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Global piano industry, which originated from Europe in the 18th century, has begun to shift to China since the late 1990s. At present, China has been the world's largest piano producer, with the output for 2013 hitting 376,000 units, making up 79.6% of the global total.

Refractory material is one of the indispensible materials in such high-temperature industries as iron and steel, building materials, chemicals, nonferrous metals, etc. Over 70% of refractory materials worldwide are applied in iron and steel smelting, 17% in building material industry and 4% in chemical industry.

Thanks to its huge automobile market base, China's demand for automotive rubber hose is enormous, totaling 460 million meters and equaling RMB 17.4 billion in market scale in 2013. As automobile industry develops further, the demand for automotive rubber hose will maintain a steady growth trend, with demand expected to reach 640 million meters and market size at RMB 24.1 billion.

Global and China Automotive Lighting Industry Report, 2013-2014 covers the followings:

The Chinese online education market attracted the inrush of huge capital in 2013-2014, as Internet firms, offline education training institutions, investment companies and startups continued their expansion in online education. In 2014, China online education industry is characterized as follows:

In 2013, the sales volume of global electric vehicles reached 228,000 vehicles, including 95,000 PHEVs and 133,000 BEVs. With the further promotion of electric vehicles globally, the sales volume will rise to 700,000 vehicles by 2016.

Chemical reagent, purified from industrial chemicals, serves chiefly scientific experiment and detection analysis, and finds massive application in electronic information, medicine, food, aerospace and military industry manufacturing.

The sales volume of bi-metal band saw blade continued to slide in China, totaling 49.45 million meters throughout the year 2013, down 2.5% year on year, largely due to international financial crisis, a drop in domestic Manufacturing Sentiment Index and a decline in the output of supporting sawing machine. Despite falling sales volume, the scope of decline narrowed, compared with year-on-year contraction of 5.2% in 2012.

Source Market Insights; GCC provides an overview of the Gulf Cooperation Council outbound market, analyzing market data and providing insights. This report provides a better understanding of the number of GCC tourists going abroad, their spending habits and main destination markets.

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