Executives have been pressing officials in China to include GE's advanced boiling-water reactors in their next five-year economic plan (China uses the pressurized reactors championed by perennial GE rival Westinghouse, now part of British Nuclear Fuels Ltd.).
That's not necessarily an idea that would bring a lot of comfort to some folks who are a little bit nervous about the increasing U.S. business presence in China, the announcement, for instance, that GE, is sending its radiological business completely over to China.
My friends in China talk about the portable medical scanning devices from GE that have been used successfully in the their market for diagnosing patients in rural areas in mobile clinics.
So says Dingkun Ge, an expert in growth strategy and entrepreneurship at the China U.S. School of Entrepreneurship and Innovation where he is president.
GE's Mr. Annunziata says some of the slowdown in large emerging economies like China and Brazil is a result of deliberate tightening of government policies.