Air-conditioners Exported to Japan for First TimeChina's air-conditioners have made breakthroughs recently, fighting their ways for the first time into the market of Japan, the "Kingdom of Household Appliances", with 30,000 air conditioners being shipped from Qingdao of China's Shandong Province to Nogoya of Japan.Japan, known as the household appliances "superpower", has a history of 50 years in air-conditioning R&D, and production and has the lion's share of the international air-conditioner market with such brands as Panasonic, Mitsubishi, Toshiba, Sharp, Hitachi, Sanyo. China has started the manufacture of air-conditioners since it imported the technology from Japan in the mid-1980s. The current 450 Chinese manufacturers of air-conditioners previously had never exported their products to Japan as most of them are using imported technologies and equipment from Japan. Qingdao-based Haier Group imported frequency conversion technology from Japan in 1993. This technology, through assimilation, innovation and improvement, was exported to Europe in 1998 for the first time. Three member countries of the European Union bought five air-conditioner production lines of Haier. The company's 27 world advanced patented technologies have aroused the concerns of its Japanese counterpart. A household appliance dealer from Tokyo, after conducting on-the-spot investigation and performance supervision, discovered that Haier was better than Japan's JIS in terms of its refrigerating output and low noise, so he decided to buy Haier air-conditioners. The export value of Haier air-conditioners last year increased by 175 percent and its sales in France shot up 500 percent in the same year. By PD Online staff member Deng Gang |
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