McDonald's and Hualian link up
MCDONALD'S has launched a joint venture with Hualian Group, one of the largest supermarket chains in the city.
DuPont to invest more in China
DUPONT will continue to expand its investment in Shanghai if China enters the World Trade Organization.
Russia to sail China-US route
CONTAINER shipping is booming despite the fact that this is traditionally the slack season.
Chevrolet Blazer on the trail
GENERAL Motors (GM) is on time and on target in hiring and training a work force as it prepares to roll off its first Chevrolet Blazer in mid-December.
Dragon Head founds Chinese textiles website
"THE marriage of traditional industry and advanced commercial methods is perfect for the new century," Vice-Mayor Jiang Yiren said last week.
New Nestle bottled water plant built
COMPLETION of the first phase expansion of Nestle Sources Shanghai Ltd plant, which now boasts an annual production capacity of 100 million bottles of water, was announced last week.
ECnet to grow from booming e-business
ECnet Co, from California, a provider of business to business e-commerce enabler for the high-tech manufacturing community, is upbeat on its expansion into the local market.
It's official, Win2000 now on local market
MICROSOFT officially unveiled last Thursday its landmark generation operating system - Windows 2000 Chinese version - in the local market despite the fact that it has already been selling well for almost one month.
Xujiahui offers lots of advantages
BOTH local Shanghainese and foreigners see Xujiahui in the city's southwest Xuhui District as one of Shanghai's best residential areas.
Discovering quiet luxury downtown
RESIDENTS in Shanghai can see large stocks of high quality properties in the suburbs, but new, high quality ones in the downtown area seem hard to find.
On-line gene data bank a rich research resource
By Tao Yungang
GENETIC researchers across China will for the first time have access to a database of 40 billion genes from May when a new on-line data bank opens in Shanghai. BioRoad Gene Development Ltd Shanghai, the company setting up the website, believes the lack of a central source of information about all known genes is hampering research in the field. Organizations doing genetic research tend to guard their discoveries jealously. "This is an unhealthy development. It makes research less efficient and can lead to duplicated studies and research results," said Qing Yilong, general manager of BioRoad, adding that the framework construction of Chinagene.net has already been completed. "The site features some of BioRoad's latest discoveries - genes newly identified by the company," said Qing. The data bank includes a lot of gene information sourced from foreign countries. "Surfers have to pay for the use of this part," said Qing. The general manager said he is confident BioRoad, one of a number of private companies established by a group of professors from Fudan University, had taken the lead in genetic research in China. These individual companies are soon to be merged and renamed United Gene-Tech (Group). "But we still feel held back by the current research atmosphere in China which is very conservative," he said. The company hopes the new data bank website will go some way to creating a more research-friendly environment in China.
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