Over the last few days I've been collecting articles on telecommunications in China and on Guangdong, in particular.
Today's article from China, "Presidents confer by phone on South Asia," is a good starting point:
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CHINESE President Jiang Zemin has exchanged opinions with his US counterpart Bill Clinton on bilateral relations and the situation in South Asia over a direct telephone line.
It was the first direct-telephone talk between the two presidents since the establishment of the hotline between the Chinese and the United States governments.
The two presidents discussed the current tense situation in South Asia and held that the international community should make concerted efforts for the peace, security and stability of the region and for the realization of the goal of keeping it free of nuclear weapons.
Clinton said he is looking forward to meeting again with President Jiang in Beijing in his coming first state visit to China and stressed that a closer US-China relationship would not only serve the peoples of the two countries, but also produce a positive impact on the development of the international situation.
Jiang recalled his state visit to the US in October last year and said the consensus reached between him and Clinton in Washington is being implemented step by step.
The exchanges and co-operation between China and the United States in a wide range of fields have witnessed new progress and the two countries have conducted effective consultations and collaboration on a series of major international issues, Jiang said, adding that Sino-US relations are facing favourable opportunities of development.
Jiang said he is expecting Clinton's visit to China to be a complete success.
(Xinhua)
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Date: 06/01/98
Author:
China Daily>>>
NN's contract with Guangdong:
newbridge.com
How China is financing telecommunications' upgrades:
chinadaily.net
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NEC sells optic fibre equipment
CHINA Telecom signed a 1.7 billion Japanese yen (US$13.07 million) contract with Nippon Electric Corp (NEC) on Friday to purchase digital optic fibre transmission equipment for the relay stations along the 4,000-kilometre Hohhot-Beihai trunk line.
China Instrument Import and Export Corp served as the trading agent for China Telecom, and Marubeni Corp handled the affairs for NEC.
With a capacity of 128,000-plus individual digital communication lines, the batch of equipment, known as "2.5 Giga-bits/Second Synchronous Digital Hierarchy," will be delivered in July.
The optical fibre cable artery, the longest in terms of its distance, is due to start operation at the beginning of 1999.
The political divisions to be covered are the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Shanxi, Henan, Hubei and Hunan provinces, and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
The total investment in the project, including civil engineering work and the cost of equipment and facilities, is expected to exceed 1 billion yuan (US$120 million).
The investment money comes from part of a second package of US$200 million loans that the Asian Development Bank extended to China's telecommunication infrastructure construction.
"I hope NEC Corp will be able to guarantee the quality of products and provide after-sales service according to the agreement," said Pei Aihua, vice-director-general of China Telecom, which has been operating under the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.
Foreign telecommunications and computer-related equipment manufacturers are coveting the Chinese market and hope to invest 150 billion yuan (US$18 billion) within three years to prop up its fledgling information technology industry.
One-third of the investment will be poured into building mobile communication facilities.
The rest will be used in the expansion of an optical cable communication network across the country and the establishment of data communication systems to be applied in such sectors as banking and stock transactions.
Besides bank loans, a large fraction of the funds for construction will come from the stock market.
Last October, China Telecom issued shares on the New York and Hong Kong stock exchanges, raising US$4.2 billion.
In the past few years, such international electrical equipment suppliers as Siemens, Ericsson, GPT and Nortel have won in intense bidding for a number of optical fibre-laying projects in China.
China is considering importing more advanced equipment to upgrade its telecommunication systems to fuel its fast-growing economy.
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Date: 03/30/98
Author: Shen Bin
China Daily
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Siemens' press:
siemens.de
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Munich, May 26, 1998
Siemens forms telecommunications joint venture in China
The Siemens Public Communication Networks Group and the Chinese Ministry of Information and Industry set up another telecommunications joint venture in Beijing today. The new company, Siemens Communications Systems Ltd. (SCSC), will develop, manufacture and market "last mile" products for telecommunications networks. The primary focus will be on systems using fiber-optic and radio technology. The new company is expected to achieve sales of roughly DM470 million within three years.
Siemens has a 50% stake in the new company, which is domiciled in Chengdu in the province of Sichuan. The other partners in the joint venture are Chengdu Posts and Telecommunication Equipment Factory and Chengdu Telecommunications Cable Co. Ltd., both state-owned telecommunications companies. The three partners are to invest roughly DM50 million in starting up the new joint venture, which will create some 700 jobs. SCSC is Siemens' Public Communication Networks Group's sixth joint venture in China. The others are in the areas of mobile telephony, cable, switching and transmission technology.
The Chinese market for telecommunications infrastructure systems is one of the world's largest growth markets. China's telephone network is expanding at a rate of more than 20 million line units a year.>>>>
URL list for China Daily:
chinadaily.net
chinadaily.net
China Telecom goes multimedia:
chinadaily.net
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CHINA Telecom, the country's biggest telecommunications operator, will fully tap the network-based information industry by developing a nationwide public multimedia network in May this year, according to a senior industry official.
The network will provide a series of physical platforms, including a domestic information service platform, and bearing platforms of ISP (Internet service providers) and broadband services.
Leng Rongquan, deputy director-general of China Telecom, said that the public multimedia network, which has been basically completed, will formally become operational across the country on May 17.
"The network, based on Internet and Intranet, provides a huge platform space for the public to set up home pages and seek business opportunities," said Leng.
By the end of 1997, the multimedia network of China Telecom had covered 24 provinces. The current application systems include real-time bill checking for telecom subscribers, electronic taxation, and on-line services of real time securities exchange, home banking and transaction.
In an effort to seek powerful technological support for the public multimedia network, China Telecom made a number of co-operation commitments with IBM last week.
The two sides will co-develop a comprehensive solution to electronic business in accordance with China's practices, an effective management system of telecommunications operation and related technologies concerning network-based services.
The co-operation on electronic-business also took place last week when IBM signed an agreement with the Hunan branch of China Telecom to develop an electronic system.
The Guangdong branch became the country's first E-business operator last December by developing a payment system for electronic commerce providers.
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Date: 04/22/98
Author: Wang Chuandong
China Daily>>>
US-Sino military ties, June 2, 1998:
chinadaily.net
Science and Technology conference currently in progress:
chinadaily.net
Statistics on Quangdong:
chinapages.com
chinapages.com
chinapages.com
The statistics appear to be from 1995 so if anyone has a link to more current information, please post.
Miscellaneous:
china-tradenet.com |
