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original post »Generically, GE calls its R&D facilities "research centers." But the Shanghai one is called the China Technology Center. The company spokespeople also talk a lot about the center's "in China, for China" approach, which basically means that the goal of the work there is to develop technology that fits the needs of the local market.
It's easy to dismiss all this as a bit of marketing speak—at least until you talk to the researchers. There's really an awareness on their part of doing work that makes the end results relevant for China.
To give one example, China's best energy resources, both renewable and fossil fuels, are in the country's west; lots of its people and industry are in the east. So, one of the projects mentioned was work on direct-current transmission lines, which are more efficient for shifting electrons over long distances.
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