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China Machinery Industry

The machinery industry has a major bearing on China’s manufacturing industry. In 2004, China’s machinery industry accounted for 17.0% and 10.6% respectively of national sales and exports. Rapid economic development in China has led to a corresponding increase in industrial machinery. Almost all leading international players have formed joint ventures in China including John-Deere, Daewoo, Hitachi, Parker, Sanyo, ABB, Emerson, Siemens and Volvo.

Chinese machine builders are also enhancing their international participation through larger exports as well as a higher degree of internationalization. At an average annual growth rate (AAGR) of 12.0%, in 2010 consumption is estimated to reach 0.14 billion. In the near future, China will be an important player in the global industrial machinery marketplace.

Representative Machinery

1. Agriculture Machinery
Today China’s agriculture is a new era of historical development. In a long period of time from now on, expanding operating scope, industrialized management, sustainable development, and scientific and technical innovation in agriculture shall be the four tendencies and driving forces. The development and adjustment of economic construction in agriculture requires higher level and larger scope of mechanization. Now mechanization has already developed from the traditional growing wheat to rice, maize, from traditional tillage to protecting tillage, from machine for producing grain crops to oil crops and cotton economic crops, from growing to livestock farming, aquatic products industry, fruit growing, garden farmland and manufacturing agriculture products etc. So there is a bright future of market for farm machinery.

2. Construction Machinery
Construction machinery is the largest customer of hydraulic products, which makes up about more than 40% of the total market volume of hydraulic products. The percentage shall further increase in the future. China is in an extensive developing and constructing period, thus the demand of construction machinery in the coming several decades will up, and China will be the largest market in the world.

3. Metallurgical and Mining Equipment
The total demand of steel in China reached 352 million tons in 2005. Therefore steel and iron industry shall speed up the adjustment of product structure. In the next 10～15 years, put stress on manufacturing flat plate steel, especially sheet steel and products with high additional value. State should enlarge the investment for them and make the degree of self-sufficiency of steel reach 90%.
For this reason, China need to use advanced machines to replace the backward machine, to realize continuous and automatic production with equipments in large scale, and upgrade the industry. Meanwhile China will give great impetus to process of group-collection for iron and steel industry, carry out technical reform of manufacturing process for large enterprises, make every effort to raise the utilization rate of steel by 10%～20%, take further steps to save energy by 15%～20%. Consequently, many new continuous casting machine and cold/hot rolling mill etc are needed.

4. Machine Tools
Along with the progress of manufacturing technique, China’s demands for high precision, high-efficiency CNC machines, is getting more and more. By the year 2010, the yearly output of CNC machine tools will be approximately 50,000 units. Now, in China there are about 3 million machine tools in use, and it is expected that about 4 million units machine tools will be in use by the year 2010.

5. Plastic Machinery
The demand for plastic products will increase remarkably to cater for the development in the fields of agriculture, automobile, electronics, light, foodstuff, packaging and construction industries and the improved living standard of the people as well. At present, the total output value of plastic in China has come to the forefront of the world, but the annual plastic consumption per capita is only 14.5 kg, less than the 20 kg world average annual consumption per capita and far from the 50 kg to 100 kg annual consumption per capita in developed countries. It is expected by the year 2010 to be a litter bit higher than the world average annual consumption per capita. The growing consumption of plastic products provides the opportunity for developing plastic machinery. It is expected that the annual demand for plastic machinery will be about 150, 000 units by the year 2010.

6. Petrochemical Equipment
Energy problem shall be the restricted factor in a long period of time in developing national economy. Accelerating the development of energy industry is of great urgency. State need to accelerate the development of petroleum and natural gas, except the project to deliver natural gas from the west to the east and other petrochemical projects are under construction, in the period of 11th five year plan shall be built 5000 km high pressure crude oil pipeline. Besides, in this period the demand of oil refining, ethylene and three synthetic materials (synthetic resin, synthetic rubber, synthetic fibre) shall increase at the rate of 6%～9%. So, there need collection and delivery equipment for oil and gas and large-scale and high-efficiency petrochemical equipment with the emphasis laid on the development of large-scale petroleum prospecting and drilling equipment for desert and ocean, large complete equipment with a yearly output of 600 000 ton ethylene, 450 000 ton synthetic ammonia, 800, 000 ton urea and chemical fibres etc.

8. Food-stuff, Packaging, Electronics, Light-industry and Textile Equipment
The emphasis is laid on the development of various high-efficiency, energy saving, multifunctional and automated complete sets of equipment and production lines, such as various liquid filling lines, production lines of fast foods and puffed foods, sterile medicine production lines and packaging lines, bag-making and bag-filling lines, suitcase making lines, high-speed tobacco processing machinery, air-jet looms, automatic winders and production lines of various household electrical appliances and electronic apparatus.

9. Harbor Terminal Facilities
In order to meet the demand of domestic construction and enlarged export and import trade, task for building coastal port and inland port is very heavy, a great number of ship loaders, car dumpers, stacking machines and container cargo handling equipment will be additionally provided or updated.

10. Ship-building and Ocean Engineering Equipment
By the year 2010, the total yearly production capacity of ship building industry will be about 10 million ton, account for 30% of the world annual output, with the emphasis laid on the development of large ocean-going tankers, LPG ships, container ships, engineering vessels, bulk ships, high-speed passenger liners and ocean-going fishing vessels. Ocean engineering equipment shall be put stress on building large engineering facilities for recovering ocean petroleum, such as large self-rising drilling ship, deep sea drilling machine, heavy-load lift, large crane and piping erection ship.

11. Power Generating Equipment
At present, electric supply has become the bottle neck, which restricts the development of economy. In the coming 20 years, the largest power-building market will be in China. Water, coal, nuclear and gas are the four pillar for power generating in China. It is estimated that the installed capacity by the year 2020 will be 960 000 megawatt, but the installed capacity per capita only 0.67 kW, less than half of that in developed countries. In future, every year need to add new installed capacity of more than 200 000～300 000 megawatt.

12. Environmental Protection Equipment
In order to keep the development of economy, society and environment well coordinated, and make the ecological damages and environmental pollution well controlled, environmental quality and comprehensive utilization of resources are raised further, state will add the investment for ecological preservation and environmental protection. China is putting emphasis on developing: urban sewage and solid wastes disposal and comprehensive utilization equipment, urban and industrial noise control equipment and atmospheric pollution control equipment.

Machinery Trade Shows
The 12th China Xiamen Machinery and Electronics Exhibition (CXMEE)
The 12th China Xiamen Machinery and Electronics Exhibition (CXMEE), authorized by China’s Ministry of Commerce, is jointly organized by the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Machinery and Electronics Products, the Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers Association, the Xiamen Municipal People’s Government. It will take place in Xiamen, China on April 8-11, 2008.

7th China (Hangzhou) International Machine Tool and Mould Expo
The 2008 China (Hangzhou) International Industrial Fair (formerly “Zhejiang International Industrial Fair”) was originated in 2002, it is held at Hangzhou Peace International Exhibition and Conference Center every May. It has experienced six years of persistent, healthy and stable development. It was listed in the formal exhibition of “China Hangzhou West Lake Expo” in 2006, becoming a large exhibition and conference project specially supported by the municipal government of Hangzhou.

Trade leads, or business leads, by national or international business services facilitate different functions, reduce transaction time and costs, reduce supplier costs, generate new business contacts, and increase sales. With the explosive growth of the internet today, importers look for import trading leads globally for quality products, and exporters look for global export trade leads to sell their products. International trade leads come around quite frequently and in most cases, instantly.

In this age of anytime, anywhere communication, import export trade leads are made easy to find with a host of online business services offering international trade leads. Post a request for import or export trade leads and interested business parties can instantly view it around the world. When a potential business partner expresses interest in doing business with you, the interest is immediately communicated to you in the form of an email or an SMS message. The time needed to make contacts with business people around the world is reduced to less than ten minutes. All it takes is ten minutes to get a new contact, but as in all business, trust is earned only with a lifetime of effort.

Basically trade leads, import trade leads, export trade leads, and international trade leads are simple advertisements with buying or selling offers for products or services. Before the advent of the internet, trade leads took much more time to find due to tasks such as frequent visits to the Chambers of Commerce, Export/Import regulations and promotion agencies of different countries, brainstorming sessions, postal newsletters, and advertising in business publications. It is also very hard to ensure that the advertisement or offer reaches the potential buyer or seller due to the limited reach of trade publications.

The lightning fast import export trade and turnarounds of international trade leads does not ignore business practices. In fact, an online search can be used to find out what others have to say about a specific import or export business. In short, you do not have to rely solely on the company’s profile listing on a bulletin board or the marketing material on their website.

It is not only sellers that post online trade leads. Buyers too benefit from posting their ads because sellers will be looking for pre-qualified buyers. If the buying offer of a company or an enterprise meets the products or services of a seller, the chances of a confirmed sale and a long lasting business relationship is almost guaranteed.

The elements of successful international trade lead posting include:

Clarity - clearly state what you offer or what you intend to buy.
Brevity - use enough words to describe the products.
Be informative - clearly state the terms of the sale, shipping and the present location of the products or the destination if you are the buyer.
Links to your product page - provide links to your website where interested buyers or sellers can learn more about the trade lead.

Having taken the right steps, international business leads can come effortlessly. With one or more business websites and listings at a professional international business service portal, finding trade leads has just been made easier.

As a board member in an international shipping company, I can tell you that boxes and packaging are more complicated than you might at first think. When many people think about boxes and packaging, they think first about the type of containers that are most common.

I do not know off hand how high a percentage of the goods sent by mail are sent in plain cardboard boxes, but I know it is in the 80s or 90s. Things like books, clothing, and even comparatively fragile items like dishes are often sent with standard packaging and boxes. They are simply wrapped in bubble wrap and put into a box filled with Styrofoam peanuts. Then whoever has sent them sits back and simply hopes for the best.

There are, however, much more expensive and high-tech choices for boxes and packaging that are sometimes used for special orders. From my experience, I would say that something like 95 percent of the stuff that is put into sturdy cardboard boxes, wrapped up in the correct way makes it there safe and sound, but for some rare and precious items, 95 percent is simply not enough. For example, if you are sending an antique vase by freight, you will probably want to be completely, 100 percent sure that nothing at all bad can happen to it, no matter what. If that is the case, you will ask for more than cardboard and air bubbles.

Advanced boxes and packaging are often actually not much more complicated than the simple ones. Hard plastic cases, with the proper padding built in, decrease the danger to most shipments to almost nothing. Unless the case is forcibly beaten repeatedly against the wall or run over by a truck several times, it is quite unlikely that anything at all could even possibly happen to what is inside. Usually, when we are asked to box and package an antique, or something else equally valuable, we build a custom case for it out of plastic before we send it out. In 23 years, we have only had one failure with this approach.

Then again, there are certain items that need even more sophisticated boxes and packaging. For example, if something is extremely temperature sensitive, the boxes and packaging must include a means to regulate the temperature, which is extremely costly and difficult to make. Only a few companies handle orders of this kind, but we have stayed away from them.

There has been increasing concern in recent years about the spread of pests, such as the Asian longhorn beetle and the Pine Wood Nematode, since wood packaging material made of unprocessed raw wood provides a pathway for the introduction and spread of such pests.

In order to protect worldwide stocks of trees and forests, the International Plant Protection Committee (IPPC) has taken regulatory action to control the global movement of wooden packaging in the form of ISPM15.

Will it Affect Me?
If you export wooden packaging that contains sawn timber, such as new or second-hand pallets, boxes, crates, cable drums etc. outside the or into the EU you will be affected by these new regulations.

Packaging that is made solely from manufactured board like plywood, OSB, chipboard etc. is exempt.

The new regulations will apply to all arrivals at destination ports, airports etc. This means that all shipments will need to be treated approximately eight weeks before despatch, depending on transit times.

How can I Comply?
The approved measures that have been adopted are as follows:

Heat treatment of wood packaging, which requires heating of the timber to a minimum core temperature of 56C for a minimum of 30 minutes (HT).
or
Fumigation, using Methyl Bromide (MB) to the relevant specification.

In order to join to scheme, manufacturers need to demonstrate that they meet the requirements to a third party assessor. Registered manufacturers are authorised to use to ISPM15 mark, which includes the country of origin and a unique manufacturer’s registration number

I need more information, where can I find it?

Note this information is provided as a guide only. Individual country implementation dates may change without notice and it is the responsibility of the exporter to comply with importing country requirements at the time of export.

United States
As of 5 July 2006, imports must comply with requirements of ISPM No. 15 or be subject to removal from the importing country. Additional information is available at: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppq/wpm/import.html

European Union
Directive 2004/102/EC, which entered into force on 1 March 2005, requires the following measures to be taken for wood packaging material and dunnage entering the EU from all countries:

The wood must be either heat treated or fumigated with methyl bromide, in line with ISPM15 procedures.

The wood must be officially marked with the ISPM15 stamp.

From 1 January 2009, all wood packaging material imported into the EU must be debarked. Dunnage must meet the same criteria as wood packaging material. However, it is exempted until the end of 2007 if it is made of wood free from bark, pests and signs of live pests. Additional information is available at: http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/plant/index_en.htm.

United Kingdom
The Forestry Commission are the UK’s representative on the IPPC.
http://www.forestry.gov.uk/planthealth

Rowlinson Packaging were the first wooden case maker in the UK to buy and install a heat chamber, specifically designed for heat treatment.

This allows them to treat either timber or finished cases and pallets from their site at Wardle in Cheshire, in the most cost effective manner.

The treatment (HT and MB) lasts for life, so there is no need to re-treat for returnable packaging.

Whether you chose to move overseas for business or pleasure, you most likely left some friends and/or family behind. As an expat you realize the importance of companies who provide quality services for those of us living overseas. Some quality companies will find you but others you may have to seek out for yourself.

Expats have several options for cheap overseas phone calls. One of the most popular is using an overseas pre paid phone card. The obvious advantages of using a phone card overseas is not having to pay the very expensive rates that you would normally have to pay if you made an international call with your home phone. Most companies who provide these low rate calling cards provide an overseas calling plan with a broad span of countries including Germany, Iraq, Kuwait, Guam, Korea and many others.

The best place to search for a cheap prepaid phone card that you can use overseas is the Internet. With hundreds of companies competing for the lowest rates it is not hard to find one that provides you with a way to make cheap calls overseas. When you are searching for your overseas calling plan be sure to find one that provides a good service. Too many expats go for the big names without searching for the best rates. Just because you think one company is the best calling card company out there does not mean that they provide the cheapest pre paid overseas phone cards. Different companies have different plans. The calling card plan that is best for you may be a big name but it could very well be from a company that you have never heard of as well.

The biggest thing to hit the communication industry since the home phone is the world famous cell phone AKA mobile or handy in Germany. Can you use a international prepaid calling card on your cell phone? You most certainly can. When you find overseas calling plan that is right for you, the company should provide you with international access numbers that you can use to access the plan through your cellular phone. These plans are usually cell phone friendly and do not charge you any extra money for use on a mobile phone.

Hopefully you found this article useful in your search for cheap prepaid phone cards while overseas. Be sure to use this information as a guideline and there is no doubt that you will be calling your friends and family overseas for just pennies a minute.