After the EU, the US, Australia and others have imposed restrictions to phase out incandescent light bulbs, it’s reported that China is in the process of making the roadmap for banning the use of these bulbs. The restriction is expected to be unveiled in March. According to Wang Jinsui, director general of China Illuminating Engineering Society, said in China Business News, "The National Development and Reform Commission has been drafting the map."

InvenLux Optoelectronics (China) has ordered Jordan Valley Semiconductors (JVS)’ QC3 HRXRD tool which is designed to provide characterization for GaAs, InP, Si and GaN (thick buffers) for HB-LED manufacturing industry.

Great Wall Technology’s subsidiary, Shenzhen Kaifa Technology, has been aligned with Epistar JV Holding, Evertop (Fujian) Optoelectronics and Country Lighting to jointly set up a joint venture (JV) KFES Lighting Co., Ltd., which will engaged in the research, manufacture and sale of LED wafer, chips, source modules, light source and lighting with a registered capital of $120 million and total investment amount of $160 million.

Industry sources noted china’s LED industry would install 700-800 units of MOCVD equipment in 2011 compared to 330 units installed in 2010, which may take China's LED industry to catch up with Taiwan. It’s reported that a Chinese LED maker had booked about 400-500 MOCVD machines to Germany-based Aixtron, with the shipment’s delivery lead time pushed to 3Q11.

China company BYD Co., Ltd (BYD) has prepared to present their "Three Green Dreams" Strategy at the 2011 North America International Auto Show (NAIAS) from January 10th to 23rd. It’s BYD's fourth consecutive appearance at the Detroit COBO Center for the Auto Show.

It’s said that China's Fujian provincial government planed to invest CNY20-30 billion (US$3.01-4.51 billion) to develop the public LED lighting market over the next five years, and jointly set up a publicly traded company with Taiwan-based LED companies. Fujian provincial government expected to install 300,000 LED street lamps in 2011, 600,000 in 2012 and up to 1-2 million in 2013. It’s estimated that the total LED street lamp market would reach 5-6 million units in Fujian.

Chinese company, Elec-Tech International Co Ltd, which specializes in the development, manufacturing and sales of household appliances, has decided to invest RMB 320 million to a subsidiary Dalian Elec-Tech Photovoltaic Co that mainly engaged in designing, producing and selling LED chips and other LED products.

China's central government held its first-ever open tender for LED products in November. 28 Chinese-funded companies have won the bid, and many of them have promised to use Epistar's crystalline grains, which means that Epistar grasped the opportunity to join the government-funded green light projects.

Recently, it’s reportedly Yangzhou of Jiangsu Province would end procurement subsidization for MOCVD equipment in July of 2011. Epitaxial wafer plants registered after the date would no longer receive the subsidy of CNY10 million (US$1.5 million) per MOCVD machine. Yangzhou city officials indicated that Yangzhou currently had 20,000 LED street lamps and would rise to 30,000 units in April of 2011. The city government was looking to adjust the 33% subsidy for LED street lamp installation cost.

Based on the potential 500 billion yuan (NT$2.3 trillion) opportunity in China's next five-year development plan which includes upgrading the LED industry as one of its major goals, a Taiwanese LED street lamp alliance has signed a letter of intent with a Taiwan affairs task force under China's Fujian provincial government to set up a world-class LED lighting company.  

Jiangsu Canyang Optoelectronics Co. Officially Starts Production and On-site Facility; Expected to Produce 50 Sets of Equipment in 2011

Toshiba reportedly planed to sell two million LCD TVs in the China market in the fiscal year of 2011 ended March 2012, which was four times its current target for 2010 fiscal year ended March 2011. In order to achieve the aim, the company would introduce a broad line-up of nine series and a total of 24 models, including high value added TVs.

With strong support from China’s government in several LED street lighting projects, the LED lighting market holds tremendous business potential in the country and abroad. At the 7th China International Exhibition And Forum on Solid State Lighting (CHINA SSL 2010), LEDinside recently interviewed William Lee, President of the leading LED lighting company Kingsun Optoelectronics Co., Ltd, to learn about the company’s production capacity and the progress of LED street light standards.

It’s reported that Lenovo would focused on a larger proportion of shipments of 13.3-inch super-slim models for its notebooks in 2011. Industry source noted, Asia Pacific was Lenovo's most important market, in which 13.3-inch LED-backlit notebook was popular in the family market. In early December, the panle price for a 13.3-inch LED-backlit notebook panel was US$46-50 while it’s for 14-inch and 15.6-inch models was US$39-44 and US$40-45.

GE Lighting Solutions announced it would create 50 jobs in Cleveland and give the city $150,000 a year during the proposed 10-year contract in exchange for the right to sell the city LEDs.

With the development of 3D, local vendors in china have been actively developing more competitive high-end products, and LED-backlit LCD TVs revenues were expected to exceed CCFL-backlit models revenues during the New Year sales in 2011.

The LCD monitor market in China in 2010 was expected to reach 30 million, and LED-backlit models were expected to account for 25% of the market at the end of 2010 due to strong demand. Chimei was reported that it emphasized to develop the China market and aimed for revenues from overseas markets to reach 30% of total revenues in 2011, together with Foxconn Electronics’ channel retailers.

Lattice Power Corporation announced a $55.5 million new financing led by IFC, a member of the World Bank Group. The signing ceremony was held at China World Hotel in Beijing on December 8th, 2010. Mr. Junqing Chen, Acting Mayor of Nanchang, Mr. Xiantang Meng, National Development and Reform Commission deputy director of high-tech industry, Mr. Hyun-Chan Cho, Country Manager of China & Mongolia of IFC, Mr. Alex Pan, Managing Director of GSR Ventures, and Mr. Sonny Wu, Chairman and CEO of Lattice Power attended the ceremony.

Chinese venture capital firm ,WI Harper Group, announced that SemiLEDs made its 5.3 million shares of initial public offering on the Nasdaq Global Market exchange with the ticker symbol of LEDS. SemiLEDs’ initial public offering was priced at $17 each, and increased 52% in value on opening day. SemiLEDs posted a profit of $10.8 million for the year ending August 31, 2010 based on $35.8 million in revenue.

According to a report from China Daily, the mainland's first company Visionox which manufactures OLED panels and Tsinghua University have jointly made up a research team to develop a proprietary technology to prolong the life time of OLED.

Chinese conglomerate Jin Hui Holdings have developed a partnership with LED International joint venture Strongbase New Shenzhen for energy saving solutions. According to an energy management contract, the JV will complete the installation of LED energy saving light bulbs. Strongbase New Shenzhen is a JV between LED's wholly-owned subsidiary, LED International Energy Conservation Holdings, and So Hing Chung, Ip Po Kwong, Hui Shun and Yung Chiu Hong.

Walsin Lihwa , supplier of electrical wires and cables from Taiwan, has officially starting its US$200 million LED-production project in its LED venture in Xian of mainland China, to tap into mainland China`s LED-lighting market. Reportedly, it will start tooling the venture by the end of 2010 and begin mass production in the first half of 2011.

Reportedly, Dongguan Kingsun Optoelectronics Co. Ltd recently completed the retrofit of high-pressure sodium lamps and light fixtures with 98W LUXEON LED based luminaires from Philips Lumileds on Dongjiang Main Road in Dongguan City, China.

Taiwan LED chipmaker Epistar has teamed up with China Electronics Corp (CEC), one of China’s state-owned conglomerates, to set up a joint venture, aiming at tapping into an expected boom in demand for LEDs across the Strait.

On December 1,  China new flat-panel TV energy efficiency standards was carried out, which contained three level standards: level one for most efficient products; level two for products that meet the lowest requirements for being labeled energy-efficiency products; and level three for products meeting the minimum requirements for being allowed on the market. It’s estimated that would stimulate more price-cut promotion on products that did not meet the standard.

GT Solar has acquired its first two orders totaling more than $84 million for sapphire crystallization systems from Jiangsu Jixing New Material Co., Ltd and Jiujiang Sapphire Tech Co., Ltd. Total annual production capacity of the two orders is approximately eight million two-inch equivalents (TIE) of sapphire substrates. The two orders represent GT Solar's entry into the LED equipment market, which GT Solar stated it would pursue when it announced its acquisition of Crystal Systems in July of 2010.

LED chip maker Formosa Epitaxy and chip packaging house Unity Opto Technology would direct their focus to China's TV market for future growth, affected from South Korea TV vendors raising their own LED capacity.

Investments to support electronics in China exceed EUR 50 million in 2010 Linde LienHwa (LLH) today announced a further strengthening of its commitment to the needs of LED manufacturing with the establishment of an ultra high-purity Ammonia plant in Xiamen City, south-eastern China. This is the first operating plant in China to produce ultra high-purity Ammonia and will supply customers using world leading technology in purification, packaging and analytical metrology. Linde LienHwa (LLH) is a joint venture between The Linde Group and LienHwa MiTAC Group of Taiwan.

AIXTRON AG today announced a new order for MOCVD reactors from LED power chip expert and existing customer Aqualite Co. Ltd. The order comprises six CRIUS 31x2-inch configuration deposition systems. The China based company placed the order during the second quarter of 2010 and after delivery of the systems in the current quarter, they will be used for high-power LED production.

It is the update version of the traditional 2-wire LED rope light, and it can be sold in containers.