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DEVELOPMENT OF CHINA'S INDUSTRY
China's printing industry maintained the healthy and stable developing tendency in 2008, and the printing industry has become an important industrial sector of the national economy.
In 2008, there were 102,043 printing enterprises of all kinds in China. Of all these printing enterprises, 6,427 were engaged in publication printing, 43,096 in printed matters for packaging and decoration, 49,211 in other printed matters, 3,263 in special typesetting, plate making and bookbinding and 46 in digital printing. There were 2,394 foreign-invested printing enterprises, including 945 Chinese-foreign equity joint ventures, 218 contractual Chinese-foreign joint ventures and 1,231 wholly foreign-owned enterprises. There were 155 enterprises engaged in publication printing, 2,126 in printed matters for packaging and decorating and 113 in other printed matters. The total investment of various types of printing enterprises was USD19.61b, with registered capital of USD10.988b.
Affected by the international financial crisis, the aggregative index of economic efficiency in printing machinery industry decreased by 63% year-on-year, and the demand for printing machinery products also reduced rapidly. In 2008, the production of new printing machinery products was RMB3.17676b, 13.4% lower than the same period of 2007; the export delivery value was RMB1.01306b, increasing by 2.1% compared with that in 2007. The self-run foreign-exchange earning of printing paper through exports was RMB135.33m, with an increase of 5.9%.
In 2008, the most popular product in the supply of printing industry is the sheet-fed offset press, followed by other printing support materials and other printing machinery accessories. The sheet-fed offset press remained a strong popularity, ranking the first of the list. The supply of printing support materials and printing machinery accessories increased greatly in 2008, and other printing support materials are in the most concern of the buyers. Ink and sheet-fed offset press ranked the second and the third. China’s total output of ink in 2008 accounted for 5-6% of the world’s yield, ranking the fourth, following the United States, Japan and Germany, with an annually growth rate of more than l0%. Other products such as sensitive glue, printing plate material, gilding material, other printing machinery, blanket and sticky printing machine are also in the list.
STATUS OF FOREIGN INVESTMENT
According to the statistics of MOFCOM, 55 foreign investment projects in Printing industry(Printing Industry (Code C23) hereinafter is in accordance with the National Economic Industrial Classification (GB/T4754-2202）.) were newly set up in 2009, 17 less than that of the same period in the last year, and the amount of the actual utilized foreign capital reached USD 304,710,000, down by 7.77％
year-on-year. The number of newly established foreign invested enterprises and the amount of the actual utilized foreign capital accounted for 0.23％and 0.34％
of the national total number or amount of foreign capital absorption in the Printing industry during the same period.
According to the source of foreign capital, calculated by the amount of the actual utilized foreign capital, in 2009, countries or regions: Hong Kong, Br. Virgin Is, Netherlands, Samoa, Germany ranked No.1 to No. 5 in the Printing industry regarding the amount of FDI, accounting for 77.19%, 5.63%, 4.18%, 2.82%, 2.52% of the total amount of the actual utilized foreign capital of the industry separately.
In Printing Industry in 2009, ten Asian countries/regions (Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Japan, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Korea) newly set up 51 enterprises in China, with the actual utilized foreign capital of USD 253,410,000, down by 17.74％
and up by 8.8％
separately year-on-year. The number of the newly established enterprises and the actual utilized foreign capital accounted for 92.73％
and 83.16％
of the national total number or amount of foreign capital absorption in the same period.
According to regional foreign capital absorption, 51 foreign-invested Printing enterprises were newly set up in the Eastern area, with actual utilized foreign capital of USD 291,270,000, accounting for 92.73% and 95.59% of the national total number or amount of foreign capital absorption in the same period. In the Eastern area, Guangdong Province, Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province ranked among the tops with respect to actual utilized foreign capital, had 34, 4 and 1 newly established foreign-invested enterprises separately, with the actual utilized foreign capital of USD 150,570,000, USD 108,870,000 and USD 12,150,000, accounting for 49.41%, 35.73% and 3.99% of the total amount of the actual utilized capital of the industry in the Eastern area separately.
3 foreign-invested Printing enterprises were newly set up in the Central region, with actual utilized foreign capital of USD 11,260,000, accounting for 5.45% and 3.7% of the national total number or amount of foreign capital absorption in the same period. In the Central region, Jilin Province, Jiangxi Province and Hubei ranked among the tops with respect to actual utilized foreign capital, with the actual utilized foreign capital of USD 7,960,000, USD 3,010,000 and USD 270,000, accounting for 2.61%, 0.99% and 0.09% of the total amount of the actual utilized capital of the industry in the Central region separately. Among them, Jiangxi Province had 2 newly established foreign-invested enterprises.
1 foreign-invested Printing enterprise was newly set up in the Western area, with actual utilized foreign capital of USD 2,180,000, accounting for 1.82% and 0.72% of the national total number or amount of foreign capital absorption in the same period. Chongqing and Yunnan Province ranked among the tops with respect to actual utilized foreign capital, with the actual utilized foreign capital of USD 2,120,000 and USD 60,000, accounting for 0.7% and 0.02% of the total amount of the actual utilized capital of the industry in the Western area separately. Among them, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region had 1 newly established foreign-invested enterprise.
According to utilizing manners of the foreign capital, newly established projects of Printing industry in 2009 are as follows: 7 Chinese-foreign equity joint venture projects, 48 wholly foreign-invested projects, The amount of the actual utilized foreign capital reached USD 28,750,000 and USD 254,440,000 separately．
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