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The year of 2010 has been the best year for wafer foundry industry since 2000. It is expected that the output value of wafer foundry industry will reach USD27.6 billion, up 37.8% year-on-year. In addition, the output value of the entire semiconductor industry is projected to achieve USD274.5 billion, rising 21.5% year-on-year.

The end of June 2010 saw a total of 106 securities companies and 160, 000 employees in Chinese securities industry. In regard to regional distribution, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong possess the largest quantity of securities companies by 17, 14 and 23, respectively, a share of altogether 50.5%, followed by Jiangsu, Sichuan, Fujian, etc.

The rapid development of Chinese automotive market has sped up the evolution of automotive navigation in China in recent years. It is expected that the car navigation market size of China will reach nearly 5.7 million sets in 2010.

Fertilizer and pesticide are significant basic substances of agricultural production and closely related to the development of agriculture. Supported by domestic market demand and national policy, China’s fertilizer and pesticide industry has developed rapidly in recent years, making China the world’s major producer and exporter of fertilizer and pesticide.

Before 2009, the global ethylene capacity had mostly been concentrated in developed countries such the United States and European countries, while recent years have seen soaring capacity in Asia and the Middle East. In 2009 and 2010, the newly-increased capacity in Asia was 1.8 million tons and 7.29 million tons respectively, while they were 5.22 million tons and 1.6 million tons in the Middle East. The rapid capacity expansion in the Middle East will exert considerable influence on China’s ethylene market. In 2009, the global ethylene capacity reached 137 million tons, and it is expected to realize 145 million tons in 2010.

In the first half of 2010, China’s electronic information industry maintained the rebound trend beginning in the second half of 2009, the production was developing fast, but the growth rate dropped slightly, and the growth rate of export had not fully recovered to the level before the financial crisis.

Portable medical electronic devices can be mainly divided into home type and professional type, of which, the former covers electronic sphygmomanometer, electronic blood glucose meter, electronic hearing aids, etc., and the latter includes portable electrocardiograph, portable multi-parameter monitor, portable ultrasonic tester, etc.

High voltage switchgears are a type of primary equipment in power transmission and distribution, functioning as a protective mastery of power transmission and distribution and taking around 6% of total grid investment in China. The rated voltage of high voltage switchgears is usually divided into high voltage (126-252kV), super high voltage (363-800kV), and ultra high voltage (1100kV). High-voltage switchgear mainly includes CB, GIS, H-GIS, DS, ES and load switches.

China’s plastic and plastic products industry continued to show an upward trend in the first half of 2010. The output of plastic and synthetic resin reached 21.07 million tons, up 23.21% year-on-year. The industrial profit amounted to RMB8.04 billion, up 54% year-on-year. The output of plastic products was 25.76 million tons, up 21.11% year-on-year. The total industrial profit amounted to RMB22 billion, up 55% year-on-year.

Benefitting from the rapid development of the Internet, online shopping has become more and more popular among consumers, with the share in China’s total retail sales of social consumer goods increasing from 0.24% in 2005 to 3% in H1 2010, and the trading volume growing at a CAGR of 97% during 2005-2010.