As part of the Chinese government's USD586 billion economic stimulus package, the government of Hengyang in Hunan has agreed to provide lead acid battery manufacturer China Ritar Power Corp. with a new industrial park in Hengyang, which will enable China Ritar to expand its production capacity three fold.

Two months after its closure, the Electrolux refrigerator plant in Changsha has been acquired by Hunan Hualiang Electric Industry Appliances.

It was learned at the recent Hunan Medical Instrument Supervision Work Conference that 66 medical instrument companies in Hunan had their production or operating licenses revoked in 2008.

DSM Nutritional Products, a subsidiary of Royal DSM N.V., a global life sciences and materials sciences company headquartered in the Netherlands, has opened its third premix plant in China.

Adding 30 new clients has increased Shaanxi based China Green Agriculture's regional distributor base to 480 individual distributors covering 27 provinces in China.

American corn whiskey — commonly known as moonshine — will be available legally on the Chinese market by the end of 2008.

Hunan Valin Steel Group Co., Ltd. and ArcelorMittal have signed a joint venture agreement for the production and sales of electrical steel, one more milestone following the auto sheet JV agreement signed by both parties last June.

China Ritar Power Corp., a Chinese manufacturer of lead-acid batteries, announced that its technical and manufacturing complex in Hengyang City, Hunan Province began production of lead plates on July 30, 2008.

ArcelorMittal, Hunan Valin Group and Hunan Valin Steel Co. have announced the launch of Valin ArcelorMittal Automotive Steel, an industrial and commercial joint venture.

BASF opened a new concrete admixture plant in Wuhan to manufacture advanced concrete admixtures to benefit customers in central China's major provinces including Hubei, Hunan and Jiangxi.