Juneyao Airlines Company will enter the Jiangxi aviation market by launching scheduled flights from Nanchang to Shanghai.

U.S.-based Eastman Chemical Company has acquired Tongxiang Xinglong Fine Chemical Company, a cellulose-based specialty polymers manufacturing facility located near Shanghai.

Shanghai Chemical Industry Park Industrial Gases Company, a 50-50 joint venture between Praxair Inc. and Air Liquide, two leading global suppliers of industrial gases, was recently awarded a 15-year industrial gases pipeline supply contract to supply hydrogen and carbon monoxide to Bayer Polyurethanes (Shanghai) Company.

Chinese meat and food processing company Zhongpin Inc. has received two payments totaling CNY21.4 million in cash subsidies from the Chinese government to help it expand its production capacity.

Shanghai-based NOD Pharmaceuticals Inc. has announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has approved the patent application for its nano-particle oral delivery technology.

The contract research organization Sundia Meditech has been addressing concerns that the Shanghai 2010 World Expo may have an impact on the customs clearance status of CROs, especially CROs in the Shanghai area.

Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei Technologies has announced the launch of its 2009 recruitment drive.

Power supply manufacturer, XP Power has trebled the size of its plant near Shanghai, China, to meet growing demand for the company's high-efficiency, compact power supplies aimed at the industrial, healthcare, and technology markets.

Shanghai Basic Software Industry Base, which is reportedly the first industrial park or technology zone of its kind in China, was established on September 24, 2009.

The U.S.-based information services company Information Services Group, has announced that its business unit TPI, said to be the largest sourcing data and advisory firm in the world, has signed an agreement to help Huaqiao, a satellite zone of Shanghai, take the lead in expanding the outsourcing market in China.