Beijing-Taiwan Mobile Computer Tech SeminarChief executive officers from over 40 top-notch IT players based in Beijing and Taiwan attended the 2001 Beijing-Taiwan Mobile Computer Technology Development Seminar, which opened in Beijing Monday.Liu Qi, mayor of Beijing, addressed the opening ceremony calling for a joint effort by IT companies, experts and businessmen to accelerate the construction of a mobile IT industry in Beijing. Sources with the municipal Development Planning Commission said the city is creating a favorable environment to appeal to Taiwan IT companies to settle in Beijing's Laptop Computer Manufacturing Center and the North Micro-Electronic Industrial Base. At the meeting, the municipal government announced a batch of preferential policies related to the fast development of the city' s high-tech industry. The sales of laptop computers reached 419,000 units in China's mainland region last year, which represented an increase of 40.6 percent on an annual basis. Taiwan is home to 60 percent of the world's laptop market. With an urgent need for expansion, IT players on the island are seeking new room for production centers elsewhere. As Taiwan lessened restrictions on the investment bound to the inland region by the end of last year, enthusiasm has been further fueled on the cooperation in the IT industry on both sides of the Straits. Many Taiwan computer entrepreneurs said that time is mature for IT companies across the Straits to team up. The seminar has provided a good opportunity for those exchanges. Officials with the Beijing Electronic Holding Co., the seminar sponsor, said that letters of intent can be expected on laptop manufacturing, assembly and TFT-LCD research and development projects during the meeting. |
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