A leading Chinese tea drink chain has stopped selling recently launched products and merchandise featuring images of ceramic Luohan sculptures after allegations it was engaging in an act of commercial promotion in the name of Buddhism, which is against the law in China.

中国一家领先的茶饮连锁店已停止销售最近推出的以陶瓷罗汉雕塑为特色的产品和商品，此前该连锁店被指控以佛教的名义进行商业宣传，这在中国是违法的。

On Nov 28, Hey Tea released co-branded tea and merchandise with the Jingdezhen China Ceramics Museum in Jiangxi province.

11月28日，嗨茶与江西省景德镇市中国陶瓷博物馆联合发布了联名茶及商品。

The collaboration, named Hey Buddha, featured three of the ceramic sculptures exhibited at the museum depicting the 18 Arhats, or Luohan in Chinese, from Buddhism.

此次合作名为Hey Buddha，展出了博物馆展出的三件陶瓷雕塑，描绘了佛教的18罗汉。

Hey Tea printed the images of the three Luohan ceramic sculptures on the special paper cups designed for the tea lattes in the series.

Hey Tea将三尊罗汉陶瓷雕塑的图像印在该系列茶拿铁专用纸杯上。

But some people said Hey Tea only used images of ceramic Luohan sculptures, which were just artworks from the perspective of many people, meaning the allegation could be flawed.

但也有人表示，嗨茶只使用了陶瓷罗汉雕塑的图像，从许多人的角度来看，这些只是艺术品，这意味着这一指控可能存在缺陷。

The company has invested in several new projects in Xi'an, Shaanxi province and Tianjin, including multilayer ceramic capacitors, which serve as key components of electronic equipment, new energy vehicle batteries and semiconductors.

该公司在西安、陕西和天津投资了多个新项目，包括多层陶瓷电容器，作为电子设备、新能源汽车电池和半导体的关键部件。

Professional industrial exhibitions serve as a crucial connection between the supply and demand sides in industrial and supply chains, said Chen Dexing, president of Wenzhou Kanger Crystallite Utensils Co Ltd, a Zhejiang province-based glass and ceramic ware manufacturer with more than 1,500 employees.

专业的工业展览是连接产业链和供应链中供需双方的重要纽带，温州康格水晶器皿有限公司总裁陈德兴说。康格水晶制品有限公司是一家总部位于浙江省的玻璃陶瓷制品制造商，拥有1500多名员工。

The US glass and ceramics maker's history of development in China dates back to 1980 when its first sales office opened in this country.

这家美国玻璃和陶瓷制造商在中国的发展历史可以追溯到1980年，当时它在中国开设了第一个销售办事处。

In the meantime, the brand joined hands with Living Fossil Studio, a ceramic designer and manufacturer, to launch "Corona living bin", a new initiative aimed at raising people's awareness about the growing issue of plastic pollution at beaches.

与此同时，该品牌与陶瓷设计师和制造商Living Fossil Studio联手推出了“Corona生活垃圾桶”，这是一项旨在提高人们对海滩日益严重的塑料污染问题的认识的新举措。

In the meantime, the group will deploy more resources in high performance carbon fiber and glass fiber, information display glass, wind power blades, special cement and high performance concrete, lithium battery diaphragm, nitride ceramics, artificial crystals and a large number of new materials to achieve industrial mass production in the coming years.

Marketing via Middle East and BRI to promote firm's innovative product lineArrow Home Group Ltd, a Chinese ceramic sanitary ware and smart home services provider, said it has sewn up its global expansion plan for the next 10 years.

The company was a designated ceramic sanitary ware supplier to the China Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai UAE.

The company has become a "designated ceramic sanitary ware supplier for the China Pavilion at EXPO 2020 Dubai UAE", which came after 27 years of development in product innovation and brand image.

The company to date has built a sales network for its V-KOOL brand in more than 1,000 stores across China and will introduce new products such as the window films made by nanometer ceramic for electric vehicles, and the next generation films that protect the car paint in this massive market.

The project has selected about 10 kinds of traditional handicrafts that have been passed on for generations including the ceramics industry in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, and embroidery work by the Li ethnic group in Baisha city in Hainan province.

"It is expected to be completed and put into operation next March," said Liu Xibi, president and CEO of Dalicap, a national high-tech enterprise in research and development, manufacturing and sales of multi-layer ceramic capacitors.

Its $2.4 billion investment in Tianjin will be used to expand power battery lines and establish a multi-layer ceramics capacitor factory for automotive electronics in the city.

Miriam Wanjiru, a logistics professional at Twyford Ceramics in her early 20s, said she felt privileged to be the youngest outstanding local employee to take part in the trip to China.

Compound mica paper is widely used in electronic devices, motors, chemicals, metallurgy and household appliances, while compound mica ceramics' feature of corrosion-resistance and high temperature-resistance makes it popular in ships, electric traction locomotives and high voltage switches.

AGC Group, a glass and industrial ceramics maker, is aiming to build its reputation among Chinese consumers and looks forward to cooperation in a wider range of areas with Chinese companies after the inaugural import expo.

Chinese investors have established a ceramic tile and porcelain manufacturing company in Zimbabwe.

The Nanjing plant's products will likely be sourced by both traditional and new materials industries such as chemical, automobile, electronics, glass, photovoltaics, pharmaceutical and ceramic decoration.

GANI, as a representative of Chinese traditional manufacturing, attracted discussion with its reinvention of "Chinese ceramics".

United States-based Ember is planning to enter China with its flagship smart temperature-controlled ceramic mug, eyeing opportunities in the country's red hot tech market.

By synchronizing with a smartphone app, the ceramic mug can keep coffee or tea at an exact temperature according to the user's preference.

Chinese consumers will also be able to purchase the ceramic mugs via Ember's official website.

Founded in 2010, the California-based firm now has two smart mugs products - a travel mug and a ceramic mug.

A Chinese expo of ceramic, bathroom and kitchen items kicked off in Istanbul on Tuesday.

The expo coincides with Istanbul Ceramic, Bathroom and Kitchen Fair, the second largest of its kind in the world, which brings together the leading players in the ceramic, bathroom and kitchen industries for five days until March 3.

The Chinese firms are displaying a wide range of products including ceramic machinery, raw materials and accessories, ceramic products, sanitary ware products and accessories, sauna and swimming pool equipment, shower cabin systems and kitchen furniture.

In addtion, the Mi Mix 2 also features a ceramic body, which Lei called "Unibody. "

He goes abroad every month to visit foreign enterprises in different sectors such as ceramics, glass, metallurgy and chemical engineering.

XINHUAChinese ceramic tile maker Monalisa Group Co has launched a production unit in Italy, a joint venture with Gruppo Romani SpA.

Chinese ceramic tiles of Monalisa have a distinct niche in the market.

As one of the world's leading ceramic tile manufacturers, Monalisa sells in more than 40 countries and regions.

At a booth inside the Pazhou International Convention and Exhibition Center in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, Xu Yajie, a sales manager, has been busy all day introducing colorful ceramic products to buyers from the United Arab Emirates.

Guangdong Sitong is a ceramic company based in Chaozhou, Guangdong.

Guangdong Sitong, which exports to more than 90 markets worldwide, displayed tailor-made ceramic products during the event, Xu said.

Improvements in design and technology over the years have made the company's ceramic products offer more added value in the global market, especially in Germany, the Middle East and Central Asia, she said.

"We have seen an increased number of buyers from Germany, which has stricter market standards in design and technology for ceramic products.

In addition to attending the local music festival, she said she plans to visit the ceramic art fairs and the ceramic museum in Jingdezhen.

The bridge was opened to the public in 2007 after a thorough restoration with various pavilions set up on it for showcasing cultural relics of local characteristics, mostly intangible cultural heritages, such as embroidery, wood carving, and ceramics.

"Professional industrial exhibitions serve as an essential connection between the supply and demand sides in industrial and supply chains," said Chen Dexing, president of Wenzhou Kanger Crystallite Utensils Co Ltd, a Zhejiang province-based glass and ceramic ware manufacturer that employs more than 1,500 people.

A cargo train, fully loaded with 100 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) containers of ceramic tiles, tires and grease processing equipment, left Lianyungang for Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan on Thursday.

"Chen Dexing, president of Wenzhou Kanger Crystallite Utensils Co, a glass and ceramic ware manufacturer in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, said the company's output in the first quarter of this year was approximately half of last year's total amount, due to increased orders from developed countries.

A China-Europe train carrying 100 standard containers of China-made small commodities and ceramic products left Yiwu, a major hub of small commodities in East China's Zhejiang province, for Madrid, Spain, Thursday.

The US multinational specializes in specialty glass, ceramics, related materials and technologies like advanced optics.

"I brought more than 20 kinds of handmade tea sets, handicrafts, handmade carpets, and a lot of handmade ceramics from my country this time," said Asilbek Khonkhujaev, an exhibitor from Uzbekistan and an international student at Hangzhou Normal University.

Each of my handmade ceramics is unique, and the patterns on the ceramics have stories behind them.

TIANJINxa0 -- In a restaurant decorated with pink and white ornaments, children enjoy themselves in the play area of a two-story European-style "castle," making marshmallows and popcorn, painting ceramics and participating in a cosplay gala, while their parents enjoy delicious food in the dining area.

Loaded with goods including guitars, electronics and ceramics, the inaugural train is expected to arrive in Vorsino, Moscow on Dec 3, according to Guizhou provincial commerce department.

As the government and private sector have launched large-scale infrastructure projects, combined with the impact of the pandemic, the local demand for cement, ceramic tiles and marble has significantly increased.

A program of sodium salt-based energy storage batteries, a low-cost, green and safe energy storage solution developed by the CAS' Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, was launched in Taicang, Jiangsu province, for industrialization in 2019.

Glass and ceramic manufacturers listed on the A-share market rose by 4.2 percent on Monday, while the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index climbed 1.21 percent to close at 3551.4 points.

So far, the company's products, such as ceramic solar power heaters and the plateau heating bed system, can be found in high-altitude areas across all prefectural-level areas of the region, providing heating for more than 100,000 residents.

CHONGQING-- A cargo train carrying containers of goods, including paper pulp, quartz sand, and ceramics, arrived in Southwest China's Chongqing municipality on Saturday, marking the completion of the 7,000th rail-sea intermodal train trip running along the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor this year.

Shandong Industrial Ceramic Research and Design Institute Co Ltd, a subsidiary of State-owned China National Materials Group Corp Ltd, has made breakthroughs in areas such as 3D-printed dental ceramics, tough and stable silicon nitride implant ceramics used in orthopedics and other related medical materials.

Dehua is known as a city for ceramics manufacturing.

- From regular COVID-19 updates to client visits, Zheng Pengfei's social media posts offer a glimpse into how his ceramics business has fared through much of the past year.

Many orders were canceled in March and April due to the epidemic, casting a shadow on the business of Shunmei Group, a leading ceramics exporter in Dehua County of east China's Fujian province, said Zheng, the group's general manager.

"Thanks to robust exports of ceramic home accessories and seasonal gifts, which account for around 80 percent of Shunmei's business, the company's exports this year are expected to outperform those of last year despite the impact of the epidemic.

Dehua, a ceramics manufacturing powerhouse in China, exports over 60 percent of its ceramic products to over 190 countries and regions worldwide.

It was dubbed the "World Ceramics Capital" by the World Crafts Council in 2015.

It is estimated that Dehua's ceramics industry will be worth 40 billion yuan by the end of this year.

Wen Keren, a pioneer who has been helping Dehua build its export-oriented ceramics industry since the 1980s, is among such entrepreneurs.

As global demand for disposable latex gloves took off amid the pandemic, Wen's company quickly switched to producing ceramic glove formers, a product that he found had huge market potential.

The glove formers are made of a high-performance material that is tougher and more durable than regular ceramic.

The ceramics industry is one of the local economic pillars.

Known as "China's ceramic capital", Jingdezhen is promoting not only automation of porcelain production but use of online tools and technologies like livestreaming to drive sales.

For instance, automation at Jingdezhen Yishan Ceramics Co Ltd has enhanced efficiency and boosted profits, said Yin Zhongwei, its deputy manager.

The factory is now capable of reaching an annual output of 10 million ceramic pieces.

For its part, the Jingdezhen municipal government has cooperated with Douyin, a short-video platform, the Zhushan district government in Jingdezhen and Jingdezhen Ceramic Culture Tourism Group, a State-owned firm, to set up a livestreaming-driven e-commerce portal for the city, named as "Live".

The online venture operates out of Ceramic Art Revenue, a porcelain business incubation park in Jingdezhen developed by JCCTG.

Ceramic firms, salespeople, and startup teams can register on the website/app to be considered for free physical space and access to livestreaming equipment to exhibit and sell their products online.

Ceramic Art Revenue also launched Yi Space, a section in the park to support startups and young artists by way of free offline product exhibition space and sales booths.

He said: "I kept having serendipitous moments here… Every ceramic artist who comes to China from other countries needs to visit Jingdezhen because the place is the ultimate destination for ceramics and porcelain.

The rare ceramic ware is now listed as a State-level intangible culture heritage.

One group, Foshan Henglitai Machinery, will bring to the event its latest smart pressing machine for extra-large ceramic boards, which broke the previous monopoly held by foreign companies in China.

The current ceramic products markets, large commodity markets and the international auto town are being urged to boost their presence in wholesale business, the plan said.

In the past few years, we have already introduced quite a few intelligent products, and we are planning for one-third of our ceramic products to use smart tech from this year onward," said Kang Jian, general manager of American Standard China.

The output of commercial concrete and ceramic tile jumped by 10.1 percent and 6.3 percent respectively, while that of laminated glass went up by 5.1 percent, according to data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

Ceramics export amounted to 40.8 billion yuan, the highest among all building materials for exports.

James J. Lally, whose Manhattan gallery specializes in Chinese art such as ceramics wrote: "In fact, the PRC is the world's largest market for Chinese art－their internal market for ancient Chinese art is many times larger than the US market.

Shunmei Group is a major ceramics manufacturer for an array of widely known global brands including Disney, Walmart, Universal Studios and Coca-Cola.

More than 2,600 local companies in Dehua county are involved in the ceramics industry, exporting their products to economies across the world, especially countries and regions involved in China's Belt and Road Initiative.

More than 100,000 villagers out of 330,000 in the county work in the ceramics industry.

"Right now in Dehua, the ceramics industry has become more globalized with opportunities brought by the Belt and Road Initiative," said Zheng Pengfei, general manager of Shunmei.

"It is innovation that drives us to combine traditional ceramic techniques with modern designs, so that our products can meet the demand from global markets," Zheng said.

In the first five months of this year, more than 90 companies have expanded their ceramics businesses to 39 Belt and Road economies.

A common plain white ceramic plate used to sell for 5 yuan (72 cents) but now fetch $10, Zheng said.

More than a hundred Chinese brand enterprises are showing their various products, including well-known high-speed trains, maglev train,unmanned aerial vehicles, 3D printers, vehicle maintenance and repair material, auto parts, household ceramic gifts and building materials.

The sedan sports heat-resistant ceramic batteries.

Wang claims BYD Electronics is the world's only company that can manufacture all metal, glass, ceramic and plastic components of mobile phones on a large scale and provide overall handset design solutions.

The company has started to develop new material to meet the demand of 5G mobile phones, focusing on three-dimensional glass and ceramic varieties.

An anthracite-colored headliner, grey seat belts, ceramic applications for the selector lever and iDrive Controller, and door sill strips with "Edition" inscriptions add the finishing touches to the exclusive interior ambience of the special-edition model.

Arrow Home Group Ltd is the designated ceramic sanitary ware supplier for the China Pavilion.

Ledstar Tech, founded by Chen Mingxiang, a professor at the university, unveiled a ceramic circuit board for manufacturing semiconductor devices.

Meanwhile, the tech giant is shifting its attention and focusing on high-end manufacturing and emerging industries such as semiconductor memory chips, multi-layer ceramic capacitors, organic light-emitting diode displays and electric vehicle batteries in China.

Infrared thermometer lenses for abnormal temperature inspection, 5.0 neutral borosilicate glass tube for vaccine storing, flat sheet ceramic membrane for medical wastewater treatment…they are just a handful of equipment the company is working on.

Alumina is the main raw material of the aluminum industry, with the majority 95 percent used in electrolytic aluminum smelting and production, and the rest used for ceramics, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, among others.