MORE than 20 Shenzhen companies have provided products and services for the Beijing Olympic Games, beating many other international companies in the competitive bidding process.
Their products and services include high technology equipment, technical support through to food, clothing and souvenirs.
The huge light-emitting diode (LED) screen laid in the center of the Bird’s Nest at the opening ceremony was made by Glux OE-TECH (Shenzhen) Co.
The screen, developed and produced by Glux, is the first of its kind in the world, requiring high precision and stability. Its stage consisted of 8,624 specially-made LED screens with aluminum alloy shells. They are not only wear-resistant but also waterproof, allowing performers to dance on it even in the rain.
After an intense international bidding process and rigorous tests, Glux was finally awarded contracts in March, 2006 and allowed to provide all LED screens for the Beijing Olympic Games.
The extraordinary lighting effects of the Bird’s Nest and Water Cube are also from LED lights made by Shenzhen Likeda Optical Electricity Co.
A total of 260,000 LED lights have been installed at the Bird’s Nest, while there are as many as 480,000 LED lights at the Water Cube.
“The LED lights are much brighter than normal lights, but they only use 20 to 50 percent the energy so are more environmentally friendly,” Kou Kaitai, general manager of Shenzhen Likeda said.
Shenzhen-based Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp., the nation’s two major telecom equipment makers, are two of the major telecom equipment suppliers of the Beijing Olympics.
The Shenzhen Evening News reported Wednesday that during the Beijing Olympics, all the fixed-line and 80 percent of the wireless services were offered through equipment provided by Huawei Technologies.
ZTE Corp. is the largest provider of third generation (3G) mobile network equipment at the Beijing Olympics, offering a wide range of telecom gears and services including networks and mobile phones operated on homegrown 3G technology TD-SCDMA, global open trunking architecture (GOTA) contingency communication, broadband access, optical transmission and communication guarantee.
Other Shenzhen companies also providing products for the Olympics are Golden Phoenix Furniture Co., Mainland Headwear Holding Ltd. and Yihai Kerry Oil & Grain Co.
Shenzhen companies have also contributed to security protection. Shenzhen Hispeed Boad Tech. & Dev. Co. has provided two of their maritime coastal escorts and Secunion Ex-views Technical Co. has supplied security equipment for the Olympics Village.
In addition, more than 90 percent of the country’s netizens get to know what’s happening at the Beijing Olympics through QQ, an instant messaging tool developed by Shenzhen Tencent Co. According to the company, more than 1.6 billion messages had been exchanged through QQ by Aug. 15. (Wang Yuanyuan)