Fluor Corporation recently announced that its polysilicon project in China for LDK Solar, the solar wafer manufacturer, had logged more than two million craft hours without a single safety incident as at end of April 2008.

The Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center Airbag Lab has opened in Shanghai as a 50-50 joint venture between General Motors and Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation.

Following recalls and concerns over toy safety in China, Wal-Mart has begun sharing its new Toy Safety Net standards with all toy suppliers to ensure requirements and guidelines for material content in toy products, and testing, will impact all new toys and toy re-orders.

Pu Changcheng, the vice-director of AQSIQ, hs announced that during the recent special examination of product quality and food safety, AQSIQ examined and registered all toy manufactures and thoroughly investigated the 3,000 companies which manufacture or supply export toys from China. More than 600 companies' export licenses were canceled as a result of this inspection.

The American Society for Quality says much of the responsibility for quality problems that have resulted in Chinese product recalls lies with inadequate oversight by U.S. importers.

Li Qingxiang, deputy director of Guangdong Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, said that the Chinese government had taken many measures since the second half of last year to ensure the safety of exported toy products.

Gao Hongbin, vice minister of China's Ministry of Agriculture, said that MA will start building a long-term mechanism to ensure the quality of Chinese agricultural products while also consolidating the achievements they made during the recent special campaign on product quality and food safety.

U.S.-based, Heelys, a youth sports lifestyle company, announced the opening of its first China representative office in Qingdao.