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CHINA
 
RETAIL MARKET
 
Mergers & Acquisitions (“M&A”) is transforming China’s once closed retail sector. Deal activity has surged over the past two years as consolidation of the young modern retail trade has begun. The familiar global trend of rapid chain formation to achieve stronger buying power over suppliers has been established, and M&A is the tool by which retailers are rapidly linking once fragmented regional markets. This irreversible trend provides a multitude of investment opportunities for multinational and domestic corporate and private equity investors.
 
Domestic players are rapidly building scale in a competitive land-grab to acquire the best local assets to form national chains, and the thirst for capital this creates is generating opportunities for private equity investors and foreign corporate. Multinational retailers now enjoy unprecedented freedom to operate but those who entered during the period when the industry was heavily regulated have legacy issues to deal with such as buying out Chinese partners and integrating operations. New entrants have the option to make outright acquisitions of existing retailers or establish their own domestic sales network.

 
 
 KEY STATISTICS
 
Output of Major Industrial Products

Item
 		 Unit
 		 Jan to Aug 2006
Bicycles 10 '000 Unit 4214.81
Color television sets 10 '000 Unit 5391.87
Radios 10 '000 Unit 3933.28
Household washing machines 10 '000 Unit 1807.48
Chemical fibres 10,000 tons 1300.54
    Synthetic fibres 10,000 tons 1194.08
    Viscose fibres 10,000 tons 94.08
Yarn 10,000 tons 1082.24
Cloth 100 million metres 280.73
    Pure cotton cloth 100 million metres 149.8
    Pure chemical cloth 100 million metres 77.14
Silk tons 86233.6
Knitting wool 10,000 tons 27.03
Clothing 10 '000 pieces 1062699.59
Sugar 10,000 tons 627.79
Salt 10,000 tons 3401.18
Cigarettes 10,000 cases 13689.96
Beer 10,000 tons 2512.34
Liquor (commodity) 10,000 tons 238.75
Total energy production 10,000 tons 126673.83
Coal 10,000 tons 130962.17
Dairy products 10,000 tons 933.79
Soft drinks 10,000 tons 2841.41
Crude oil 10,000 tons 12293.17
Refined crude oil 10,000 tons 19915.16
Gasoline 10,000 tons 3668.09
Kerosene 10,000 tons 647.93
Diesel fuel 10,000 tons 7665.25
Lubricating oil 10,000 tons 387.27
Fuel oil 10,000 tons 1468.65
Natural-gas 100 million cubic metres 384.46
Electricity 100 million kwh 17832.45
Pig iron 10,000 tons 26263.97
Steel 10,000 tons 27250.63
Rolled steel 10,000 tons 29895.75
Ferroalloy 10,000 tons 858.99
Chemical fertilizers 10,000 tons 3444.61
Chemical pesticides 10,000 tons 87.49
Paint 10,000 tons 213.71
Dyestuff 10,000 tons 82.14
Chemical medicines 10,000 tons 102.47
Outer tyres 10 thousand pieces 28038.25
Synthetic rubber 10,000 tons 122.77
Camera

10,000

 5124.97
Cement 10,000 tons 76228.77
Plate glass 10,000 cases 26079.93
Power generating equipment 10,000 kw 7058.61
Alternate motors 10,000 kw 9639.11
Metal-cutting machines 10 '000 Unit 35.94
Motor vehicles 10 '000 Unit 492.47
  Of which: trucks 10 '000 Unit 136.21
Large-medium tractors Unit 146526
Small tractors 10 '000 Unit 131.84
Locomotives 10,000 kw 691
Railway passenger coaches Unit 965
Railway freight wagons Unit 26461
Internal combustion engines 10,000 kw 29502.84
Electronic computers Unit 38342
Micro-electronic computers 10 '000 Unit 6051.53
Iron ore 10,000 tons 35044.48
Sulphur iron Ore 10,000 tons 725.93
Phosphorite Ore 10,000 tons 2469.78
Silk textiles 10,000 m 546574.37
Coke 10,000 tons 17740.82
Sulphuric acid 10,000 tons 3185.73
Concentrated Nitric Acid 10,000 tons 114.68
Caustic soda  10,000 tons 966.14
Soda ash 10,000 tons 1035.53
Synthetic ammonia 10,000 tons 3264.43
Nitrogenous fertilizer 10,000 tons 2524.65
Urea 10,000 tons 1449.92
Phosphoric fertilizer 10,000 tons 773.33
Potassic fertilizer 10,000 tons 146.36
Synthetic detergent 10,000 tons 354.7
Copper 10,000 tons 191.28
Lead 10,000 tons 171.11
Zinc 10,000 tons 197.47
Aluminum 10,000 tons 583.31
LPG 10,000 tons 1144.69
Aluminium oxide 10,000 tons 833.18
Aluminum products 10,000 tons 491.97
Copper products 10,000 tons 359.93
Steel ships for civil use 10,000 tons 698.19
Household refrigerator 10,000 units 3056.5
Freezers 10,000 units 565.75
Air conditioners 10,000 units 5777.06
Range Hoods 10,000 units 568.88
Carrier communication equipment unit 3754
Optical communicaiton equipment unit 221599
Program-controlled switchboard 10 '000 Unit 4518.9
Color Kinescope 10,000 units 5330
Facsimile machines 10,000 units 819.8
Mobile communicaiton equipment 10 '000 Unit 300
Semiconductor intergrated circuit  10 '000 Unit 2365680.27
Semiconductor intergrated circuit large scale 10 '000 Unit 714294.27
Video Recorders 10 '000 Unit 693.08
Hi-Fi 10 '000 Unit 3311.45
Duplicating machinery Unit 287.65
Thermal electricity 100 mil.kwh 14876.38
Hydropower 100 mil.kwh 2557.86
Plastic products 10,000 tons 1902.57
Dust Collectors 10 '000 Unit 3264.68
Electric cooker 10 '000 Unit 4886.7

 
Consumer Price Index and Retail Price Index by region
Same period last year=100

Aug 2006

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