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Going Global; Flush with billions in foreign reserves, China is embarking on a buying spree.(Industry Overview)(Cover Story)

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| March 01, 2004 | Wehrfritz, George; Seno, Alexandra A.; Lee, B. J. | COPYRIGHT 2004 Newsweek, Inc. All rights reserved. Any reuse, distribution or alteration without express written permission of Newsweek is prohibited. For permission: www.newsweek.com. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: George Wehrfritz, With Alexandra A. Seno in Hong Kong and B. J. Lee in Seoul

Nestled deep in Kwun Tong, Hong Kong's gritty factory district, China's leading cell-phone manufacturer is plotting to conquer the world. Hatched in 1992 to make pagers in its namesake coastal city, Ningbo Bird sold more handsets on the mainland last year--nearly 11 million--than Nokia or Motorola. But that was then, and now Wang Jianping, director of Bird International Ltd., has fixed his gaze three to five years down the road--on markets like Vietnam, India and Africa. "China could reach basic equilibrium in just three years," he says, meaning the cell-phone market could be ...

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