Industry Views on a Variety of Industries and Products - Made-in-China.com

All-in-One PC Shipments to Increase in 2017

Feb 13, 2017

Because of weak demand for all-in-one PCs, worldwide all-in-one ((AIO) PC shipments fell 4.8% on year to total only 12.11 million units in 2016, the third consecutive year of on-year declines. However, the shipment volume is expected to ...

Tags: All-in-One PC, PC

Most Chinese Trust Domestic High-Tech Products

Feb 12, 2017

The majority of Chinese people believe that home produced products have made great progress over the past decade, according to a survey conducted by China Youth Daily. In the survey of 2000 netizens, 65.1 percent of respondents say mobile ...

Tags: High-Tech Products, mobile phones

PV Market Witnesses Stagnation in Prices

Feb 11, 2017

Although the Lunar New Year holiday has ended, employees in China will have to wait until the Lantern Festival to return to work. In addition, power plant installation has been suspended in China during the Lunar New Year holiday, leading ...

Tags: PV Market, Solar Cell

Demand for LED Chips for LED Displays to Grow

Feb 10, 2017

Global demand for LED chips used in fine pixel pitch displays in 2017 will increase 30-40% on year, according to industry sources in Taiwan. The growth is due to increasing demand for such displays and increasing density of LED chips per ...

Tags: LED chips, LED Displays

PC Industry Expected to Stabilize in 2017

Feb 9, 2017

With AMD ready to release Ryzen CPUs and Vega GPUs, sources from the upstream supply chain expect the PC industry to stabilize and see a less than 5% on-year shipment drop in 2017, while PC and related component sales in the first quarter ...

Tags: PC Industry, CPU

Las Vegas 2017 Winter Market Registers Strong Attendance

Feb 8, 2017

Steady buyer and designer attendance and strong order-writing set a positive tone at the largest-ever Winter 2017 Las Vegas Market, which ran January 22 to 26, 2017. Overall attendance surpassed last Winter’s all-time high, with 13% ...

Tags: furniture, Winter Market

124.2 Million Smartphones Shipped in 4Q16

Feb 8, 2017

There were 124.2 million smartphones shipped in the China market in the fourth quarter of 2016, increasing 8.0% on quarter and 5.3% on year and accounting for 29.6% of the global total, according to Digitimes Research. China-based vendors ...

Tags: Smartphones, Huawei

The Lighting Industry Today, Tomorrow and Beyond

Feb 7, 2017

What would be your prediction for lighting in 10 years’ time? Majority of commercial members won’t be supplying commodity type luminaires but in order to prosper will need to adapt to the need for more specialist products or ...

Tags: Lighting Industry, Lighting

China Tops World in PV Energy Capacity in 2016

Feb 6, 2017

China has the largest capacity for photovoltaic (PV) energy in the world, official data showed Saturday. China's installed PV capacity was 77.42 million kilowatts at the end of 2016, thanks to 34.54 million kilowatts of capacity added ...

Tags: PV Energy, PV Capacity

China Makers Expanding AMOLED Capacity

Feb 4, 2017

Seven China-based panel makers have been expanding existing or setting up new AMOLED production capacities, with total annual capacity estimated to increase from 272,000 square meters in 2016 to 1.584 million square meters in 2018, 4.464 ...

Tags: AMOLED, Panel

Coal Production Down 9.4 Pct in 2016

Feb 3, 2017

Amid the country's effort to build a greener energy system, the country's raw coal production by its large-size coal companies continued to decline in 2016. Combined raw coal production from the country's designated large coal companies ...

Tags: Coal Production, Coal

China Lowers Insurance Firm's Caps in Stocks

Feb 2, 2017

China’s insurance regulator on Tuesday announced a ban on insurers acquiring listed firms in concert with non-insurance parties, in a latest move to limit insurance assets invested in equity markets. According to new rules set by ...

Tags: Insurance, Stocks

China's Real Estate Investors Invest More Abroad

Feb 1, 2017

The exponentially expanding appetite of Chinese mainland capital for international real estate assets reached a record high in 2016-and is likely to continue to play a significant role in the global property market in the next few ...

Tags: real estate assets

China 13th Five-Year Plan Goal

Jan 31, 2017

China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) officially released the full articles of the 13th Five-Year Plan, regulating the energy development roadmap and action plan from 2016 to 2020. For solar PV, the basic ...

Tags: low-carbon energy, solar PV

Butadiene-Naphtha Spread Hits 7-Year High

Jan 30, 2017

The Asian butadiene-naphtha price spread hit a seven-year high of $2,557.38/mt CFR last Friday amid extremely tight supply globally and strong demand for downstream products such as styrene-butadiene-rubber, SB latex and ...

Tags: Butadiene Naphtha, styrene