Which employees should sign confidentiality agreement in China?
June 15, 2009
According to Article 6 of “Several Opinions on Strengthening Management of Technical Secrets” promulgated by Ministry of Science and Technology, in accordance with the provisions of relevant laws, enterprises and institutions may sign confidentiality agreement with the scientific and technological personnel, administrative staff, and employees who may be aware of the technical secrets.
In general, employees that should sign confidentiality agreement include:
1. Senior R&D staff, technicians and management personnel, who may hold the core technologies of enterprises, or take charge of management work, or control the critical business information. They are the major group for signing confidentiality agreements.
2. Technical support staff and skilled workers in key posts. Although they are not the crucial group, they may also come into contact with the core technologies, which make it necessary for them to sign confidentiality agreements.
3. Market planners and sales staffs, who are the undertakers of business decisions. Since they know about the marketing plans and customer lists, enterprises shall sign confidentiality agreements with them.
4. Accountants, secretarial staff and security personnel, who may know about the commercial secrets because of their posts. If they do not sign confidentiality agreements, they may disclose the secrets intentionally or unintentionally.
Content and form of secrecy agreement
According to the principle of justice, equity and negotiation, secrecy agreement should include the following contents such as scope and content of secret, rights and obligations of each party, period for guarding secret and liabilities for breach of contracts.
Form of agreement is shown as follows:
The agreement between employer and employee is to keep business secret.
1) Due to the working requirements, employee is permitted to obtain business secrets relating to job, including…. Meanwhile, employer is responsible for professional and technical training. Employer should give an honor if employee makes a contribution to keep business secret.
2) Employee should safeguard the interest of enterprises and　consciously and strictly abide the secrecy regulation.
3) Employee is not allowed to divulge business secret to any units and individuals.
4)Employee is not allowed to use business secret for personal interest.
5) Employee is not allowed to occupy the business secrets obtained from work or R&D, and related documents, blueprints and samples should be archived instead of keeping privately.
6) The permission of employer is necessary if employee is going to stop the employment contract. All the business secret documents should be transferred to employer. Meanwhile, employee has the obligation to keep business secret and will not engage in any job relating to the business secret of former employer within three years.
7) Both employer and employee should follow the agreement, and if one breaches the agreement, the other is entitled to investigate the responsibility of breach agreement and require compensation for economic losses.
The agreement will come into force from the date of signing.
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Airport Wins Safe Parking Award
January 18, 2009
MANCHESTER AIRPORT WINS SAFE PARKING AWARD
Manchester Airport (MA) has won a “Park Mark” Award from the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) for improving the safety and facilities in its public car parking areas.
The improvements made have led to a 79 per cent reduction in vehicle crime across the airport site over the last three years.
The prestigious Park Mark Awards are only awarded to companies that have put in comprehensive measures to deter criminal activity within parking facilities.
Manchester Airport – which has space on site for 14,000 cars in its seven public car parks – has won the award following a programme of works designed to improve the safety of its facilities.
Over £250,000 has been invested in the works that include the installation of additional fencing, lighting and CCTV in hotspot areas.
John Spooner, managing director of Manchester Airport, said: “We want to provide safe and secure facilities for our customers and we’re delighted that the improvements we’ve made to our car parks have been officially recognised by this award. We will continue to work with the police to ensure that vehicle crime continues to drop across the airport site.”
Ken  Upham, Greater Manchester Police’s Crime Reduction Advisor,
Manchester Airport police station said: “This award represents over
three years of partnership work between GMP and Manchester Airport to tackle vehicle crime.
“The airport have willingly taken aboard our advice and have invested
substantial funds into reducing crime on the airport car parks. As the
figures show, their efforts have paid off with a significant drop in
vehicle crime.”
Assistant Chief Constable Steve Thomas, Greater Manchester Police said:
“This award goes to show that selecting and implementing the correct
security measures can help in the reduction of crime.
“We have worked closely with our associates at Manchester Airport and our
knowledge, together with their investment, has ensured a significant
decrease in crime and created a safer place for the public to park their
cars when visiting the complex.”
ACC Steve Thomas presented the award to Manchester Airport at a ceremony on Friday 8 July.
Source:Â Â Â Â Â Â http://www.manchesterairport.co.uk
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Number Plate Recognition Technology
October 13, 2008
Recent advances in Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technologies have lead to a greater acceptance of the technology by car-park operators. The new digital ANPR technologies present greater read rates than traditional CCTV/PC based technologies and offer far greater flexibility in deployment and customization than previously available. By attaching a unique signature to every vehicle entering and exiting a car park the potential of a car-park management system is greatly enhanced. The signature widely used by vehicle identification technologies is usually the registration number displayed on the front and rear of the vehicle. To robustly read this plate in all weather conditions, day and night and to increase the ability of a system to read dirty plates, Alpha Vision Design has developed a stand alone digital ANPR station that can extract the registration number and automatically present the number for processing. The applications of ANPR technologies can be used for tolling, police enforcement, journey time analysis, average speed violation and access control. Within the car parking domain, most car park operators use ANPR technology as a medium to locate lost vehicles, to calculate occupancy times and to dramatically decrease the revenue loss associated with ticket fraud. ANPR is also finding favour within non-supervised car parks as a means to control access via a white list. This white list contains a list of vehicles with known access rights. Suitable for hotel, apartment and company car parks, this negates the use of disposable paper tickets and wireless FOBs. Companies with large fleets are introducing ANPR as a cost effective method of tracking their vehicles throughout their depots. Large supermarkets and chains are also beginning to utilize the information obtained from their car-parks as a way of highlighting demographic patterns with a view to maximizing profits. For any traffic management system to be a success, the read rate must exceed 99%. Traditionally most operators shied away from ANPR when they discovered that their true read rates were rarely above 60%. In real world applications, this was the limit, not due to poor software but the result of using conventional CCTV systems to obtain the images. CCTV technology is 50 years old and does not lend itself well to computer recognition systems. The common processing core for CCTV based ANPR systems is a PC. CCTV/PC based systems are not robust and are unacceptably high maintenance. To counter this, Alpha Vision Design has developed a self-contained ANPR system designed specifically for the car parking industry. This system includes an integrated illuminator, high resolution digital camera, digital analyser and on-board relays, all contained in one standard security housing. Only mounting and a power cable is required – an industry first! A high resolution camera obtains images that are over sixteen times larger in area size than CCTV images. Combined with a wider field of view, now only one camera is required to capture both the registration plate and an overview of the vehicle, and vehicle placement within a lane is no longer an issue which leads to greater capture rates. The camera /computer unit can in real time adjust the exposure, gain, and the integrated on-board IR lighting to maximise the contrast and readability of the registration plate, including dirty plates, variations in plate reflectivity, strong headlamps and adverse weather conditions. This cannot be done with CCTV/PC based ANPR systems. The setup is easy and is only required once per site, with no re-configuration necessary even after a power outage as the system will reboot automatically. On a typical 800 bay car-park, the system can also store up to five years of data, capturing and time stamping an image of every vehicle entering and exiting the facility. The system is true Plug & Play and can directly control a parking barrier via its on-board database and integrated relays. For configuration, simply use any standard web browser to manage the ANPR station – no third party software is required to manage the entire ANPR network. Our standard systems are shipped in three versions. We have an ANPR station designed for operating at a 10 meter and 25 meter range, and a system for high speed traffic applications. All systems are pre configured and only mounting is required. The ANPR stations can act stand alone or integrate with an existing parking entry ticket/gate system. For remote applications, the ANPR station can also be configured to run over GPRS, TCP/IP and WIFI Networks.
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China Tightening Foreign Investment Restrictions
September 7, 2008
Under pressure from nationlists, China’s government is expected to continue blocking approval of foreign investments in key sectors. In particular, any involving “national strategic industries,” a definition which now specifically includes the bearing industry. And while rejecting more foreign investors outright, it is also consolidating many sectors under state control.
The China Industrial Security Center, part of the State Economic and Trade Commission, said its studies now show foreign merger and acquisition activity in China has reached the point where it has led to essential monopolies in some industries, threatening domestically owned and controlled businesses.
In addition, foreign investment is seen as potentially weakening China’s control over its own destiny in developing infrastructure and supplying defense-related needs.
CISC holds that foreign investments have not produced the often-promised results — access to new technology, international synergies, productivity gains — or delivered operating advantages, or any special improvement in the business at all.
Instead, CISC says allowing foreign direct investment has many risks :
• Market manipulation. It now claims foreign investors use the Chinese companies as tools to control specific domestic Chinese markets, earn outsized profits, then ship those profits out of China and overseas to the parent company.
• Impact on local economies. CISC said China’s economic safety is at risk in allowing foreign financing and ownership of raw materials supplied to domestic energy, transportation, and similar infrastructure dependencies. Similarly, autonomy is at risk when foreigners own key support businesses in the finance and publication sectors.
• Hindering local industry. When they come to relying on foreign funding, input and control, the Chinese businesses become too passive in developing their own skills, products and technologies. This threatens the future of business and may ultimately threaten China’s defense security.
The bearing manufacturing industry was specifically cited as an example of one where foreign involvement should be limited. In the bearing industry, foreign ownership should spark concern — because reliance on foreign resources hinders organic domestic development of skills and resources, and also because it creates the potential for China to rely on foreign-owned bearing manufacturers for the availability of key components needed for domestic security.
• Foreign ownership of large businesses in China, with no government controls, is a threat to the traditional economic system, which relies on many small-scale manufacturers. CISC said foreign-owned multinationals have unfair advantages over local businesses which can be short of technology savvy, and/or do not have much export sales built up.
In China, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) account for as much as 70% of domestic manufacturing output. Their access to capital has been hurt by recent government reforms aimed at tightening inflation and throttling back overheated growth.
Recent statistics issued by the State indicate manufacturing businesses are involved in nearly a quarter of all foreign-funded M&A activity in China. Overall, there were 169 M&A deals in China during second quarter 2008 — up 225% from first quarter.
Despite the central government’s stance on majority foreign ownership, locally-solicited foreign investment has been accelerating in manufacturing-heavy provinces. For example, FDI in Sichuan Province this year is up 108% to USD $1.8 billion, despite May’s devastating earthquake. Over 180 new foreign-funded businesses were given approval to begin operations in Sichuan, down 13 percent from 2007. But those businesses have agreed to invest more than $4.2 billion, up 208% from 2007.
Arcelor Mittal was recently rebuffed in its efforts to become more deeply involved in the highly fragmented Chinese steel industry. The Chinese government is consolidating steel producers; it wants the 10 largest, currently at 35% market share, to be at 50% by 2010, and 70% by 2020. Lakshmi Mittal said; “I do not see that in a year or so, the Chinese government will change their strategy where they do not want foreign companies to have a majority control.”
Source: bearings-china.com.cn
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Reading’s New Car Park
September 2, 2008
Reading’s new multi-storey car park in Chatham Place not only provides 600 new spaces, but also offers advanced levels of safety, security and customer service. The car park – owned and operated by Q-Park – is a 10-floor car park with natural wood louvre panels made from sustainable sources on the outside and bright, attractive stainless steel lattice mesh. Inside, Q-Park’s specially trained and uniformed staff operate the most modern technology to make parking a pleasant experience, not a chore. The new car park is: · Manned 24 hours a day by uniformed ‘hosts’ in conjunction with 24/7 secure entry and exit technology · Designed and built to make maximum use of natural lighting, using open aspects, bright reflective surfaces and environmentally-friendly lighting systems that maintain safe, bright internal areas for drivers and passengers, but without high energy usage or costs · Offers a wide range of payment options, starting at £1 per hour, with season, weekly and events tickets available: and payment can be by coins or notes, credit or debit cards · Incorporates the latest CCTV security surveillance covering entries and exits and all floors, and this is linked to a 24/7 manned control centre · Provides additional customer services including the loan of baby buggies during the period that customers’ cars are parked, and umbrellas; and · Offers services such as a shoe polishing machine, battery ‘jump start’ kit, and tyre compressor/inflator. Parking is made easy through the use of special floor coating, which is not only smooth and comfortable to drive and walk on, but also allows the large parking bays to be clearly and colourfully marked. Ramps to and from the different levels are wide and shallow, and the construction design eliminates intrusive or obstructive columns – both of which help make parking fast and simple. Tom Crisp, Lead Councillor for Planning and Transport at Reading Borough Council, said: “When you consider the car park that once stood at this site, this is a vast improvement. In contrast with the old, grey concrete structure, this is a good example of a car park designed to the highest standards, both in terms of external appearance, but also in terms of a customer safety and the facilities available to drivers on site.” Car park charges are highly competitive: Parking time Tariff Up to 1 hour £1.00 Up to 2 hours £2.00 Up to 4 hours £3.00 Up to 6 hours £7.00 Up to 12 hours £11.00 Up to 24 hours £12.00 Overnight (6pm – 8pm) £2.00 The new Chatham Place car park is part of a £250 million mixed-used development in Reading town centre by Muse Developments (formerly AMEC). This first phase is primarily residential with over 300 private and shared ownership apartments as well as shops and new areas of public realm. It is a partnership development with Reading Borough Council and the first phase is due for completion in spring 2009.
Source:Â Â Â Â http://www.parking-net.com
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