ORNL China ties key

Oak Ridge National Laboratory high-performance computing chief Jeff Nichols says ORNL must find ways to work with China on science and computing. Frank Munger of the KNS reports.

Med Trade Center's China ties

Nashville Medical Trade Center developers Market Center Management Company (Crow Holdings) said in a release today Beijing-based Huida Investment Management Company will lead development of a "China pavillion" within the trade center, which MCMC still says will openin 2013, and which is to have 1.5 million square feet of space, eventually. NMTC here. The release will eventually be here.

TN-China trade caution

Speakers during a recent Memphis conference on trade with China spoke of opportunities and business perils. The CA reports it.

ORNL mounts 'aggressive' supercomputing advocacy effort

Oak Ridge National Laboratory communications and external affairs chief Billy Stair (at left) comments on the response from ORNL and its supporters to ORNL's Jaguar losing the supercomputing lead to a new Chinese entrant. Related: ORNL release on drug discovery and computing.

China traveler hints at TN Solar investment

A report this morning in the KNS from Oak Ridge NL communications director Billy Stair suggests an American company might consider a solar-production company in Tennessee. The column is here. Meanwhile: No TN winners in the ARPA-E competition announced yesterday.

U.S.-China e-Car forum

The Department of Energy reports on the concluding of the first-ever U.S.-China Electric Vehicle Forum, the latest fruit of a several decades of normalized relations between the two superpowers, which together produce 40 percent of the world's greenhouse gases.

NV fund in ZST Digital

According to staff at MidSouth Investors here in Nashville, Midsouth has invested $500K in ZST Digital Networks Inc., which focuses, according to ZST's recently filed red herring, on "supplying digital and optical network equipment to cable system operators in the Henan Province [PRC] of China... The Company has assisted in the installation and construction of over 400 local cable networks covering more than 90 municipal districts, counties, townships, and enterprises." As reported earlier by VNC, Mid-South is controlled by Buzz Heidtke (left).

China's Solar flare

The New York Times reports that, as the Obama Administration funds new clean-energy initiatives, China is pushing for domestic and offshore production and adoption, and is eyeing new production facilities in the United States.