Open AccessChina's laser market climbs the curve – Will China help global laser sales or conquer them?
Author(s) -
Hardin Winn
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
laser technik journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1863-9119
pISSN - 1613-7728
DOI - 10.1002/latj.200790078
Subject(s) - china , government (linguistics) , five year plan , business , laser , political science , philosophy , linguistics , law , physics , optics
Although the laser industry has been on the Chinese government's hot list since the National Science and Technology Development plan of 1963, it has been the acceptance of free market economic policies of the past two decades that has catapulted Chinese laser businesses, markets, and technology on the world stage.