Article: China Focus: Export-oriented Taiwan business seeks breakthrough in mainland amid global downturn

China Focus: Export-oriented Taiwan business seeks breakthrough in mainland amid global downturn

BEIJING, May 9 (Xinhua) -- As orders from North America and Europe shrink amid the global downturn, many Taiwan businesses are restructuring their strategies and the mainland market is moving up in their agenda.

Tu Chi-bing is running an aluminium alloy plate factory for the Taiwan-based bicycle company Giant in Kunshan city of eastern Jiangsu Province, which produces 40,000 tonnes of plates annually.

While a large portion of the products is sold to developed countries, he found that business potential in the mainland's commercial aircraft industry has just taken off.

The mainland has ...

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