Automotive supplier TRW Automotive is planning to introduce heavy-duty Electric Park Brake (EPB) technology to the light truck market by 2017. According to TRW Automotive vice president Ed Carpenter, the introduction of EPB to SUVs and ...
Tags: Light Trucks, Electric Park Brake
General Motors’ Chevrolet division will showcase its 2016 Chevrolet Malibu car at this year’s New York International Auto Show. The car will be built upon a new architecture and will feature wheelbase nearly four inches longer ...
China will quicken the pace of implementing the strategy of free trade zones (FTZs) and turn institutional innovation into a strong impetus for the country's development, President Xi Jinping said Thursday.[Special coverage] To speed up ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, China
China unveiled its economic growth target for 2015 Thursday, putting an end to months of speculation.[Special coverage] The target, as expected, was lowered to "around 7 percent," a level not seen since 2004 and 0.5 percentage points ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Growth
China will stabilize its property market this year, with tailored, market-based policies to guide "stable and healthy development," according to the government work report delivered by Premier Li Keqiang Thursday.[Special coverage] ...
China will accelerate price reform this year in sectors such as electric power, head of the country's top price regulator said Thursday. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) will further strengthen its efforts on price ...
Tags: Price Reform, electric power
The Chinese economy is confronted with more difficulties than anticipated in 2014, but it has scored more achievements than expected, said Xu Shaoshi, minister in charge of the National Development and Reform Commission, China's top ...
China's confidence in achieving its economic growth rate of around 7 percent this year is not weakened despite rising downward pressure, a senior official said Thursday. The economic development has entered "new normal" and economic ...
The latest data from the Australian Industry Group (AIG) Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index (PMI) indicates that Australia's manufacturing sector has contracted for the third month in a row, and that subdued domestic demand is ...
Activity in China's services sector grew modestly in February as new orders rose at their quickest pace in three months, a private survey showed just a few days after the central bank cut interest rates to stimulate the world's ...
Tags: HSBC Services, PMI
Dramatic monetary policies in Europe have lots of potential to create a new surge of hot money inflow into China, says Simon Derrick, chief currency strategist at the Bank of New York Mellon. Hot money is speculative money that flows ...
The Chinese economy is expected to grow 7 percent in the first quarter of 2015, according to an estimate released by the State Information Center, a government think tank, on Monday. A steady slowdown is expected for the Chinese economy, ...
Tags: Chinese economy, steady slowdown
China's economy is likely to grow at a medium-to-high rate under the "new normal", Economic Daily reported Justin Yifu Lin, a member of China's 12th CPPCC as saying on Monday. Under the "new normal", China has both the conditions and the ...
Tags: medium-to-high rate, new normal
In previous posts, I examined the high-tech industry in significant detail by picking a representative sample of leading systems, software, and semiconductor companies. Taken as a group, the selected firms serve the full range of ...
Tags: Electronics Industry, Electronics
The fur trade has slowed over the past year in China, but rising demand from northern parts of the country and smaller cities has been a strong factor in global sales growth and prices this year, according to industry participants. Mark ...