Continuing the development of market economy while at the same time empowering the supervised government to properly oversee local economic operations are the two significant challenges that face China today.

The financial crisis has fundamentally changed the balance of power between suppliers and buyers of flat panel displays across the Taiwan Strait: suppliers in Taiwan are being forced to make concessions to buyers in Mainland China. But the buyers - TV manufacturers - have some fresh ideas.

Fueled by Beijing’s policies to maintain the economic growth, the public investment boom across China raises risks in increasing non-performing assets at local commercial banks, making a strong case for caution.

The current industrial reshuffle offers a golden opportunity for top-notch players in the private equity game to seek out good investment openings.

Such an expectation is not reasonable, either in the context of China’s market size or the performance of its domestic carmakers.

As an emerging force in China’s PC market, netbook is expected to continue processing high end growth in 2009.

While 3G licenses have already been issued in China, it is only if three key issues are addressed that there is any possibility of implementing a new, profitable model for the Chinese 3G market.

Amid a global economic crisis, Chinese manufacturers are racing to seize the commanding height in the battle to dominate the flat panel display market.

The Chinese government’s “Home Appliances to the Countryside” project will actually benefit the appliance industry more than farmers. But, those benefits, if they ever come, will take a lot of patience.

The time, when the production capacity shortage of upstream flat screen suppliers was determining the development of China’s LCD TV market, passed.