, but they do lack brands and their own IPRs in particular.
"The competition in the current world is actually decided by intellectual property rights," he told the entrepreneurs shortly before addressing the opening ceremony of the economic forum organized by the prestigious World Economic Forum.
Wen said he believed the intelligent Chinese people would finally be able to build their own brand names for exports, if provided with right policies and a liberal and equal environment.
But the premier also warned that "it is going to be a tough process."
Wen also exchanged views on China's macro-economic policies and food safety as well as the current financial crisis with the entrepreneurs.
Source: Xinhua
2 space experiments with numerous breakthroughs
When the Shenzhou-7 spacecraft had made 29th orbit, Chinese Taikonaut Zhai Zhigang slipped out of the orbital module and collected after accomplishing a "space walk" the test examples of solid lubricant and solar cell base panel placed outside the orbit module and, when the spacecraft had made 31st orbit, an 88-pound satellite was released, which would circle the orbital module and send back images to mission control command.
For these feats, People's Daily reporters Liao Wengen and Yu Jianbin have had an exclusive interview with Zhao Guangheng, deputy chief designer of China's manned space program's application system, on these amazing experiments and the related topics.
Reporter: For what deliberations do you introduce solid lubricant, and what is its size and how much does it weight?
Zhao: The designed solid lubricant is based on meticulous thoughts and careful considerations from several aspects: The first is to facilitate the spaceman's operation; the second to meet a demand for high efficiency of both spacemen and spacecraft; and the third to ensure that it is safe without any harm to be done to spacemen and it is also reliable in the whole process of the blast-off, in-orbit moving and spacemen's recovery of material.
The installation, in the form of 170 by 100 by 210 mm., weights three kilograms in itself and the specimen recovered is merely 2.3 kg in weight after being removed from the installation seat on the orbit module.
Reporter: Why do you take to use these two types of materials for the space-exposed test?
Zhao: This is China's first-ever space-exposed test of solid lubricant and solar cell panel. These two types of materials have been put in wide use on spaceflight vehicles, and it can be said that there is no choice but to use them on space aircraft.
Common lubricants can be volatile easily in the vacuum conditions and so solid lubricants have to be used. The lubricant used for the test on the space module comprises 11 varieties in four major categories, comprising those we have put to use before or we are now using, and also those we will possibly to put to use in years ahead, including some materrials yet to be utilized overseas.
Solar cells are used in all spaceflight vehicles, and how to make solar cell base more reliable with a longer lifespan, what impact the outer space environment will have on the base materials and what filmy stuff is more suitable for use in outer space? So I feel it imperative to carry out the space test of these materials, a suggestion made by the 8th Academy of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation .
Reporter: What environmental factors should we attach importance to the space-exposed test?
Zhao: Close attention should be given chiefly to the impact of two environmental factors: One is the impact of atomic oxygen in rarefied air as the high-speed inflow of atomic oxygen will erode to some extent a polymer that contains inorganic material. The other is the ultra-violent radiation, as many materials in the outer space can possibly decay from prolonged the ultra-violent radiation due to much stronger radiation from ultra-violent light and cosmic rays.
The taikonaut has recovered the installation during his extravehicular activities with an implication that related researches will continue on the ground, and it needs to take into account whether environmental factors will impact on materials in the course of experiments. It seems that the two-day-impact of atomic oxygen has been reflected, and ground tests can already back up and testify to this point.
Contents of the future outer space tests are not just confined to this realm. The trial-test has another purpose, that is, to guide ways and means of setting up modules with the help of outer space researches, and the setting up of ground module models will help guide the selection of the future materials and the application in space.
Reporter: How was the accompanying satellite released, and what was its mission?
Zhao: The satellite was released via two methods, that is, by both ground remote control and the hand-control by spacemen. The flight of the small satellite has three tasks to fulfill, namely, to test the in-orbit release technology, to take photos and transmit video images, and to experiment on the technology relating to the accompanying flight.
Reporter: What difficulties and challenges does the accompanying flight involve?
Zhao: Accompanying flight has certain difficulties and challenges. To make sure the satellite moves round the projected orbit, accurate orbit control has to be performed, so that it will be able to attain the goal for the flying around the "no-cooperation target", and this constitutes a breakthrough in technology.
Reporter: what other significances does the accompanying satellite have?
Zhao: As far as a manned space program is concerned, the significance of the satellite released can be shown mainly in the ensuing spheres: the first to monitor all EVA situations of the manned spacecraft so as to provide a test platform of experimental verification of environmental control and life support system on the manned spacecraft; secondly to provide some experience for spacecraft rendezvous and docking ; and thirdly to greatly raise the capacity of extending the area of space science and space application as we now have composite spaceflight vehicles, both parent and subsidiary spacecraft.
By People's Daily Online
For these feats, People's Daily reporters Liao Wengen and Yu Jianbin have had an exclusive interview with Zhao Guangheng, deputy chief designer of China's manned space program's application system, on these amazing experiments and the related topics.
Reporter: For what deliberations do you introduce solid lubricant, and what is its size and how much does it weight?
Zhao: The designed solid lubricant is based on meticulous thoughts and careful considerations from several aspects: The first is to facilitate the spaceman's operation; the second to meet a demand for high efficiency of both spacemen and spacecraft; and the third to ensure that it is safe without any harm to be done to spacemen and it is also reliable in the whole process of the blast-off, in-orbit moving and spacemen's recovery of material.
The installation, in the form of 170 by 100 by 210 mm., weights three kilograms in itself and the specimen recovered is merely 2.3 kg in weight after being removed from the installation seat on the orbit module.
Reporter: Why do you take to use these two types of materials for the space-exposed test?
Zhao: This is China's first-ever space-exposed test of solid lubricant and solar cell panel. These two types of materials have been put in wide use on spaceflight vehicles, and it can be said that there is no choice but to use them on space aircraft.
Common lubricants can be volatile easily in the vacuum conditions and so solid lubricants have to be used. The lubricant used for the test on the space module comprises 11 varieties in four major categories, comprising those we have put to use before or we are now using, and also those we will possibly to put to use in years ahead, including some materrials yet to be utilized overseas.
Solar cells are used in all spaceflight vehicles, and how to make solar cell base more reliable with a longer lifespan, what impact the outer space environment will have on the base materials and what filmy stuff is more suitable for use in outer space? So I feel it imperative to carry out the space test of these materials, a suggestion made by the 8th Academy of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation .
Reporter: What environmental factors should we attach importance to the space-exposed test?
Zhao: Close attention should be given chiefly to the impact of two environmental factors: One is the impact of atomic oxygen in rarefied air as the high-speed inflow of atomic oxygen will erode to some extent a polymer that contains inorganic material. The other is the ultra-violent radiation, as many materials in the outer space can possibly decay from prolonged the ultra-violent radiation due to much stronger radiation from ultra-violent light and cosmic rays.
The taikonaut has recovered the installation during his extravehicular activities with an implication that related researches will continue on the ground, and it needs to take into account whether environmental factors will impact on materials in the course of experiments. It seems that the two-day-impact of atomic oxygen has been reflected, and ground tests can already back up and testify to this point.
Contents of the future outer space tests are not just confined to this realm. The trial-test has another purpose, that is, to guide ways and means of setting up modules with the help of outer space researches, and the setting up of ground module models will help guide the selection of the future materials and the application in space.
Reporter: How was the accompanying satellite released, and what was its mission?
Zhao: The satellite was released via two methods, that is, by both ground remote control and the hand-control by spacemen. The flight of the small satellite has three tasks to fulfill, namely, to test the in-orbit release technology, to take photos and transmit video images, and to experiment on the technology relating to the accompanying flight.
Reporter: What difficulties and challenges does the accompanying flight involve?
Zhao: Accompanying flight has certain difficulties and challenges. To make sure the satellite moves round the projected orbit, accurate orbit control has to be performed, so that it will be able to attain the goal for the flying around the "no-cooperation target", and this constitutes a breakthrough in technology.
Reporter: what other significances does the accompanying satellite have?
Zhao: As far as a manned space program is concerned, the significance of the satellite released can be shown mainly in the ensuing spheres: the first to monitor all EVA situations of the manned spacecraft so as to provide a test platform of experimental verification of environmental control and life support system on the manned spacecraft; secondly to provide some experience for spacecraft rendezvous and docking ; and thirdly to greatly raise the capacity of extending the area of space science and space application as we now have composite spaceflight vehicles, both parent and subsidiary spacecraft.
By People's Daily Online
DPRK accuses U.S. of breaking six-party nuclear agreement
The DPRK Vice Foreign Minister Pak Kil Yon, in a speech to the UN General Assembly's general debate on Saturday, accused the United States of breaking a six-party nuclear agreement and vowed to take countermeasures.
"The U.S. has laid an artificial obstacle to implementing the October 3 agreement by refusing to implement her obligations and put forward such an unjust demand as verification of the ' international standard' never agreed on among the six parties or between the DPRK and the U.S.," the DPRK high official said, referring to the nuclear agreement reached by the six parties in Beijing on Oct. 3, 2007.
"The 'international standard' asserted by the U.S. is nothing but 'special inspection' which the IAEA called for in the 1990s to infringe upon the sovereignty of the DPRK and caused it to pull out of the NPT in the end," he said.
"Now that the U.S. has broken the agreement, the DPRK is inevitably taking relevant countermeasures on the basis of the principle of 'action for action,'" the DPRK official said.
Under the 2007 nuclear deal, the DPRK pledged to disable its nuclear program in a step toward its eventual disarmament in exchange for diplomatic concessions and energy aid. But the accord has been stalled due to disputes over the verification of a nuclear declaration between the DPRK and the United States.
Source:Xinhua
"The U.S. has laid an artificial obstacle to implementing the October 3 agreement by refusing to implement her obligations and put forward such an unjust demand as verification of the ' international standard' never agreed on among the six parties or between the DPRK and the U.S.," the DPRK high official said, referring to the nuclear agreement reached by the six parties in Beijing on Oct. 3, 2007.
"The 'international standard' asserted by the U.S. is nothing but 'special inspection' which the IAEA called for in the 1990s to infringe upon the sovereignty of the DPRK and caused it to pull out of the NPT in the end," he said.
"Now that the U.S. has broken the agreement, the DPRK is inevitably taking relevant countermeasures on the basis of the principle of 'action for action,'" the DPRK official said.
Under the 2007 nuclear deal, the DPRK pledged to disable its nuclear program in a step toward its eventual disarmament in exchange for diplomatic concessions and energy aid. But the accord has been stalled due to disputes over the verification of a nuclear declaration between the DPRK and the United States.
Source:Xinhua
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)