Yingli Green Energy, a Chinese vertically integrated photovoltaic product manufacturer, has entered into a new long-term polysilicon supply agreement with German company Wacker Chemie AG.

While the world economy is heading to the toilet and Chinese manufacturers are preparing to feel the pinch because their overseas buyers will have no cash, Alibaba.com is hoping a new round of international advertising will maintain its growth with helping connect Chinese suppliers with foreign customers.

In their Energy Rating Comparison Measurement tests in 2008 TUV has rated Chinese manufacturer Trina Solar in the top three manufacturers of monocrystalline photovoltaic modules.

China Valves Technology has announced that its subsidiary Henan Kaifeng High Pressure Valve Company has developed the capability to manufacture high quality technology-intensive forged steel valves for use in ultra supercritical thermal power generating units.

Airbus has officially opened its first final assembly line outside of Europe — in Tianjin.

AOC, one of the world's top Chinese monitor manufacturers, has announced plans to build a LCD module and LCD television plant in the flat-panel and LCD monitor industrial base in Nanhai District, Foshan, Guangdong Province.

Hong Kong's VTech has signed a licensing agreement with Deutsche Telekom for exclusive right to supply corded and cordless telephones for the Deutsche Telekom's T-Home brand in Germany.

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited has started initial small-scale production of polysilicon ingots, wafers, PV cells and PV modules of its latest 200 MW expansion project.

Right before the World Intellectual Property Rights Day on April 26, 2008, the Shenzhen Procuratorial Department published details of a software piracy case jointly uncovered by police from China and the United States.

German police disclosed that they had conducted a check on exhibitors at CeBIT held in Hannover, Germany and confiscated dozens of boxes of mobile phones, navigation instruments and other devices from Chinese businesses suspected of patent infringements.