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If the invasion of markets by inexpensive Chinese mobile phones made companies and governments sit up worldwide, wait till this month-end when a company in Wuxi in the Yangtze river delta starts churning out C7, China's answer to the Apple iPad.The C7 tablet is from Cynovo, a company founded in Silicon Valley in 2007 and registered in Wuxi a year later. Headed by Henry Chen and Bill Wu who returned from Silicon Valley, Cynovo specialises in the next generation of Mobile Internet Device (MID) platform design.Speaking to reporters from South Asia and South East Asia who are in China to report on the Expo 2010 Shanghai, Henry Chen said the C7 would be launched sometime later this year. Displaying a prototype, he said manufacturing work was due to begin later this month.He wouldn't go into the details of the C7 pricing, but said "let me assure you it will be very competitive". "We respect Apple, but we too have a very good product — we will work hard to turn this area into our Silicon Valley," Chen said.The C7 operating system of choice is Windows 7 and the specifications disclosed so far appear to be competitive: Intel Atom (1.1-1.6 GHz) CPU, 1-2 GB memory and upgradable, 3G, Wi-Fi and GPS.Wuxi and Changzhou, the new boomtowns near Shanghai, are located in the Jiangsu province with Nanjing as its capital. In the next five years, Wuxi hopes to attract 1,000 overseas professionals. Powering its growth are new and hi-tech industries. Sensor network, new materials, software and service outsourcing constitute thrust areas.Also in Wuxi is Suntech Power Holdings. Listed on the NYSE, it is the largest crystalline silicon photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturer. It has provided the grid connection of two solar systems on the China Pavilion and the Theme Pavilion at the Expo in Shanghai.Suntech designs, manufactures and markets high-output, cost-effective solar products for electric power applications in residential, commercial, industrial and public utility sectors.In Changzhou, the KTK Group, which has specialised in manufacturing railway transportation equipment, is keen to cooperate with India."We want them to come to the KTK Group. Indian companies had approached us in early April — we will provide the same quality as the Europeans but at half the price," said KTK chairman Yu Jin Kun.Founded in 1988, the KTK Group has expanded and diversified with over 20 subsidiaries now engaged in machinery, electronics, new energy materials and nuclear equipment to name a few. "Science and technology are primary productive forces. As an enterprise, only scientific and technological progress can continue and make you invincible," the KTK chief said.Changzhou also has a Science and Education Town with over 76,000 students in five higher vocational education institutes and one undergraduate university. The town plans to achieve the "3211 goals" in the next three to five years — attract 30,000 S&T professionals, introduce 200 R&D institutions, incubate 1,000 hi-tech enterprises and enroll 100,000 students.
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