Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Industry has announced plans to invest at least USD1 billion to build a new plant in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province.

Taiwanese manufacturer of thin film transistor liquid crystal display panels, AU Optronics Corporation, and Sichuan Changhong Electric Company propose establishing a TFT-LCD module production plant joint venture in Gaoxing district, Mianyang City, Sichuan.

The State Administration for Industry and Commerce reports that in the first quarter of 2009 a total of 584 business bribery cases were uncovered, which was a decrease of 1.18% over the same period last year.

U.S.-based consulting and outsourcing services company Amerson is setting up a global delivery center in Chengdu, Sichuan.

Oshkosh Corporation has broken ground for a new manufacturing facility in Tianjin to produce JLG access equipment specifically for the Asian market.

After inspecting Qingchuan and Guangyuan in Sichuan Province for three days, more than 40 companies from Zhejiang Province have decided to donate CNY20.8 million for nine schools, and signed four letters of intent for investment projects totaling CNY400 million.

A waste cathode ray tube televisions recycling line will be opened by Sichuan Changhong in 2008, and Changhong hopes it will be the largest waste home appliances recycling base in west China — via technology development and industrial investment.

The Mianzhu City factory of Jiannanchun Group, a key alcohol manufacturer in China, has been shut down because of the earthquake in Wenchuan, Sichuan Province.

Zhong Shanshan, president of Nongfu Spring, told First Financial Daily that to support the earthquake relief of the disaster areas in Sichuan, Nongfu Spring will invest RMB300 million to build a mineral water factory in these areas.

Heart to Heart International Inc. and FedEx Express have delivered the first private airlift of relief supplies to China following a massive earthquake in Sichuan Province.