Manufacturing

China successfully launched the "SinoSat-6" satellite for radio and television live broadcast at 12:14 a.m.Sunday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province.

The satellite was carried on the Long March 3B rocket which took the SinoSat-6 into a geostationary transfer orbit 26 minutes after the launch.

In order to solve the endless traffic jams inside Beijing downtown, a brand new concept public transport vehicle been put on the table.

This new bus will run at the speed of 60-80 KM,  it allows sedan or other vehicles (less than 2 meters high) drive under it, even when it park in bus stops.

China this week is marking a milestone along the road to its remarkable economic rise: the creation of a special economic zone in the city of Shenzhen 30 years ago. From a small backwater just across the border from Hong Kong, it has become a city of more than 10 million people, a home to many of China’s richest people, and a headquarters for many of the country’s most successful foreign and non-state-owned businesses.

Recently, however, the city has been in the news in connection with a spate of suicides at Taiwan electronics manufacturer Hon Hai Precision, a company better known by its trade name, Foxconn. Reports say the big supplier to companies such as Apple and Nokia has decided to move some manufacturing to other parts of China and reduce its workforce in Shenzhen.

For the nine or 10 people besides me that follow China’s commercial aerospace sector, Reinhardt Krause posted an excellent summary on how China’s plan to build its first big passenger plane promises to reshape its fast-growing aviation market and what’s at stake for suppliers. Here’s my take on how it impacts Boeing and Airbus.