Chinese market size

China s pharmaceutical market is growing at a very fast pace. The current data show that the total market is around US 20 billion, and it is the ninth largest pharmaceutical country in the world. The Chinese government maintains price control on imported drugs. With China s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO), tariffs have been reduced from 20% to 6.5%. The projection is that the market size will reach US 60 billion by 2010, and China will be the world s largest market by 2020. 

Worldwide, 430 nuclear plants generate about 17% of all electricity. In France, nuclear s share is 79% in Japan it is 28%. Whereas there has not been a new nuclear plant ordered in the United States since 1978, there were 24 nuclear power plants worldwide under construction in 2005 (ElA 2006c). Many countries have ambitious plans to build more plants. China, with just nine plants currently in operation, plans on building as many as 25 new plants by 2025. Given the potential size of the Chinese market, reactor vendors from several countries are actively pursuing Chinese contracts, with the hope that China will use their designs for future plants. 

Lead-acid batteries have been widely used in electric bicycles (E-bikes), especially in China. The Chinese government estimated that there were approximately 80 million E-bikes in China in 2010, where 95% of the E-bikes are powered by lead-acid batteries. The market size for E-bike batteries in 2010 for North America (NA), Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), Asia-Pacific (AP) and Rest of World (ROW) was USD 13.6 billion and is expected to grow to USD 24.2 billion by 2020, as shown in Figure 1.3. 

The supply chain management model is generalised from two case studies representing Chinese medium-sized manufacturers. It includes two interacting SCs, a DSC and an ISC, to serve domestic and international markets, respectively. Thus, the context of the generalised model can be described as follows ... 

It is hard to judge the exact size of the market for birdseed safflower, but as feeding of wild birds increases in the United States, most dealers believe it has exceeded 20,0001 annually. China generally enjoys the reputation of supplying the best birdseed quality, since much of Chinese seed is below 30% in oil content and normally has white hulls. Weather and transportation factors sometimes increase difficulties... 

The pharmaceutical and medical market of China is growing very quickly. The size of China s pharmaceutical market in 1992 excluding bulk drugs and traditional Chinese medicines, was 19.3 billion and 3.5 billion at the official 1992 exchange rate. This reflects overall growth of 92 and 30%, respectively, compared to five years previously. The pharmaceutical market grew by 30% in 1993-1994 to 10 billion. 

In addition, the large number of Chinese players in several industry segments often results in sub-scale plants with inefficient operations. The average plant size of an acrylic acid manufacturer in China, for instance, is less than one-seventh of the average size of corresponding plants in advanced markets. 

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