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The news on a knock-off IKEA store in Kunming has recevied quite a lot of feedback. While the Chinese retailers has already hijack the shopping experience of the swiss’ company, now we take a in-depth look on how those fake IKEA furnitures are made. Strictly speaking, the production factory was well-equipped, with their own grinding department, advanced paintshop and fabric workshop, we believe the quality of those fake furnitures are up to some standard. The price of these fake IKEA furnitures are not cheap compare to the real one. Meanwhile, IKEA has 9 stores in China, which located mainly at first and second-tier cities. IKEA might need to reconsider their marketing strategy to compete with those knock-off retailers which hiding at other smaller cities of China.
The incident was happened in Wuhan, a populous city in central China. A Canada tourist was trying to buy the train ticket while he was asked to show his passport first, to verify his identity. Any passengers who want to ride trains in China will find themselves having to pay attention to a new ticketing system adopted by the railway authorities. A real-name ticket sales system aims to make buying a ticket more convenient and fair, and fighting against ticket-scalping. Nevertheless, the new rule has made some western tourist to be in a maze. The candid video was uploaded to internet about a month ago, and it has already been pulled down from various video hosting sites in China. We are a little bit late for this one, but the video is still worth to share it around ! Click in and enjoy !
Rather than having the first aircraft carrier sets for sea trial, China has another carrier that turned into a hotel. This could be seen at the Tianjin Binhai Aircraft Carrier Theme Park, is also bought from Soviet. But perhaps this ship is not old for military, so it has been transformed.
Nokia is currently the leading smartphone vendor in China, but can it maintain the title? Experts are expecting to see a “drastic realignment” in the coming months as Apple expands to new carrier partners, so what that mean is distributors are not likely to import Nokia’s smartphones to put on their shelve. What cause the problem? What makes the giant now a loser? Tell you after the break…
UPDATE: Nokia said the Chinese vendors have great confidence on us, we are not eliminated.
Maybe you were out enjoying the summer weather this week and couldn’t check your favorite Chinese tech sites. Or maybe you’re spending all your time telling your geeky friends about the new high resolution renders of Apple’s next “spaceship” campus. Well, we’ve got you covered, here are the most interesting Chinese tech news of the week.
There’s a recycling center in Tieling, Liaoning Province, China, where old electrical goods are dismantled. Or you can take a deeper look at another China e-waste recycling factory we introduced previously. [Wall Street Journal]
The Chinese government will force high speed rail operators to reduce average operating speeds due to safety concerns following a two-train collision that killed 40 people an injured around 200 more last month. Trains with a top design speed of 350 kilometers per hour will be lowered to 300 km/h, and the trains designed to run up to 250 km/h will operate at 200 km/h. The rails whose speed was previously raised to 200 km/h will be scaled down to 160 km/h. Ticket prices will also be reduced, due to the high price to ride and the lack of people riding …
There were alot ’sexy dancing’ happened in China, if you can recall the Chinese Miss pole showing off in subway that we have reported last year. Now we have a female dance instructor demonstrating a very ’sexy dance’ for her student, teaching them how to use exotic dance to please their boyfriend. The video was uploaded to youku ( China youtube-like video hosting site ) about 20 days ago and has received nearly 2 million hits and over 2 thousand comments. A must watch video for all tech enthusiasts if you want your girlfriend to please you in this way ! Click in and enjoy !
Window Phone 7’s users in China reportedly are having difficulty accessing Marketplace in the past few days. Do you have the same problem? Check out what is going on after the break.
Here are the Chinese tech and gadget news you might have missed this week ( we have missed those news too … ), enjoy !
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