Fili’s world

The Israeli Ministry of Industry Trade and Labor has an interesting website on the business relations between Israel and China.

Israel’s Trade Mission to China is a professional unit of the Foreign Trade Administration in the Israeli Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, which was established in order to promote, enhance and facilitate the economic and trade cooperation between Israel and China. The Trade Mission is responsible for Trade policy issues, such us economic & trade agreements and trade barriers, and Trade promotion, such as business information, business seminars and delegations, exhibitions, meeting scheduling and other tailor made services that are aimed to promote bilateral trade.

In this website you can find information about the Chinese economy, doing business in China, business overviews of various sectors, business opportunities, upcoming events and more. You can also subscribe online to one of our professional newsletters to receive periodical news and updates of various sectors in China.

One of the services this site provides is a bi-weekly newsletter with the latest news about the Chinese economy and the China-Israel relations. This evening I received a new newsletter, with headlines like - "U.S. files trade complaint against China with the WTO" ; "MOFCOM will issue regulation to supervise foreign merging activities" ; "China set to become biggest exporter in 2008" ; "China’s increases its R&D Spending in 2006 to 1.4% of GDP" etc. This newsletter also included news about the Israel-China Bilateral Relations :

Comsys to Demonstrate EGGware Solution on Datang COMIP PRO Processor at 3GSM Barcelona
Comsys Communication and Signal Processing, a leader in mobile wireless baseband solutions, will demonstrate at next week’s 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona its EGGware(TM) baseband IP core for GSM/GPRS implemented by Datang Microelectronics on the COMIP PRO(TM) baseband chip. Datang Microelectronics Technologies’ Co. Ltd. (DMT) is a leading chip manufacturer in China, and has selected Comsys’ GSM/GPRS full Layer 1 software baseband IP platform for its COMIP PRO cellular baseband product line. The live demonstration on the Comsys stand (number 2B73 in Hall 2) at 3GSM will show a GSM/GPRS live network session with a Datang COMIP PRO baseband chip that has been designed using the Comsys physical layer (PHY). (Feb 6, Yahoo)

NICE Receives 7-digit Order from China Ministry of Railway
NICE Systems, a global provider of advanced solutions that enable organizations to extract Insight from Interactions™ to drive performance, announced that it has received an initial 7-digit order for its advanced video content analysis solutions to ensure the security of hundreds of thousands of passengers on Qing Zang rail – the railroad connecting Lhasa in Tibet to Germu in Qinghai – from the Ministry of Railway in China. After an extensive review of various solutions providers, NICE has proven its ability to provide a solution that can operate efficiently even in very challenging conditions such as very low temperatures and under extremely low air pressure. (Feb 5)

I find this newsletter to be a very good summary, and I often find myself looking up news summaries that I’ve found there. The website has some other very valuable information for the Israelis (and other foreigners) interested in doing business with China.

(BTW - the site was built by Dror Poleg of Drorism, The Wok and the one who built Danwei. Go Dror.)