9 companies will buy more than 30 million LCD TV panels from the mainland this year.

China News agency, Xiamen, April 9 (reporter Chen) chinese Electronic Video Industry Association, Vice President Lin Yuanfang 9th in Xiamen revealed that the mainland 9 backbone color TV Enterprises in 2009 from Taiwan procurement 3.4 billion U.S. dollars, 18 million LCD TV panels, this year will continue to expand the procurement scale to 31 million pieces, up to 5.3 billion U.S. dollars. Lin Yuanfang in Xiamen, Taiwan's cross-Strait flat display Forum said that the Taiwan Strait in the flat display industry chain is highly complementary, in order to jointly cope with the adverse impact of the financial crisis, the Chinese Electronic Video Industry Association in the last year has set up a "cross-strait flat panel display Industry Promotion Working Group."　　In addition to expanding the scale of the purchase of LCD TV panels in Taiwan this year, the mainland has also been actively promoting technical cooperation between the two countries.　　He said that at present, Taiwan's China-Hong Ying tube has been through shareholding and Xiamen-China comprehensive cooperation, friends and Changhong has also established a joint venture module factory, Cross-strait Enterprises have made significant progress in investment cooperation.　　He said that cross-strait cooperation on the one hand to promote the global liquid crystal display industry stability and recovery, but also to ensure that the mainland in the panel construction has not yet formed the capacity to consolidate the local brand status, effectively withstand the impact of the financial crisis, to contain foreign competitors. Taiwan's TFT-LCD industry association secretary General Chang said that Taiwan's liquid crystal Panel industry in the 3rd quarter of 2008 to the 2nd quarter of 2009 marked decline, especially in Taiwan, the lack of local color TV brands, in the financial crisis impact, the LCD panel capacity utilization rate has been reduced to about 20% to 45%. He highly praised the mainland household appliances to the countryside to expand domestic demand policy has achieved great results.　　Chang Frankly, the mainland home appliances to the countryside and other policies to promote Taiwan's LCD panel enterprises out of the crisis played a significant role. Zhang also suggested that cross-strait industry associations should have a joint industry alliance, Research and Development, establish standards, once the cross-strait industry combined, there will be huge development space.