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At the end of 2009, ATM population in Chinese market rose to 244,700 sets from 192,000 sets in 2008, of which there were 214,900 sets of networking ATM incorporated in China UnionPay.

There are only ten rechargeable lithium battery cell manufacturers all over the world. A large proportion of Japanese manufacturers are engaged in the production of laptop battery cells, while South Korean and Chinese manufacturers mainly focus on producing battery cells for cell phone and other portable electronic appliances, the unit prices of which are far lower than laptop battery cell’s. Therefore, Japanese manufacturers have smaller rechargeable lithium battery cell shipment but higher unit prices, as compared with South Korean and Chinese manufacturers.

China boasts rich tungsten resources with 60% of the world’s tungsten reserves. Its output of tungsten concentrate, APT, tungsten powder, tungsten carbide, and tungsten filament as well as its tungsten trade volume ranked first in the world in 2009. As tungsten is a strategic resource, China has implemented the quota of total tungsten exploitation amount since 2002 to restrict the exploitation of tungsten. The quota of total exploitation amount of tungsten concentrate (65% WO3) is 80,000 tons in 2010, which is 11,445 tons or 16.69% more than the 68,555 tons in 2009.

It is in the year of 2009 that Chinese liquor industry witnessed most significant growth, with the output of liquor peaking 7,069,300 kiloliters ever since 2006, up 23.8% from a year earlier. The output of liquor continued to grow and rose 29.4% YoY to 4, 125, 000 kiloliters in China in the first half of 2010. In July, the output of liquor increased to 563, 000 kiloliters, a 6% YoY rise, but with a sharp drop in the growth rate against the same period of last year mainly because the growth rate for the liquor output in Shandong and Henan was gearing down.

Titanium, an important strategic metal, has many advantages such as high specific strength, corrosion resistance, biocompatibility and non-magnetic. Global consumption of titanium products is mainly concentrated in countries and regions like the United States, Europe, China and Japan. In developed countries and regions such as the United States, Europe and Japan, titanium is mainly applied in the aviation and aerospace field, making up about 60%; while in China, it is mainly used in sectors including chemical industry, pharmaceutical and metallurgy, covering around 70%.

2009 is a very important year for China’s IT industry, particularly the computer software industry, the development of which was promoted by a series of newly released policies: Electronic Information Industry Restructuring and Revitalization Planning charted directions for the industry, and local support policies followed suit; Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) provided a new financing platform for software companies; Basic Norms of Internal Control for Enterprises was implemented by medium and large enterprises, so that IT management and governance became an essential approach and objective of enterprise management, which would directly promote the development of enterprise IT management software.

Currently, the technology and production of carbon fiber worldwide is still under the control of Japan and the USA owing to the complicated production process, high technical content, and the politically restricted introduction of technologies and equipment. There are now less than 20 countries and regions that can realize the industrialization of carbon fiber and no more than 12 enterprises that are capable of mass-production around the globe. Toray (Japan), Toho Tenax (Japan), Zoltek (USA), and Mitsubishi Rayon (Japan) rank the global Top 4 manufacturers by the capacity of carbon fiber, accounting for 23.4%, 17.1%, 14.3% and 10.3% respectively of the global total capacity, while Chinese enterprises occupy only 4.3%.

In PCB industry in 2009, the output value of flexible printed circuit board (FPC) dropped least in percentage, mainly due to a bit fall in FPC market. Entering 2010, FPC industry grows further, which is driven by the demand from smart phones, e-books, LED panels and notebook computers. Actually, any thin and small electronic product has strong demand for FPC.

Coal chemical industry is a sector with coal as the raw material which gets transformed to gas, liquid, solid fuel and chemicals through chemical processing, producing a wide range of chemical products. Coal chemical industry falls into traditional coal chemical industry and new coal chemical industry; wherein, the former consists of coal coking, coal calcium carbide, coal synthesis ammonia (fertilizer), etc, while the latter is comprised of Coal-to-Olefin, SNG, Coal-Ethylene Glycol, Coal-to-Liquids, etc.

Synthetic fiber is a kind of linear organic macromolecular compound produced from addition polymerization or condensation polymerization with small molecular organic compounds as the raw materials. In terms of the main chain structure, synthetic fiber can generally fall into terylene, acrylic fiber, nylon, vinylon, spandex, polypropylene, etc.