`2006 International Exhibition and Forum on Mobile Phone Industry' Opens to Build Complete Industry Chain

`2006 International Exhibition and Forum on Mobile Phone Industry' Opens to Build Complete Industry Chain

May 18, 2006

Innovation Brings Strides Forward and Integration Creates Business Opportunity

    TIANJIN, China, May 18 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ --
"2006 International Exhibition and Forum on Mobile
Phone Industry" will be unveiled in the Tianjin Binhai
International Conference and Exhibition Center on May 18.
The three-day exhibition will become the very largest
exhibition in China's mobile phone industry by attracting
not only general participation of organizations and
advanced companies at various links of the global mobile
phone industrial chain but also domestic and foreign
spectators and audience by diversified and in-depth
activities such as exhibitions and shows, summits and
forums, trade talks, online transactions and business
linkup.

    This exhibition, with the theme of "Build Complete
Mobile Phone Industrial Chain under New Environment and
Create Unlimited Business Opportunities", will be
attended by 343 manufacturers at the links of
custom-making, design, manufacture, sale, spare parts,
software and value-added service in the mobile phone
industrial chain, which include domestic and foreign
operators as China Mobile, SKY, manufacturers of mobile
phones as Motorola, Samsung, mobile phone design companies
as CEC Wireless, mainstream value-added mobile service
providers as Microsoft and Skynet and numerous
authoritative companies at various links of the mobile
phone industrial chain as BYD, Sharp, GE and BAK.

    Meanwhile, domestic and foreign government departments,
research institutes and industrial organizations in domestic
areas as Hebei, Shenszhen and Zhongguancun, Canadian,
Romanian and other foreign embassies in China, the
International GSM Association, IPC, China TD-SCDMA
Industrial Alliance will also enter their names for this
exhibition one after another. 

    Currently, our mobile phone industry is facing a
significant opportunity for developing from a big mobile
phone manufacturer to a strong manufacturer and from the
largest mobile phone market to the most valuable mobile
phone market in the world. Tianjin is always an important
mobile phone manufacture and production base in our
country, whose output accounts for 24% of the national
total. One of out four mobile phones in our country comes
from Tianjin. Tianjin could be referred to as the
"Capital of Mobile Phones". Tianjin is also an
important production base from the global perspective. Its
annual output accounts for 10% of the world total and
already has a world-class mobile phone production
capability. Nowadays, it has five bases for production of
mobile phone spare parts, such as base for plate-type
capacity-resistance component represented by Sumsang,
Panasonic and ROHM, integrate-circuits represented by
Freescale and SMIC, base for environment-friendly cells
represented by Lishen and Lantian Sanyo, base for
components represented by CTS and GE and base for injection
moulding represented by Yaguang Nypro.

    With the Binhai new Area of Tianjin included in the
national strategic development plan, the future development
of this area will become an excellent platform for the
development of the mobile phone industry and its soft and
hard environments will provide reliable assurance for the
rapid advance of the industry, which will truly exhibit the
competitive advantages of the mobile communication terminal
industry at the Bohai-rim area. 

    A number of greatly valuable high-level forums and
technical seminars will also be held during the exhibition
and representatives from government departments, operators,
dealers and manufacturers of mobile phones, manufacturers of
the spare parts and famous experts and scholars will conduct
in-depth discussions about the development trend of the
industry, custom-making of mobile phones in other
countries, development trend of the mobile phone
technology, application of value-added service, etc. 

    The successful holding of the "International
Exhibition and Forum on Mobile Phone Industry" will
make it the industrial event that is of the highest
standard and level, involves the most industrial links and
has the largest scale and the highest degree of
internationalization in China's mobile communication
industry. 

    About Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area
(TEDA)

    Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA)
was established in 1984 with the approval of the State
Council of the People's Republic of China.  It is one of
the first state-class economic-technological development
areas in the country. 

    TEDA is located in the center of a larger area
bordering Bohai Sea and the east of the Asia-Europe Land
Bridge, thus serving as the gate to the two super cities of
Beijing and Tianjin, and the throat connecting the northeast
of China.  By the end of 2005, 4,067 foreign companies have
landed in TEDA.  Of the Fortune 500 companies, 57
multinational companies, from 10 countries and regions,
including such well-established multinational giants as
Motorola, Samsung and Toyota, invested in 123 enterprises
in TEDA.  In 2000, "Fortune" listed TEDA as one
of the most highly recommended economic areas in China.  In
2002 UNIDO listed TEDA as one of the most dynamic areas of
China together with Shenzhen, Suzhou, Wenzhou, Shanghai
Pudong and Xi'an High-tech Park.

    For more information, please visit:
http://www.investteda.org .

    For more information, please contact:

     Ding Lei, TEDA
     Tel:  [phone]

     Xu Hui, TEDA
     Tel:  [phone]

SOURCE  Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area