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Oil country tubular goods (OCTG) are hollow steel products of circular cross-section used in the oil and gas industry for exploration and production activities. OCTG encompasses mainly three types of products which include drill pipe, casing, and tubing. OCTG can be produced as seamless or welded tubes and pipes. The OCTG manufacturers can generally either produce seamless or welded OCTG products and not both, as the capital investment to manufacture seamless OCTG is ten to twenty times higher than the investment required to manufacture welded OCTG. At the same time, API specifications for most grades of casing and tubing stipulate that either welded or seamless construction is acceptable for end-use applications. Generally, welded pipe producers entering the OCTG market concentrate on producing line pipe and in some cases, some low grades of API casing.

The flavors and fragrances (F&F) market is part of a larger market which supplies a variety of ingredients and components that consumer product manufacturers utilize in their products. The broader market includes large multinational companies and smaller regional and local participants which supply products such as seasonings, texturizers, spices, enzymes, fortified products and cosmetic ingredients. The companies in F&F market are targeting their activities towards highly populated and rapidly expanding regions of the world like Asia Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa. North America constituted the largest market for flavors and fragrances followed by Asia-Pacific, Western Europe and South America. It is projected that Asia-Pacific will gradually overtake North America due to the much faster growth anticipated for this region.

In 2007-2013, the risk guarantee offered by China's agricultural insurance rose from RMB112.6 billion to RMB1.4 trillion; a total of RMB76 billion was paid to 143 million peasant households as compensation. In 2013, China recorded agricultural insurance premium income of RMB30.66 billion and paid RMB20.86 billion to 31.77 million affected farmers; 1.1 billion mu of main crops were covered (mu, Chinese unit of area, 1 mu = 1/15 of a hectare), accounting for 45% of the country's main crops sowing area.

ITO (indium tin oxide) sputtering targets are one of the core and critical materials in electronic information area, mainly for the manufacture of flat panel liquid crystal displays, touch panel, thin film transistors, solar cells, transparent electrodes and multifunction glass.

The Chinese tire mold industry prosperity rose again in 2013, with annual sales approximating RMB3.565 billion, up 18.44% YoY, mainly because domestic tire companies successively proposed and expanded tire projects against a sharp decline of rubber prices in 2013, which pulled the tire mold demand.

Despite world-wide economic downturn and great changes in exchange rate, benefiting from robust market demand, global monoclonal antibody market size exceeded USD 80 billion in 2013, still one of biotech drugs with the fastest CAGR in recent years.

Dissolving pulp refers to the pulp with cellulose content above 90%, mainly including wood pulp, bamboo pulp and cotton pulp (dissolving pulp in this report just involve wood and bamboo pulps), and finding application mainly in viscose fiber downstream.

China is the world's largest production base of vitamins, with vitamin C and vitamin E as its most important products, wherein vitamin C and related products account for more than 60% of its total output and vitamin E takes up about 30%. Since 2009, influenced by the sluggish external demand and declining prices, China's output of vitamin products has been declining sharply. In 2013, the output of various types of vitamin products in China was about 201,000 tons, down 7.4% YoY.

As the world's major heparin API producer and exporter, China boasts enormous raw materials, which provides a strong support for the production of China's heparin products. In 2013, the live pigs raised in China could manufacture 27.9 trillion units of heparin crude products. And in H1 2014, the live hogs in China may produce 14.09 trillion units of heparin crude products, up 5.6% on a year-on-year basis.

In 2013-2014, China education and training industry is characterized as follows: