China

Chinese Market Highlights:

• 91,000 printing and printing-related establishments 3.2 million employees
• Sales worth $71 billion
• 10% average annual growth rate in the past 5 years
• $1.6 billion printing equipment, supplies, and materials imports
• $614 million printing equipment, supplies, and materials exports
• The print market is forecast to grow at slightly under the rate of GDP growth, reaching a total of $65.9 billion by 2011.

In 1997, a joint venture between NPES and the Shanghai Printing Group Corporation (SOGC) gave rise to a unique institution: the U.S.-Sino Printing,Publishing and Converting Technologies Training Center. Today, the Center offers programs and extraordinary opportunities for U.S. printing equipment manufacturers and suppliers to expand their businesses successfully in China. The Center also provides Chinese printing and publishing industry professionals with a first-hand look at new technologies in operation, and hands-on training in how to put these technologies to work profitably. The Center houses NPES’ Market Representative Office in China, and administers two critically valuable commercial websites: the NPES E-Commerce web site at www.npes.com.cn, as well as the Center’s own website at www.meihu.com.cn. Both sites are dual language.

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Ya-Ping Zhou, NPES Greater China Project Director

Mr. Zhou is Founder and President of Zynet International Inc., a California-based global communications marketing company specializing in market development for the communications industry. He spearheaded the launch of the first true business-to-business dual language website servicing China and international graphic arts industries (www.npes.com.cn). Mr. Zhou has written comprehensive market research papers on the Chinese, U.S. and European Union communication industries. He has over 30 years of professsional, technical and business management experience in the graphic arts field.

Ya-Ping Zhou
NPES Greater China Project
Director
P.O. Box 81928,
San Diego, CA 92138-1928
Telephone: 619.238.4222
E-mail: npeszhou@aol.com