Kodak is opening a second production line for its Xiamen printing plate manufacturing facility to enhance the company's manufacturing capacity for offset products.

Chengdu-based Tianyin Pharmaceutical has received the production license of Tongbianling Capsules in dosage form of 0.25 gram per capsule and is due to market the new product in February 2009.

China's leading beer brewer China Resources Snow Breweries has announced plans to invest CNY650 million to set up a production base in Shanghai.

Japan-based Oki Electric Industry Company has expanded its wholly-owned subsidiary that manufactures and sells keyboards in China's Kunshan and has started production at the new site.

After five-months of negotiation, HP has signed a memorandum of understanding with China's Chongqing Municipality to build a computer manufacturing plant — the company's second computer plant in China following the plant in Shanghai.

Local media reports from a recent Blu-ray Disc Association press conference that Shanghai Epic Music Entertainment Company Ltd. will start producing Blu-ray Discs in mainland China.

American pharmaceutical, medical devices and consumer packaged goods manufacturer Johnson & Johnson has announced the formal operation of its Chinese medical device production base in Suzhou.

SVA, which has submitted three high-generation LCD proposals to local governments in China, plans to invest over US$1.5 billion to build a sixth generation LCD line.

China Sun Group, which has the second largest cobalt series production capacity in China, says it has made technological improvements to its production line by increasing the lifetime and performance of mixing bowls used during anode material production.

News from Jiangsu Provincial Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine is that Jiangsu has suspended the operations of 85 toy manufacturers since the province initiated a special campaign last year.