Research and Development

Chinese carmakers still stuck in slow lane on R&D

11 Apr 2013

Brilliance Auto - one of the most profitable Chinese carmakers and a joint-venture partner with BMW - invested just five million yuan (HK$6.27 million), or 60 yuan per vehicle, to develop its own...

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China's Geely and Sweden's Volvo to join hands on vehicle research work

21 Feb 2013

Geely is to build a research centre with Volvo Cars in Volvo's home country, Sweden, the first time a mainland carmaker has moved its research and development work overseas.

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China Digest, November 29, 2012

29 Nov 2012

The Beijing Institute of Technology has received 1.2 billion yuan (HK$1.48 billion) to build a large centre for the research and development of defence technologies, and construction began on...

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Nestle to chase Chinese palate

19 Oct 2012

Nestle plans to double the number of its research units in China as the world's largest food group chases double-digit growth in the world's most populated country.

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60pc of new products fail to reach market

5 Nov 2010

About six out of 10 new products on the mainland never reach the marketplace even if they have already reached the final development stage, according to research by Nielsen.

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Central Market site unlikely to go to developers

8 Oct 2009

The Central Market site, estimated to be worth HK$6.7 billion, is expected to be taken off the land application list, for conservation, when Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen announces his...

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

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Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

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Novartis to boost China headcount

Novartis, the world's third-largest pharmaceutical firm by sales, aims to boost its mainland research and development team tenfold in four years to facilitate a new centre in Shanghai.

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Beijing lays out road map for scientific revolution

Beijing yesterday outlined an ambitious plan to close the gap with developed countries and transform the nation into a leading technological power.

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High risks for local projects

Output from outside production hubs seen as being in greater danger of failure

Automobile projects spearheaded by local governments outside regional production hubs face a higher...

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The inexact science of becoming a hi-tech power

China has ambitions to become a major centre of basic science in the 21st century. What are its chances of success? Pretty good, actually.

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Research projects get $56m backing

THE Government has provided through its funding schemes more than $56 million for 15 projects to promote technological upgrading in the manufacturing sector.

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R & D tax-break scheme in balance

AUSTRALIAN regulators are scrambling for cover after discovering that the country's A$2 billion (about HK$11.1 billion) research and development (R & D) syndication industry is at risk because...

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