The new service is aimed to help Chinese users use Google’s existing search services like Web search and Google Maps via cell phones.

Till now the Chinese version voice search provided by Google can only be used for Nokia’s S60 series, which includes 46 models of handsets. But Vic Gundotra, Google’s engineering vice-president, claimed that the service will expanded to other platforms soon after, which include Apple Inc’s iPhone and Android-based handsets.

Lin Bin, deputy director of Google China Research Center said in a statement that mobile Internet era is coming; mobile phones will soon become as powerful as personal computers. However, since the kinds of mobile phones are limited, the searching on a mobile is extremely hard.

In 2008, English voice search service is provided by Google, which contains images and maps, for the handsets of Android, Nokia S60, Black-Berry and iPhone.

Google aimed to make its mobile search business surpass the PC-based Internet search business, said Lin.

During the past few years, Google made efforts to catch up with Chinese domestic leader Baidu Inc which flung the former as a second player in China’s online search engine market. Since 2009, Google has been popularizing its mobile search service vigorously in China, where the users of mobile phone are already passed 700 million.

According to figures from domestic research firm Analysis International, Baidu is still the market leader in China, which takes over 60 percent of the search market share. However, in China’s mobile search market, Google is a little bit in front of Baidu whose share reached 26 percent in the second quarter in 2009 while the former clinched 26.6 percent.

Chinese search engine Baidu claimed in October that it cooperated with China Unicom to provide wireless search for the carrier’s 3G mobile subscribers. On Friday, the popular iPhone was launched by China Unicom in China.

Experts predicted with the mobile phone users can surf the Internet via handsets, the mobile search is becoming one of the most attractive markets for search engines to expand their service beyond personal computers.

Due to China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), by the end of June, the number of China’s Internet users achieved to 338 million, while the mobile Internet users increased 32.1 percent to 155 million.

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Wan Gang, science and technology minister, said, “It is the talent pool that empowers China to compete in the campaign of global innovation,” during the 5th Overseas Chinese Forum Worldwide yesterday in Beijing.

Wan said that the government has always endeavored to cultivate the nation’s technological talent base, and its human resources in regard to the technology fields are now among the best in the world.

China is emerging as an ever-popular destination for foreign students, with numbers steadily rising over the past several years, he said.

Based on the latest research of the China Association of Science and Technology, the country already ranks sixth in the world’s overseas study market.

“However, the market is still hungry for cutting-edge technological talents,” Wan said at the forum, which appealed over 200 overseas Chinese from 14 foreign countries.

Li Haifeng, the chief of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, said, “The forum aims to be a bridge for overseas Chinese to learn about the favourable policies of the Chinese government, and share cooperative purposes with domestic peers.”

“I made the right decision to come back to China and restart my career here,” Xue Lan, chief of Tsinghua University’s Public Policy and Management School, said, after studying and working in the US for about 20 years before the 1990s.

But Xue said that there is still a long way for China to go to promote “trilateral networks among academia, state and industry.”

According to the International Labour Office earlier this month, the current global financial crisis could increase world unemployment by an estimated 20 million.

Insiders said that the crisis, which might also affect China, could serve as opportunity to attract more overseas Chinese back home.

“My former colleagues in America call me every day to consult me on the latest information and chances to work in China since the recent economic crisis hit America,” Wang Dazong, general manager of Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Company, who studied in America and worked for General Motors, told China Daily.

The Overseas Chinese Forum ended on 29th October.

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Recently, international property consulting and management firm Jones Lang LaSalle conducted deep research into the sector and published a report to review the future growth, identify the likely business park hot spots and assess how the landscape is going to evolve over the next few years. The report tells that business parks today are generally characterized by suburban areas and mixed building types, which continue to be built in accordance to very different requirements in terms of different quality and working environment.

China’s emerging business park sector is strengthening occupiers’ demand for high-quality business space in China. This is supported by expansion of research and development activities of high-tech and pharmaceuticals firms seeking high-specification space, by the fast growth in business process outsourcing (BPO) industry, and by huge demand of multinationals for campus-style space outside high-cost CBD locations. Demand is further boosted by the strategy of the government. That is moving the Chinese economy up the value chain and its policy of mapping out R&D and BPO clusters across the country.

“The stock of business park space in China, which is estimated to stand currently at about 17 million sq m, is expected to more than double to around 38 million sq m by 2010. Over 60 percent of the current stock is located in the four cities of Shanghai, Beijing, Dalian and Guangzhou,” said Jileen Loo, head of business park sector for Jones Lang LaSalle China. Apart from these, over the next few years, many other cities such as Chengdu, Suzhou, Xi’an and Tianjin will increase sharply in business park activities.

Hot spots
These cities has been grouped by property firm in to three market types, each offering different opportunities and characteristics for occupiers, developers and investors.

The first type is prime markets, including Beijing and Shanghai, which are the most transparent markets and are currently favored by established players and new market entrants such as Goodman, CapitaLand, Shui On and Frasers Property. These two municipalities account for more than one third of China’s current business park stock and are host to China’s most high-profile parks. The rapid expansion of R&D activities, growth in back-of-fices and the decentralization of business activities from CBDs support the robust occupier demand.

The second type is transitional markets, such as Dalian, Chengdu and Hangzhou. They are gradually catching up with the prime markets as they are developing their niche markets to differentiate from the prime markets, especially in BPO activities.

The third type is the first-mover-advantage market, for example, Tianjin, Jinan and Chongqing. Those cities have lower levels of business park activities while their governments have afggresive plans for expansion, and they offer generous incentive for new entrants in order to attract high-quality tenants and experienced developers. Loo said, due to the strong government support and the presence of multinational companies, they believe Tianjin has the potential to develop as a robust business park market.

Developers and investors
The business park sector is now attracting international developers and investors, which reflects the prosperous long-term demand fundamentals offered by business parks and caused by strong competition as well as tighter regulations in commercial property.

Ascendas, Goodman, Frasers Property, Shui On and CapitaLand have been the most active international developers. Lots of US investors such as GE, Blackstone, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs have showed their interest in business park sector.

“The credit crunch affecting the US market in 2008 is putting a new spotlight on investment opportunities in China, but the long-term impact on the China businesses park investment market remains to be seen,” said Stuart Ross, head of Industrial China for Jones Lang LaSalle.

So far, there are very few dedicated domestic business park developers. However, the chances offered are starting to attract more local players, such as Raycom and TechPark Development.

By now, there are only a limited number of projects on the market that meet international standards. But most investors are adopting a cautious approach. They are confident about the prospects in the next five years.

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As the surplus goods, produced by the fall in exports, can not be digested by domestic market, many Chinese are possibly facing the problem of excess capacity, caused by easy and cheap credit in the several passing years.

The problem is particularly serious in the steel and heavy industry sectors, which play an important role in pushing the economic growth, said by economists and industry analysts.

After huge industrial investment over the past years, production of enterprises in several sectors exceeds the domestic need. Sine then, the country has begun exporting its surplus goods abroad.

In 2003, China’s total exports exceeded imports for the very first time. It is the turning point in China’s external trade. The ascending trade surplus has mostly coming several specific sectors, such as heavy industrial equipment and steel, rather than a wide range of industries.

Steel exports, for example, used to account for 25 percent of the country’s total exports during the past several years. In facing the declining global demand, major steel manufactures had decided to cut its output by 20 percent.

Customs’ statistics showed the growth rate of China’s accumulated export to the United States from January to July is 9.9 percent, the first single digit growth since 2002, 8.1 percentage points down.

It is estimated that for every point of decline in US GDP, whose growth is largely tampered by its internal demand, China’s total exports will drop 4.75 percentage points.

Light industries such as garments and toys have got the same heavy blow from falling exports. But it is said that mainly labor-intensive manufacturing industries are involved, which with little long-term capital investment. Their response will be simply cutting working hours and reducing the shifts.

Even so, thousands of small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises in Pearl River Delta region can not escape the end of being closed down.

Latest official figures showed that China’s export growth declined to 21 percent year-on-year in August, from 26.9 percent in July. Meanwhile, industrial production growth fell to 12.8 percent year-on-year in August from 14.7 percent in July and 16 percent in June.

“Generally Chinese exports are sensitive to weaker demand in industrialized countries, especially the US,” said Zhao Xinge, a professor at China Europe International Business School. About 40 percent of China’s exports are directed to the US and European Union.

Indeed, the government has acted to ease the impact of the worsening US financial crisis on China’s economy. “We expect China’s government to continue loosening monetary policy and put its fiscal resources to stimulate investment in infrastructure,” said Jing Ulrich, managing director and chairwoman of China Equities at JPMorgan.

But it may take months, if not years, for the government measures to take effect, while the problems generated by overcapacity in some major industrial sectors are pending.

Zhang Ping, a senior steel industry analyst at Umetals, a leading domestic metal consultancy, said:” Sine 2003, there has been sharp and persistent increase of investment in the steel industry, despite some interruption during that period by the government with its macro policy of regulating overinvestment.”

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