There were 106.83 million handsets sold in the China market during fourth-quarter 2013, growing 4.1% sequentially and 54.8% on year. Smartphones accounted for 97.63 million units, increasing 4.9% sequentially and 71.4% on year, according to ...
Tags: Smartphone Sales, China market, Smartphones
Efforts by China-based smartphone vendors to push sales through online trading is likely to result in significant impacts on sales volumes and vendor rankings in the China market in 2014 and beyond, according to industry watchers in Taiwan. ...
Tags: Online Smartphone, Huawei, Coolpad
Not content with selling gas domestically, some of China's private gas distribution companies are becoming increasingly ambitious and are planning to enter the LNG import business, competing directly with state-owned LNG buyers such as ...
Tags: Gas, LNG Imports, Natural Gas
China is the major exporter of the world , but also face with a lot of restrictions on exports.As a typical form of labor-intensive industries, stationery exports industry of China is facing with the atrophy of external market, ...
Tags: Stationery, Office Supplies, lead
East China's ferrous scrap prices fell sharply this week amid weaker raw material, finished steel and steel futures markets in the first-half of the week. Platts assessed heavy scrap over 6 mm at Yuan 2,320/mt ($377/mt) on a delivered ...
Tags: Ferrous Scrap, Raw Material, Steel Markets
South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor is set to commence the production of heavy-duty trucks in China in 2014. The company will produce its Trago cargo and dump trucks at a new manufacturing plant in Sichuan province, which is slated to ...
Tags: Heavy-Duty Trucks, Truck, Transportation
China's refinery crude throughput over January and February dipped 1% year on year to 78.78 million mt, or an average of 9.79 million b/d, according to preliminary data from the country's National Bureau of Statistics released Thursday. ...
The focus in the Chinese spot market was back on domestic thermal coal prices, which buckled in Asia trade and caused buying interest on cargoes of imported fuel to sink below $75/mt CFR South China in many cases, said market sources. ...
Tags: Buckles, Thermal Coal
While China continues to be the rare earth industry leader, producing about 92% of the global output, its share in global production has decreased steadily in recent years, a study by Germany's Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural ...
Tags: Rare Earths, mining, industry leader
China's National Energy Administration (NEA) officially announced its PV installation target of 14GW in this year’s energy scheme. It points out that the country plans to install 8GW of distributed generation (DG) system this year. ...
Tags: PV Installation, PV System
In February this year, the value of Taiwan's iron and steel exports increased by 12.7 percent year on year and decreased by 18.6 percent compared to January to $1.29 billion, according to the preliminary statistics issued by Taiwan's ...
Tags: Iron, Steel, Metallurgy
In the January-February period this year, the volume of metallurgical coke exports from China's Shanxi province indicated a 12.4-fold year-on-year increase to 262,000 mt, according to the customs authorities in Taiyuan, capital city of ...
Tags: Coke, Energy, Mineral, Metallurgy
Starting Monday the value of the renminbi will be allowed to fluctuate 2% above or below a daily reference rate set by the People’s Bank of China. Widening the band, which had a 1% range in both directions since April 2012, was a ...
Tags: Yuan Trading Band, central bank
Gold prices are expected to build on its recent gains this week, as concerns over China's economy and the crisis in Ukraine will keep pushing the precious metal up, say 84% of the experts interviewed in the latest Kitco Gold Survey. From ...
Tags: Gold Prices, precious metal
Fears of China moving to ban the import of lower grade coal have again resurfaced amid concern over the country's high pollution levels, with several market participants indicating that the government is seriously contemplating such a move ...