Logistics & Transport

2017 China Shipbuilding Industry: Chance Born in Crisis

In 2016, three major indicators of shipbuilding had a significant drop and profits of relevant enterprises slumped due to the lasting downturn of shipping industry. According to CRI, in 2016, national shipbuilding completion amount was 35.32 million DWTs, down by 15.6% YOY; new orders of ships were 21.07 million DWTs, down by 32.6% YOY; up to the end of Dec, 2016, handheld ship orders were 99.61 million DWTs, down by 19% YOY. From Jan to Nov, 2016, profits of shipbuilding industry enterprises above the nationwide scale are CNY 14.74 billion,…

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Logistics & Transport

Reliable Ranking of Global Top 10 Shipbuilding Companies

The ranking of shipyards can be based on multiple parameters — from completion amount to holding orders. However, what reflects the real operation situation of a company is its sales revenue. Recently, the list of top 10 shipbuilding companies in terms of sales revenue was released by the press. It shows that the top 5 are in South Korea, China and Japan, indicating the trend of the global shipbuilding industry. (CRI note: the actual sales revenue of a company is hard to calculate. In particular, China’s two shipbuilding leaders are…

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Manufacturing Telecoms & Computing

China’s Service Robot Market Grew by 28.2% Annually

With the advances in robotics technologies, robots will be used in more diverse scenarios and wider professional service applications. Science educational robots are represented by Atlas and Aldebaran of Boston Dynamics and China’s “Huitong”. They are not put on the market and are only used in laboratories and science and technology museums. Agricultural robots are represented by Kanao’s picking robot, DJI’s plant protection UAV and Hot-Cheers’s sorting robot. European agricultural robots and Chinese plant protection UAVs are the most widely used ones. Delivery robots are represented by Amazon’s delivery drones,…

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Manufacturing

Global Top 10 Construction Machinery Manufacturers

International Construction released Yellow Table 2016, the ranking of top 50 construction manufacturers in 2016. Caterpillar and Komatsu retained the first and second position, respectively. Terex overtook Hitachi to become the third and the latter fell to the fourth. Liebherr ranked the fifth and Volvo the sixth. Both Doosan and JCB rose two positions up into the top 10. Chinese manufacturers XCMG, Sany and Zoomlion made their way into the list. XCMG ranked the ninth and is the only Chinese company among the top 10.   Ranking Company Company Sales…

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Medical Healthcare

Analysis of Status Quo and Driving Forces in China Health Industry

China’s health industry enjoys continuously fast growth. The scale of the industry grew by CAGR of 16.03% from 2011 to 2014, reaching CNY 2.5 trillion in 2014. Specific examination of the growth of sub-industries of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, healthcare products and medical cosmetics are as follows: The CAGR of the pharmaceutical industry was 19% (2010-2014); that of the medical device industry was 30.50% (2010-2014); that of the healthcare industry was 30.40% (2010-2014); that of medical cosmetics was 16.58% (2010-2014). The rapid growth of the health industry is driven by three…

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Food & Beverage

Prospect and Future of China Hog Raising Industry

China’s hog raising industry is mostly backyard raising at small scale. Since 2005, the opportunity cost of emigrating to urban areas for work has increased and environmental regulations have intensified. As a result, the number of backyard raising households declined substantially and hog raising is now of larger scale. As of 2015, more than 50% of hogs were slaughtered at farms with more than 500 hogs going to market per year. Large-scale production has huge room to improve. In the U.S., the process of scaling up hog raising has almost…

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Logistics & Transport

China Cold Chain Logistics Industry Keep Steady Increase in 2017

First, the CAGR of Cold Chain Logistics Industry increased by 20% in the next 3 to 5 years, and cold chain facility demand maintains steady growth. From three stages of “the first kilometer”, “circulation” and “the last kilometer”, cold chain equipment industry, corresponding to the pre-cooling equipment, cold storage equipment, refrigerated trucks/refrigerated container transport equipment, “the last kilometer equipment” and so on, of which cold storage and refrigerated trucks are the core of the equipment links. The first and the last kilometer links are the large part of the potential…

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Automobile

Analysis on Sales Volume of New Energy Vehicles in China, 2016

New energy vehicles include battery electric vehicle, extended range electric vehicle, hybrid electric vehicle, fuel cell electric vehicle, hydrogen engine vehicle and other new energy vehicles. In 2016, the global sales volume of new energy passenger vehicles was 774,000, which increased by 40% YOY, accounting for 0.85%. The proportion of new energy passenger vehicles was estimated to increase to 1% in 2017. The sales volume of Nissan Leaf, Tesla Model S, BYD Tang ranked the top three, respectively. China is the world’s largest consumer of new energy passenger vehicles, with…

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Telecoms & Computing

Status Quo and Investment of China Optical Communication Industry

In 2016, the fixed asset investment of China’s telecommunication industry reached CNY 435 billion, among which the investment in mobile communication were CNY 235.5 billion. The fixed asset investment of telecommunication industry kept growing steadily since 2013. By the second half year of 2015, the investment of optical communication increased rapidly, up by 15% YOY. In 2016, there was a slight decline in the fixed asset investment of telecommunication industry. As cloud computing develops rapidly, the demand for large bandwidth of IDC drives the rapid growth of optical communication. In…

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