Enter the Dragon: How will China Affect the Global Wide-Format Inkjet Industry?

摘要

With a population of 1.31 billion and the highest consistent growth rate of any major global economy over the last 16 years, it is natural that the Chinese market should be of interest to us all. Earlier in 2004, China passed Japan to become Asia's largest oil consumer and overtook Italy to become the world's sixth largest economy, based on current exchange rates. In terms of purchasing-power parity, China is already the second in the world. For the purposes of this discussion, however, we will focus only on China's projected effects on the global wide-and grand-format inkjet industry.