| | Another baby step in cross-Strait relations | Asia Times | CK |
| | 2003 | | Asia Times 7 Feb 2003 |
| | Taiwan's major daily newspapers are expected to be able to enter mainland China via the "mini three |
| | links" within one month, business sources said. |
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| | Taiwan dailies, including the mass-circulation United Daily News and the China Times and their |
| | spinoffs, the Economic Daily News and the Commercial Times, are expected to make inroads into the |
| | mainland this month through Xiamen in Fujian province via the island of Kinmen, said Wu Tseng-yun, a |
| | Kinmen-based businessman. Wu acquired the distribution rights for the United Daily News and the |
| | China Times at the end of January and will be the sole agent and distributor of the four dailies in Fujian. |
| | http://www.atimes.com/atimes/china/EB07Ad01.html |
| | Fujian province takes lead in industrial growth. | EAI | PS |
| | 2003 |
| | FUZHOU, Jan 19, 2003 (Xinhua via COMTEX) |
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| | East China's Fujian Province recorded an enviable industrial growth rate in 2002, with the electronics, |
| | machinery and petrochemical sectors as the major driving forces. |
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| | Last year, large-scale industrial enterprises in Fujian, one of China's most booming regions, produced |
| | an estimated total of 103.5 billion yuan (12.47 billion US dollars) in value-added output, a year-on-year |
| | increase of 19.5 percent, the highest in the country. |
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| | The electronics, machinery and petrochemical sectors combined accounted for 45 percent of the |
| | value-added output, said Xie Xianwen, director of the provincial economic and trade commission. |
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| | In order to maintain the robust growth, the province will focus its efforts on expanding the three |
| | sectors, Xie added. |
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| | With regard to the electronics sector, provincial authorities intend to develop computer and related |
| | networks, telecom terminals, software, digital audio and video, and new components. |
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| | The priorities for the machinery sector will include motor vehicles, transport machinery, engineering |
| | machinery and electronic devices. |
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| | For the petrochemical sector, efforts will be put on the popularization of production technology for |
| | clean fuel, intensified processing technology for heavy oil and new synthetic materials products. |
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| | In addition, the sector plans to increase its production of fine chemicals and build Asia's largest |
| | chlorate (chloric acid salt) production base. |
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