America’s Big Three car companies are in the tank. Toyota Motor Corp. is planning its 7th factory in China - Changchun, Jilin Province. The facility will manufacture 100,000 cars a year.
The joint venture is Sichuan FAW Toyota Motor Co. The plant will cost Toyota Y4B.
Toyota’s goal was to sell 40% more cars in China this […]
Good news for Chinese wanting to visit the United States.
Last year, the U.S. embassy in China issued 400,000+ visas. That number was up 17% from the year before. Some 80% of people who applied were approved.
Last December China gave the United States approved destination status.
The flood gates have cracked open.
As things improve in China, […]
On the heels of the guy who used beer bottles and the sun to make hot water so his mother could take a shower, I have learned where he might have found all the beer bottles he needed.
In Qingdao, home of Qingdao beer.
The city has a new restaurant. On the menu is:
1. beer flavored meet
2. […]
Hainan Province in China is banking on clean energy. Can you say "wind power?"
The province is building a 120 megawatt (mW) wind power plant - 33 wind turbines with 1.5 mW each that once completed will generate 103 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity each year.
This project is just one for the process.
1. hydropower
2. wind power
3. […]
China's nuclear power firms are going the way of the auto and electronic companies.
The country wants to export it's ability and technology overseas.
Problem is, there is a massive push to expand the country's reliance on nuclear power domestically. If they have leeway to go overseas, why not work harder/do more at home?
Last month, Russia […]
The Koreans are no longer the largest population of foreigners in Japan.
For the longest time they were. Largely in part to many Koreans being brought to Japan by force when Japan had the Korean peninsula under colonial rule.
Now the Chinese are number one in population.
Altogether there are 2,152,973 registered foreign residents in Japan says the […]
A farmer in China’s Shaanxi province used beer bottles to make a solar water-heating device. He wanted his 73-year-old mother to be able to take a warm bath everyday.
The 42-year old farmer apparently couldn’t afford the price for the hi-tech solar water heaters and his mom was beginning to smell, so he took matters […]
Honda has a plan of attack for China this year.
The auto maker has two main goals -
1. Increase the number of dealerships to 700 by the end of the year.
2. roll out 650,000 cars out - up 20%
Honda presently has 560 dealerships.
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Japanese companies are feeling tremors from the recent earthquake in China.
American companies are feeling them.
Okay, everywhere they are being felt.
Intel Corp. has a chip testing and assembly plant in the area.
Nokia Corp. is missing two of its employees from its sales office in the area.
Motorola Inc has two of their employees injured.
Microsoft Corp received […]
I don't know which country needs which the most, but I know that Japan's economy has partly recovered largely because China's economy is going great guns. When Japan had much to sell and no one was buying, things were different.
At any rate, there's great potential for the economic and trade ties of the two countries […]
