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provider of Internet-related, information technology professional services and software products in China. The Company provides network solutions for large Internet and telecommunications projects and delivers Internet infrastructure solutions such as backbone and access networks. They went IPO on 3/2/2000 and offered $120 million at $24.00 (opening at $93) and closed first day of trading at $99.56. Lead underwriter is Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and co-managers are Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Please see its S-1, S-1A, S-1A forms.

produces of resins and plastics, as well as ethylene.

is the developer of the Chinese Linux operating system, named Bluepoint which controls approximately 80 percent of the Chinese Linux bundling market and is preinstalled by several major computer manufacturers in China.

own a 51% interest in Shenyang JinBei Passenger Vehicle Manufacturing Company, Ltd. (Shenyang Automotive), which products are the Deluxe Minibus, the Mid-priced Minibus and the Standard Minibus. The Deluxe and Mid-priced Minibuses are 8- to 15-seat minibuses adapted from Toyota's Hi-ace minibus, while the Standard Minibus is an 11-seat, domestically designed vehicle. This is the first company who went pulic in New York (1992/10/9).
Its ousted chief is YANG Rong who was ranked by Forbes magazine in 2001 as China's third richest man with wealth of US$840 million.

the primary air carrier serving Shanghai, China's eastern gateway. CEA primarily provides domestic, Hong Kong, and international passenger and cargo airline services. 

China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) is a China's State oil company incorporated on February 15,1982，with approval from State Council.

provides commercial airline services throughout China, the Hong Kong and Macau regions, Southeast Asia and other parts of the world. 

went IPO on 6/21/2000 at price $19.99 (opening at $22.00 and closed first day of tradingat $22.38) offering of $4.9 billion. Lead underwriters are Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and China International Capital Corp. One of the top 10 market cap companies in Hong Kong stock market.

Beijing ELawChina Network Technology Co. Ltd merged with Beach Couch Inc. The site provides foreign legal firms will full access to the Chinese legal profession and Chinese law.  It plans to sell the subscription service to all foreign law firms whose clients deal in the Chinese market. It went public by acquisition of California Beach Couch, Inc. for the total sum of $5,000 on April 26, 2000.

the company led by infamous Yang Bin.

A applications software provider that targets both business and government clients across China. It went public by reverse merge with Natural Way Technologies Inc on April 7, 2000.

A software developer and applications service provider that runs a software auction site Softhouse.com.cn. It went public by reverse merge with YNOT on November 15, 1999 and its stock soared 2000% in first ten days.

develop, construct, own and operate large coal-fired power plants throughout China Its Chairman Li Xiopeng is China's state leader Li Peng's son.

Originally just another all-purpose "where's the beef" Web site design shop, Intermost has recently made some strong moves in the B2B marketplace backed by the Hong Kong property giant Sun Hung Kai. They operates www.ChinaE.com.

production of petroleum products, petrochemical and organic chemical products, dyestuff and dye intermediates, synthetic rubber, chemical fertilizers and other chemical products.

one of China's largest PC maker.

went IPO on 6/30/2000. The IPO price was $15.5 and total shares are 4.5 million offering $69.75 million (ADR). Opening at US$15.31, it closed first day of trading at US$12.13.Merrill Lynch & Co. was leader underwriter, and Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown was co-mamanger.

Chinese home electronic appliance firm.

is engaged in many petroleum related activities including the exploration, development and production of crude oil and natural gas.

engaged in the manufacturing and sales of telecommunication terminals and equipment, including corded and cordless telephones sets, in China under the trademark of Qiao Xing. It claims to has a CDMA model in the wings.

a highly integrated petrochemical complex which processes crude oil into synthetic fibers, resins and plastics, petrochemicals and petroleum products.

went IPO on 4/13/2000. Opening at $17.75, it closed first day of trading at $20.69 after pricing at $17 by offering 4 million shares worth of US$68 million. The lead underwriters were Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, China International Capital Corp, co-managers were Chase H&Q and Robertson Stephens. Please see its S-8 form.

an Internet portal in China exclusively targeting mainland China Internet market since inception. It went public on 7/12/2000 offering 4.6 million shares worth of US$59.8 million at price US$13. Leader underwriter was Credit Suisse First Boston, co-managers were Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Warburg Dilon Read.  Please see its S-1 and S-1A forms.

A subsidiary of state-owned mainland China enterprise TCL Holdings, the Hong Kong-traded TCL Intl is getting into the PC and mobile telephone manufacturing business.

A company with a confusing corporate structure but a clear mandate: to make educational software for China's 800,000 schools and 300 million schoolchildren.

is a medium-duty diesel engine manufacturer in China, and also produces diesel power generators and diesel engine parts. The Company primarily manufactures and sells diesel engines for medium-duty trucks in China.

Zheda Lande Scitech Limited, formerly known as Hangzhou Land Electronic &Information Technology Co., Ltd, a software company authorized by Information Industry Department of Zhejiang province, is a professional telecom software supplier.

a Hong Kong ICP.

a pan-Asia Internet company that provides a integrated platform for premium branded media publishing, online advertising sales and e-commerce. They went IPO on 4/12/2000 and closed first day of trading at $11 after pricing at $14 and opening at $14.06 offering $70 million.

Asia Fiber Holdings Limited is the holding company for Far Beyond Investments Limited that owns a 70% equity interest in Asibao. Asibao manufactures and sells polyester fiber products. Asibao was established as a Sino-foreign joint venture company in China between Heilongjaing Longdi Group Co. Limited and Far Beyond. This former rubber products manufacture now builds highways and runs a toll road in Hangzhou.

The company is all over the map with high tech deals including a new JV with a former music cassette duplicator in mainland China [ahem] to make CDs and DVDs.

an independent providers of semiconductor assembly and testing services. It went public on 7/10/2000 and offering 20 million shares worth US$240 million at US$12/share. It opened at US$12 and closed first day of trading at US$11.

(Chinese name: Chang Jiang Shi Ye), its chairman is Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong's most powerful tycoon.

formerly known as China.com Corporation, is a pan-Asian Internet company built on an integrated operating and investment business model. They invest in synergistic Internet companies throughout the Asia-Pacific region that add value and depth to its services and portal channels. They went IPO on 7/12/99 at price $20 offering $96 million. Lead underwriter is Lehman Brothers and co-managers are Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. and E*Trade Securities.

A turnkey plastics factory maker turned Internet company.

incorporated in Hong Kong on 3 September 1997, and listed its ordinary shares on the New York Stock Exchange and the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong on 22 October 1997 and 23 October 1997, respectively.

China Resources Development, Inc. is a holding company that controls a 61% interest in HARC, a limited liability joint stock company organized in China. HARC markets and distributes natural rubber and rubber products produced by the Hainan State Farms and non-state farms in China. Its stock soars to ridiculous heights for one day every time there is good US-China trade news.

A construction company whose stock jumped from 1 to 36 on its claim to have exclusive rights to develop broadband Internet and cable TV networks in Sichuan Province.

is a provider of cellular telecommunications services in Guangdong, Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces in Mainland China.

is a commerce service provider (CSP) engaged in Web-based transactions by providing outsourcing services for an integrated e-Commerce solution to extend business to the Internet.

(Chinese name: Guang Da)

(Chinese name: He Ji Huang Pu), is a 49.9%-owned affiliate of Li Ka-shing's Cheung Kong, and its chairman is Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong's most powerful tycoon.

a spin-off from ChinaS.com.

co-founded by chinadotcom co-founder Peter Yip's son Antony, a Geocities-style cyber-community site offering web hosting, free e-mail, chat forums, and classifieds. Renren got its first round $5.5 million financing from the U.S. venture capital firm J.H. Whitney. RenRen Media Ltd started trade in Hong Kong stock market by buying a shell company Ankor Group on 5/22/2000.

Led by Richard Li, son of Li Ka-shing, PCCW is involved primarily in technology businesses related to the Internet and the delivery of broadband ISP-enabling services and technologies to local access operators through an innovative system for satellite-to-broadband ground distribution. CyberWorks Ventures, its venture capital subsidiary, is one of the foremost developers of Internet businesses in the world. CyberWorks Ventures invests in, incubates and operates these businesses. 

It invested a total of $26 million within the past year, acquiring stakes in ChinaWeb, Stockhouse Media, Strongnet.com, NextEd, Realistix and Freei Networks.

Skyworth (Group) Company Limited is the largest manufacturer and exporter engaged in Design, Developing, Manufacturing and exporting of Video Consumer Electronics Products to all over the world.

(formerly Leung Kee Holdings Limited), provides construction services. Other activities of the group include securities trading, property investment and investment holding.  The Chinese TV anchor Yang Lan is the Chairperson. After leaving Phoenix Satellite Television at the beginning of 2000, Yang joined with Gao Zhenshun, chairman of Universal Appliances, to buy 3 billion new and preferred shares of Orcades Holdings Ltd. for HK$86 million (US$11.1 million). Yang Lan invested HK$40 million (US$4.87 million) in the project. Orcades was a publicly traded company in Hong Kong engaged in the building industry, but after Lan and Gao purchased a 78.4 percent stake in the company, they changed its name to Sun Television Cybernetworks Co..

SUNeVision harnesses the existing strengths of Sun Hung Kai Properties' principal technology assets - iAdvantage, Super-Office, SuperHome.net, Propertystreet.net, Insurancestreet.net, Bankingstreet.net, Red-Dots, Sun Technologies, iHon and venture capital investments.

a publicly-traded incubator in Hong Kong, provides technology companies and entrepreneurs with a value-added set of services and advice that accelerates their growth and development. One of its investors is Dell Ventures.

An Internet play by Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, a "mega portal" that went IPO last February with no track record and no business plan -- and broke all records.

This Internet telephony company, specializing in China traffic, got a boost from an Intel investment in March.

is a provider of broadband internet access services through the cable television infrastructure in Taiwan. 

The Sydney, Australia telecommunications company is in a joint venture partnership with Xinhua News Services to develop a leading ISP and portal in China.

An Australian company building a network of Internet, Intranet, and e-commerce networks through joint ventures in China.

Publisher of English as a Second Language materials signed a 10-year co-publishing contract with a leading university press in China.

An Internet service provider offering broad services in connectivity, content, e-mail and messaging services targeting Chinese-speaking markets of the world.

A Canadian company forming a joint venture in Guangdong Province to provide high speed Internet service and voice telephony service.

A three-year-old wireless telecom company that opened for business in China last year.

A Vancouver-based mainland Chinese Internet service provider and domain name registry; a contract with Sina.com in Beijing is boosting Xinnet's client base.

specializes in language processing technology, operates out of Hong Kong, San Francisco, the United States, Beijing, China and Calgary, Canada. They license its Chinese character input software to all manner of Chinese electronic device manufacturer. 

An Internet interface provider using "avatars" [moving cartoon characters] for community and chat groups, Avaterra is developing a China-specific interface with M-Web China.

The company has contracts to distribute U.S. brand soft drinks in China and is also seeking to create an Internet media network in major markets in China.

CBCom was organized in the State of Delaware on April 23rd, 1997. With offices in Beijing, a staff with local expertise, and strong local partners possessing ownership interest, CBCom's strategic partner, Far East, has committed to provide invaluable assistance in our China operations as well as introductions to senior business and government officials in exchange for a significant ownership stake. 

The company whose joint venture with PRC-based ChinaSoft plans to market software in China and the U.S.

formerly China Peregrine Food Corp., is engaged in the processing, marketing and distribution of food and dairy products in China. It owned controlling equity interests in two Sino-American joint ventures in China; in Hangzhou, China, a 52% interest in Hangzhou Meilijian Dairy Products Company, Ltd. (Meilijian) and in Shanghai, China, a 70% interest in Green Food Peregrine Children's Food Company, Ltd. (GFP). It runs a B2B food portal that attempts to streamline the food distribution system in China.

CXN Media Corporation is a provider of business, economic and financial news on the People's Republic of China. Under a new agreement with its partner CEINet, CXN will be providing custom market research to clients seeking market research and business intelligence in meeting their need for new insight in order to confirm or refine market strategies for the PRC. They also associates with  na-investor.com. They are the exclusive distributor of the State Information Center named the China Economic Information Network (CEInet).

US-China Industrial Exchange Inc. provides United States, European and other manufacturers of health care products with access to the Chinese marketplace.

A handwriting recognition software company that serves Asian markets through a Chinese joint venture.

The company makes a rugged, pickup-truck-like utility vehicle for US$7,000 and says China is its future.

A Texas oil-and-gas company turned e-business with various joint ventures in China.

Another would-be incubator investing in Internet service providers including a $3.7 million stake in Colorado-based SUMmedia.com.

The company provides equipment to convert rare earth minerals in the Baiyuenbo Mines of Inner Mongolia into battery materials. The mines are thought to contain up to half the world's known rare earth mineral deposits.

This multimedia software designer has proven to be a survivor in the U.S. and is doing some imaginative deals in China.

eVision USA.Com, Inc. is an integrated online solutions provider. The Company operates through several subsidiaries which include American Fronteer Financial Corp, a securities broker/dealer and Corporate Net Solutions, a technology infrastructure solutions provider. eVision also provides services through five divisions: eFinance, eServices, eCommunications, eInformation and eMedical.

GraphOn Corporation develops, markets, sells and supports server-based software for the enterprise computing environment. This "thin client" software developer, aiming at the vast China school market, makes programs that allow users of old PC's to access high-powered computer applications.

This online auctioneers Chinese-language cybermall and auction Web site (www.iAtoZ.com), sells mobile telephones and other popular items direct to consumers. 

A China-focused Internet holding company with online finance, web portal, wireless and other projects.

is a provider of Internet telephony services that enable telecommunications carriers and other communications service providers to offer international voice, fax and other value-added applications over the Internet. Robertson Stephens, the investment bank, recently forecast 25% quarterly growth for the company based on increase demand in China.

The company makes software to deliver motion pictures, moving pictures, and other visual content over the Internet. The company opened a Beijing office in May and said it expected China's Internet picture market to grow explosively.

The company bills itself as a "pure China play" with joint venture investments in more than a dozen utility companies ranging from water filtration and gas providers to Internet and telecommunications companies.

A "lifestyle" Internet content provider in emerging markets, primarily China, using a proprietary set-top box as the main distribution channel.

offers diversified Internet services, content, and solutions through its China subsidiary, Beijing QinNet Electronic Technologies Co., Ltd.

provides information technology solutions to the travel and transportation industries by its its electronic distribution of travel through its SABRE computer reservations system. Sabre is working on a $10 million project with China Southern Airlines.

A telecommunications company that operates via licenses in China; it's share price soared in early 2000 on a series of supposedly exclusive agreements signed with top Chinese companies.

previously engaged in the marketing and sale of powdered metals, an amorphous incubator/holding company of Internet and telecom companies in China and New York City, and a prodigious producer of press releases.

A tire recycling company in negotiations with the Chinese government to manufacture and distribute its proprietary system throughout China.

A telecommunications and real estate company formed in April 2000 with plans to develop the "tele-housing" business in China.

provides communications equipment for service providers that operate wireless and wireline networks in rapidly growing communications markets. To date, substantially all of the Company's sales have been to service providers in China. 

The company owns and operates three online casinos, including AsiaCasino.com.

A former Duty Free Shopper executive is attempting to build a chain of multilingual B2C and B2B sites offering shopping, travel services, online gambling, and public sector procurement services. They operate TheChinaBridge.com (Chinese Shopping Mall), Thepostmaster.net, www.globalfare.com, and Ccpsoftware.com.

is a provider of Internet access and related Internet development of on-line and multimedia products and services. 

A IP systems specialist landed a licensing agreement in April for software to be used in one of China's first IP telephony systems.

by CBS Market Watch.

by Hoovers.com.