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Friday, February 4th, 2011Research and Markets: How To Become a Better Mentor To Your Post Docs
Sunday, January 23rd, 2011Mystery bird: Harris’s hawk, Parabuteo unicinctus
This North American bird is so amazing that I often think that the behaviours of the Velociraptors of “Jurassic Park” fame were modeled after them Harris’s hawk, Parabuteo unicinctus , also known as the Harris hawk, bay-winged hawk or dusky hawk, photographed at Saguaro National Park , Tucson, Arizona, USA. Image: Terry Sohl , 10 December 2010 [ velociraptorize ]. Canon 50D, 400 5.6L. Question …
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IODA Africa Launches to Bring Local, Sub-Saharan African Music to Fans Throughout the Continent and Around the World
CANNES, FRANCE–(Marketwire – 01/23/11) – IODA , the global leader in digital distribution, marketing, and technology solutions for the independent music industry, today announces the launch of IODA Africa, the first global, digital music distribution network in Sub-Saharan Africa. The launch of IODA Africa marks an important milestone for IODA’s growing international presence, its collaboration …
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Today’s mystery bird for you to identify
This lovely African mystery bird is the member of the same family as another bird that is fairly common throughout much of the world. Mystery Bird photographed at Ngorongoro crater , Ngorongoro Conservation Area , Tanzania, Africa. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours] Image: Dan Logen, 23 January 2010 [ velociraptorize ]. Nikon D2X, 600 mm lens with 1.4 extender, f/6.3, 1/750 sec ISO …
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Today’s mystery bird for you to identify
Here’s another bird at that same Houston backyard bird feeder … what species is this? Mystery Bird photographed in a backyard in Houston , Texas, USA. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours] Image: Joseph Kennedy, 8 January 2011 [ velociraptorize ]. Nikon D200 ,Kowa 883 telescope with TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/640s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400 Here’s another bird at that same backyard bird …
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Research and Markets: How To Become a Better Mentor To Your Post Docs
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Monday, January 3rd, 2011Research Report of Chinese Papermaking Industry Chains, 2009
Monday, October 25th, 2010With the growth rate exceeding 10% for successive years, China has substituted America and been the biggest paper making country in the world. In 2008, the yields of the paper and paperboard in China went beyond 83 million tons. However, with the outbreak of international financial crisis in 2008, Chinese papermaking market was depressed. The prices of the products and raw materials were cut down as well as the profits decline for the papermaking enterprises. Meanwhile, many enterprises all made a full preparation for cutting down the prices. Therefore, December 2008 had been the lowest profit level for Chinese papermaking industry.
Chinese papermaking enterprises are making structural adjustment to expand the sales volumes and guarantee the steady achievement growth by improving the self market shares under the circumstances of the whole recession. Many enterprises cut down their storage by reduction in the yields in the previous period, promotion in low price, cut-down of the yield capacity utility rate and growth of the new uses. It can be said that the storage problem perplex the enterprises had been solved effectively. The statistics showed the supply and demand balance in December 2008.
In the first quarter of 2009, the storage volumes of Chinese papermaking industry had been basically cut down to the normal scope. The storage volumes in the major paper enterprises were reduced obviously. From the present situation, many dealers also hold that the price has been the low level in the short period and the purchase for the storage paper are increased. Meanwhile, the operation rate of the papermaking enterprises is up as well as the link relative ratio up in the sales in the first quarter with the yields and sales balances. With the run-up of the storage raw materials, the worst time will be passed. Some statistics showed that after the prices of the major paper varieties reached to the low point, the prices of the white card paper and the bond paper were all increased in January 2009 and other varieties held the line. With the price reduction in the raw materials, the profits of the paper products would be rebounded.
Chinese paper market is comparative sealed, which determines the demands affected by the domestic economy. In the future, the economic growth will focus on the investment driving and the reduction in the unit paper consumption. Under the estimation of the GDP up by 8% and the actual demands for the unit paper consumption down by 40 tons per hundred million Yuan, the expected demands for the paper will be increased by 5.6% in 2009 and probably 9% in 2010, which can fully prove the papermaking industry is in the rising prosperity.
In 2008, the export volumes of Chinese papermaking industry totaled 4 million tons, decreased compared with the 4.61 tons in 2007. Because the exports of Chinese papermaking industry majored in the bond paper with high added value, yet the domestic enterprises have few advantages in the bond paper. Besides, the consumption in the international market was recessed because of the international financial crisis in 2008. So, the export decline in Chinese papermaking industry was a foregone conclusion.
Chinese papermaking industry and paper product industry are characterized as the resource-intensive and capital-intensive. The beneficial regions have the abundant resources and sufficient capitals, the major provinces concentrating in East China and Central and South areas involved the papermaking provinces of Shandong, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Henan, Zhejiang and Fujian etc. These regions have been the gathering areas of Chinese papermaking industry and the paper product industry as well as the outstanding enterprises and foreign funded enterprises. For the policies, Chinese government approved Adjustment and Revitalization Plan of Light Industry in February 2009, enhancing the confidences in Chinese papermaking industry.
The biggest highlight of Adjustment and Revitalization Plan of Light Industry is to ease the domestic yield capacity surplus by encouraging the export. The concrete measures conclude improving the export tax rebate properly, recovering the waste paper processing trade, intensifying the replacement of the backward yield capacity and setting up the state and regional product and raw material reserves etc. .
From May 2009, China begins to carry out new environmental standards, including the speed-up of the backward yield capacity replacement. It is predicted the cultural paper industry sparsely distributed will be obviously benefited. The expected paper perspectives will develop along low quality cultural paper, medium and high quality cultural paper and newsprint paper, forming the cultural paper initially breaking through the bottom recession.
For the demands, the demand growth of Chinese paper products is closely related to the gross domestic product, the growth speed keeping the pace with the growth of GDP or higher. At present, the average paper product consumption volumes per capita is only equal to 20% in the developed countries. There is a huge growth space in the future. At present, the paper consumption in China is in the increasing period as well as the cultural paper and household paper etc. From medium and long run, China is in the product paper packaging. The annual growth speed of the packing paper will keep at 10%.
The author wrote this report by investigation into Chinese papermaking industry and the enterprises with the purposes of providing some favorable references to the investors who are willing to enter Chinese papermaking industry and the related industries at home and abroad.
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Latest Market Research on Chinese Cold-chain Logistic Industry
Friday, September 24th, 2010www.shcri.com – Chinese cold-chain logistic industry is still in the immature stage of development. Predictably, only 15% the products demanding for temperature-controlled treatment are handled in the right way in China. Consequently, a large quantity of food and fruit suffer losses. The regional cold-chain logistic system is developing in some large cities in China. Nevertheless, in those second-tier cities, the development presents slow progress.
However, the cold-chain logistics is not really cold. The demand in Chinese cold-chain logistic industry is in successive growth. It is rate of 24% to meet the rising demand from the domestic consumption market and the food export market. There is also consecutive news of oversea giants advancing into Chinese cold reported that Chinese public frozen storage facilities will increase with an annual growth -chain logistic market.
In the short term, the opportunity of the cold-chain logistic industry lies in large cities and major coastal cities of China. Nevertheless, in the long run, it is believed that the opportunities will cover the whole country. In general, there is great potential in Chinese cold-chain logistic industry.
One of our clients, a leading logistics player, ordered the Research Report of Chinese Cold-chain Logistic Industry, 2009. The client found it necessary for him to read this report to understand the development situation and opportunities of Chinese cold-chain logistic industry.
This report mainly focuses on
1. Present Development Situations of Chinese Cold-chain Logistic Industry
2. Compositions of Chinese Cold-chain Logistic Industry Chains
3. Factors Affecting the Development of Chinese Cold-chain Logistic Industry
4. Prediction on the Perspectives of Chinese Cold-chain Logistic Market
5. Investment Opportunities of Chinese Cold-chain Logistic Industry
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Research Report on Chinese Polyester Chain Industry in 2009
Sunday, September 12th, 2010Polyester fibers can be divided into filaments and staple fibers. Filaments account for about 62% of polyester fibers and staple fibers account for about 38%. Usually filaments are used by textile enterprises and staple fibers are mixed with cotton. Polyester fibers and cotton yarns compete with each other in the textile industry. They generally occupy 60% and 30%-35% of the textile raw materials respectively.
Besides, since PET is retrievable and easily modified, its application on non-fiber through modifying its characteristic is more and more popular. Now it is broadly applied in the packaging industry, electronic apparatus, health and medical care, architecture, automobiles, etc. And among them, packaging industry is the largest non – fiber market and the fastest growing field for PET. In recent years, the market demands for sodas, mineral spring water, tea drinks and edible oil keep increasing forcefully, which enlarges the market demand for the global PET bottles and PET bottle chips and promotes the rapid development of the global polyester industry.
Judging from the current supply of China’s Polyester products, the expansion of PET products was relatively fast before 2002. Its production growth rates even surpassed 50% in 1997 and 1999, etc. However, after entering 2002, on one hand, the capacity of the early expansion had gradually met the demand of the market; to some extent, the supply had exceeded the demand. On the other hand, there were obvious shortages of raw materials of PX and PTA, etc. These two factors slowed down the output growth of PET products. The growth rates of PET outputs remained about 10% from 2005 to 2007. In 2007, the output of Chinese PET products exceeded 18 million tons.
As the main raw material for PET products, the outputs of PTA also kept increasing rapidly. Especially after 2003, the output growth of China’s PTA products was very high. In 2003 and 2005, the annual growth rates both surpassed 50%. In 2007, the output of China’s PTA products surpassed 10 million tons with the growth rate of near 20%. While the growth rate of PX – upstream products, is relatively stable. After 2003, the growth rate of the production chain of PX products maintained at 15% to 20%. In 2007, the yearly output of PX products was over 3 million tons with the growth rate near about 20%.
In recent years, with the rapid development of the downstream chemical fiber industry and packaging industry, the total demand for polyester products is gradually increasing. The change of apparent demand for PET products is in step with the growth momentum of PET supplies. Except that the growth rates in 1997 and 1999 surpassed 50%, the basic demands before 2002 maintained at 20% to 30%. However, since 2005, the synthetic fiber industry entered the stage of small profits and the early accumulation brought about by the rapid growth of PET products was gradually digested. Thus the growth rate of the apparent demand for PET products slowed down obviously. In 2006 and 2007, although it revived in a small extent compared with 2005, the growth rate only remained at 10%.
Similarly, having been affected by the slowdown of the demand for PET products, the growth rate of the demand for PTA also slowed down apparently. From 2005 to 2007, the demand for PTA products gradually decreased. In 2007, the growth rate of the demand for PTA products reached lower than 5%.
As the primary product of the polyester chain industry, the growth rate of the demand for PX also fluctuated. In addition to being used to produce PTA products, PX products are also used to produce solvent, spice, printing ink, etc. Therefore, its demand is also affected by the development of other products of chemical industry. Generally speaking, since 1996, the growth rate of apparent demand for PX has been keeping at 10% to 20%. In 2005, the depression of chemical industry resulted in its zero growth, but the demand in 2006 and 2007 revived apparently. In 2007, the demand for PX even reached 40%.
As two important raw products in the polyester chain industry, the changes of imports of PTA and PX are quite different. As China’s PTA productivity has gradually released, imports of PTA and its import dependency decrease; bottle neck factors transfer to PX; the lack of domestic supply of PX results in the increasing dependency on imports.
Before 2000, the import growth rate of PTA in China was very high (except in 1997). However after 2004, the growth rate became gentle and even declined in 2007. At the same time, the import dependency of PTA was high after 2000, remaining between 40% and 50%. After 2004, it decreased for 4 consecutive years. And in 2007, it decreased below 40%. That was 36.33%.
The import dependency of PX in China before 2000 was very low, which was below 10%. However, as downstream garment industry and polyester industry developed quickly, the productivity of upstream polyester raw material industry, including PX , didn’t keep the pace. Thus the import dependency of polyester raw material industry, especially of PX climbed high gradually. In 2007, it even reached the highest 48.36%.
The process units of Chinese Polyester raw materials concentrate in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces. There have been PTA production bases in these two provinces. It is estimated that by 2010, domestic PTA productivity will have been 17 million tons per year. And PTA productivity from East China will account for 69% of the whole country, which will match the downstream polyester productivity. It is also estimated from 2009 to 2010, China’s demand for PTA will increase at the rate of 10% yearly, and in 2010, it will reach 17.70 million ton. At that time, the productivity will reach 15.50 million tons and the domestic lack of PTA will decrease to 2 million ton.
As fossil energies concentrates in the upstream of polyester chain industry and textile industry concentrate in downstream, the features of regional distribution have a close relation with the upstream and downstream chain.
Broadly speaking, at present, Chinese Polyester industry mainly scatters in Eastern coastal areas, especially in Yangtze River Delta. The common features of this area are that the textile and garment industry develops quickly and the downstream market of polyester is generally mature. Meanwhile, its overall regional economy ranks in the forefront of the country and the industry within the region develops well, which guarantee capital, equipment and other supporting factors. It’s worth noting that the proportion of every index of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces ranks in the forefront of the country. The sales ratio within the region is high because of large production supplies and consumption demands. It saves the transportation cost and enterprises’ sales cost.
Since polyester raw material production requires high demand of the nearby surroundings, the place where the project is will to some degree influence the competitiveness of enterprises. At present, some foreign PTA and PX projects are in the coastal areas, which is convenient for ocean shipping. As some large–scale projects will be completed and put into production in the future, it is estimated that Chinese Polyester raw materials industry will form three key concentration areas, including Yangtze River Delta, Xiamen and Zhuhai. Among them, Yangtze River Delta will be the core of Chinese Polyester raw materials industry with many large–scale PTA and PX production enterprises, like Mitsubishi, Du Pont, Yangzi Petrochemical, Shanghai Petrochemical, etc. The upstream and downstream industry of PTA and PX industry will also be very mature. Yangzi Petrochemical, Shanghai Petrochemical and Zhenhai Refining & Chemical will provide PTA and PX production with sufficient raw materials. About half of Chins’ chemical fiber production capacity is concentrated in Zhejiang Province. Generally speaking, the investment of polyester raw materials industry is also concentrated in Yangtze River Delta.
By reading this report, readers can gain the following information:
-Current Situation of Chinese Polyester Chain Industry
-Factors that Influence the Development of Chinese Polyester Chain Industry
-Import & Export Status of Chinese Polyester Chain Industry
-Main Enterprises and Operational Status of Chinese Polyester Chain Industry
-Supply & Demand Situation of Chinese Polyester Chain Industry
-Situation of Project Investment in Chinese Polyester Chain Industry
-Introduction of Investment Opportunities in Chinese Polyester Chain Industry
-Prediction on the Development Trend of Chinese Polyester Chain Industry
Following persons are suggested to buy the report:
-Upstream and Downstream Manufacturers of Polyester Chain Industry
-Polyester Chain Products Traders
-Investors of Chinese Polyester Chain Industry
-Potential Invertors of Chinese Polyester Chain Industry
-Institutions Paying Attention to Chinese Polyester Chain Industry
-Import and Export Firms Paying Attention to Chinese Polyester Chain Industry
-Other Persons Paying Attention to Chinese Polyester Chain Industry
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Research Report on China Chain Store & Franchise Industry in 2009
Monday, September 6th, 2010China Chain Store & Franchise industry is in the final link of the whole market system. The circulation of commodities which deals with final consumers has a great advantage. At present, the oversupply market structure improves the status of China Chain Store & Franchise Industry unprecedentedly. By use of good commercial areas, giant chain networks, rapid promotion, China Chain Store & Franchise industry is taking the leadership in the industry chain irreversibly. As the leader of circulation industry, the chain industry will spur the development of upstream industries, especially the industry.
The total volumes of retail sales of consumer goods in China increased from 5.9501 trillion RMB (719.6 billion USD) in 2004 to 10.8488 trillion RMB (1.5498 trillion USD) in 2008, up by 15% and higher than the GDP growth YOY by 5%. Since the beginning of 2004, the total volumes of retail sales of consumer goods in China have increased stably. In a long run, the total volumes of retail sales of consumer goods are always keeping a good increase, which means that the retail market is playing a more and more important role in promoting domestic demands, expanding consumption, promoting economic growth, realizing the scale and industrialization of industry enterprises.
In 2008, the sales volumes of China top 100 chain enterprises reached 1.1999 trillion RMB (171.4 billion USD), up by 18.4% and account for 11% of the total volumes of retail sales of consumer goods in China, remaining the same as that in the previous year. The aggregate number of shops of the top 100 enterprises reached 120,775, rising by 10.6%.
Gome Home Appliances Group stays in the first in China top 100 chain enterprises in successive 3 years with the sales volumes of 104.59 billion RMB (14.94 billion USD), followed by Suning Appliance Group with 102.34 billion RMB, Shanghai Bailian Group with 94.33 billion RMB, China Resources Vanguard Co. Ltd with 63.8 billion RMB and Dalian Dashang Group Co. Ltd with 62.55 billion RMB.
In 2008, the sales volumes of China top 10 chain enterprises reached 579.4 billion RMB (82.77 billion USD), accounting for 48% of the total sales volume of the top 100 chain enterprises. Meanwhile, the proportion in 2005, 2006 and 2007 was 47%, 48% and 50%.
In 2008, the number of direct employees of China top 100 chain enterprises was over 2 million and the number of newly–opened stores reached 23,844, among which 20,000 stores were opened in rural areas. The average investment in every single store of over 3, 000 stores in cities surpassed 5 million RMB, which completed the direct investment to nearly 20 billion RMB.
In 2008, among China top 100 chain management enterprises, there were 23 chain enterprises engaging in general merchandise (in 2007, the number was 22), 7 enterprises engaging in household electrical appliances and 4 enterprises engaging in home building category. Affected by the macro – economy in the second half of last year, enterprises engaging in general merchandise, household electrical appliances and home building category were under great pressures. However, it was worth noting that hotel chain industry developed very fast. Home Inn symbolized hospitality industry’s entry into China top 100 chain management enterprises and further proved its leader status.
China Chain Store & Franchise Industry officially moves from retailing to the field of wholesale, production and services. The chain operation in service industry will expand widely, developing from tourism, restaurant, washing and dyeing and color enlarge-printing to service, express delivery, transportation, rental, law, intermediary services, the socialization of housework, etc. To some extent, the sales chain organization of side-products will be developed. In retailing, chain operation will be soon developed from supermarkets to convenience stores, general merchandise stores, stockroom – style supermarkets, shopping malls, discount stores, off price stores and home centers. Convenience stores, general merchandise stores and stockroom – style supermarkets will be the formats developing the most rapidly.
By reading this report, readers can learn more information
-Current Status of the Development of China Chain Store & Franchise
-Development Environment of China Chain Store & Franchise Industry
-Competition Status of China Chain Store & Franchise Industry
-Status of the Development of Sub-industries of China Chain Store & Franchise Industry
-Influence Factor to the Development of China Chain Store & Franchise Industry
-Influence of the International Financial Crisis on China Chain Store & Franchise Industry
-Prediction on the development tendency of China Chain Store & Franchise Industry
-Main enterprises in China Chain Store & Franchise Industry and their Operational Status
-Investment Opportunities of China Chain Store & Franchise Industry
-Suggestions of the Development of China Chain Store & Franchise Industry
Persons suggested buying this report:
-International and China Chain Store & Franchise operators
-Invertors of International and China Chain Store & Franchise Industry
-Suppliers of the chain management industry
-Potential investors who are prepared to enter China Chain Store & Franchise Industry
-Research institutes paying attention to China Chain Store & Franchise Industry
-Other persons paying attention to China Chain Store & Franchise Industry
Source: China Research and Intelligence
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010plz help! it’s due this friday!
