Its foreign joint ventures also manufacture the following brands for sale in the Chinese market:

U.S. Memories, the proposed cooperative venture to manufacture computer memory chips, is scaling back its fund-raising goals to keep the project alive, the venture's president said today.

The venture, which uses Toshiba technology, is now manufacturing the 16-megabit chip.

The joint venture will manufacture 150,000 cars annually by 2002.

Texas Instruments said the venture manufactures the missiles for a joint United States Navy and Air Force program.

The joint venture manufactures mainly DA40 Diamond Aircraft with a yearly production scale of 500 aircraft.

A second joint venture of £3.1million employs 1,100 and exclusively manufactures men's underwear and baby wear for Marks & Spencer.

Virgin Group and Scaled have subsequently formed a joint venture, The Spaceship Company, to manufacture the spacecraft.

The joint venture manufactures and assembles fully built buses and coaches targeted at developing mass rapid transportation systems.

The new joint venture, Knorr Auerbach G.m.b.H., will manufacture food products.