Among the top-performing shares in Hong Kong have been China National Building Material Co.
Sichuan Shuangma Cement Co. jumped 10.1% in Shenzhen, while in Hong Kong, West China Cement climbed 5.1% and China National Building Material Co.
Analysts said that Futong achieved a breakthrough in the manufacturing of optical fiber preform, the core raw material for optical fiber production, and is the first enterprise in China that can make this material with the latest all-synthesis technology.
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On the West coast, Perth lies at the center of its vast natural gas and iron ore fields that are supplying China with much of the raw material for its factories.
Asian exporters face slower growth abroad, high raw-material prices, growing competition from China and diminishing returns from cost cutting.
It is the rare product today that is more expensive to manufacture in China due to some unique technology or raw material requirement.
As competition intensifies, China's video websites have begun producing their own material to differentiate themselves.
China maintains a number of measures that restrain exports of raw material inputs for which it is the top, or near top, world producer.
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China is now complaining that the EU has been responsible for dumping material at below cost.
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China's rapid adoption of the internet has even provided rich material for a whole new genre of classified reporting.
China declared its support for steps to stop illicit trafficking of nuclear material in what correspondents describe as an uncharacteristically prompt response to a US initiative.
Ms. Gu and Mr. Devillers were both consulting partners for Horas Consultancy, a company that advised businesses investing in Dalian and elsewhere in China in the 1990s, according to that firm's publicity material.
As China rises from poverty, its people, too, will seek more material comforts.
Since adopting my daughter from China in 2005, I've discovered motherhood is an unending source of material.
The Commission attributed the slowdown to lower global demand, higher material costs, a volatile financial market and tight credit conditions in China.
Solarfun Power Holdings, based in China, did much better, gaining 23.7%, though without any material news.
There is no question China and many of its close neighbors in Asia are experiencing a period of unprecedented material prosperity, and the incentives to continue along that path will certainly influence political diplomacy.
Steel makers have been forced to take steps to protect themselves against painful raw material cost increases mainly due to surging demand from Asia's tiger economies, including China, to power their growth.
"Basic material wealth is a necessity, " observed Zhou, executive editor of the English-language newspaper, China Daily.
Among the announcements at Beijing Design Week, however, US based Material Connexions, the leading materials library and consultancy, announced a new Beijing office, its first in China.
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