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Note for Classification of Electronic Information Products
March 16, 2006
Section I of Article 3 of the “Administrative Measure for the Control of Pollution Caused by Electronic Information Products” defines electronic information products. There are ten (10) types of products were defined. It limits (defines) the scope of the “Administrative Measure”. To help those who care about the measure to understand the meaning of definition of electronic information products, based on the ministry’s statistic economic index of electronic information industry, classification for the electronic information product classification per the scope of the “Administrative Measure” is noted below:
A. Radar Equipment Products
A1. Radar Equipment
I. Command automation systems
II. Radar and subassembly equipment
1. Surface, vehicle radars
2. Airborne, space-based, missile radars
3. Shipborne radars
B. Communication Equipment Products
B1. Communication Transmission Equipment
I. Communication transmitters
1. Short wave, single-sided band transmitters
2. Long wave, super long wave transmitters
3. Short wave auto-adjust transmitters
4. Other transmitters
II. Communication receivers
1. Short wave, single-sided band receivers
2. Long wave, ultra long wave receivers
3. Digital receivers
III. Microwave communication equipment
1. Microwave receiving/transmitting communication machines
2. Microwave terminals
3. Microwave antennas, feeders
4. Other microwave equipment
IV. Satellite application products
1. Satellite communication earth station antennas
2. Satellite communication earth station low noise amplifiers
3. Satellite communication earth station up down frequency converters
4. Satellite communication earth station high power amplifiers
5. Satellite communication earth station terminals
6. Satellite remote sensing receiving equipment
7. Satellite aviation position receiving equipment
8. Satellite weather forecast receiving equipment
9. Other satellite earth stations and antennas
V. Scatter communication equipment
1. Scatter communication terminals
2. Scatter channel equipment
3. Scatter communication antennas
VI. Communication navigation positioning equipment
1. Aircraft communication navigation positioning equipment
2. Communication navigation positioning equipment for navigable use
3. Surface communication navigation positioning equipment
4. Other communication navigation positioning equipment
VII. Carrier communication equipment
1. Carrier terminals
2. Carrier repeaters
3. Electric Carriers
VIII. Optic communication equipment
1. Fiber optic terminals
2. Fiber optic relay equipment
3. Fiber optic amplifiers
4. Wavelength division multiplexer
5. Cross connection equipment
6. Other equipment
B2. Communication Exchange Equipment
I. Exchange
1. Stored-program control exchange (not including mobile stored-program control exchange)
1) Central offices exchange
2) User exchange
3) Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and network (IP) exchange
4) Others
2. Telegraph exchanges
3. Other exchanges
II. User access equipment
1. Wireless access equipment
2. Cable access equipment
3. Fiber optic access equipment
4. Access terminal equipment
B3. Communication Terminal Equipment
I. Transmitting receiving medium small scale radio stations
1. Short wave radio stations
2. Ultra short wave radio stations
3. Short wave hopping radio stations
4. Ultra short wave hopping radio stations
5. Short wave single sideband radio stations
6. Other transmitting receiving radio stations
II. Telephone sets
1. General telephones
2. Telephones with answering function
3. Video telephone sets
4. Cordless telephones
5. Card telephones
6. Coin-operated telephones
7. Special telephones (including encryption, mine telephones)
8. Other telephones
III. Date communication equipment
1. Fax machines
2. Data sets (including mechanic, electronic typewriters)
3. Digital packet exchange and packet assembler/disassembler
4. Others
IV. Communication electronic countermeasures equipment
1. Communication naval equipment
2. Communication direction finding equipment
3. Communication interference equipment
4. Communication security equipment
V. Communication navigation vehicles
1. Wireless communication vehicles
2. Wire communication vehicles
3. Communication defensive vehicles
VI. Communication subassembly products
1. Primary power supply equipment
2. Secondary power supply equipment
3. Network management, billing, monitoring equipment
4. Oil machine for communication use
5. Microwave subassembly equipment
6. Telephone subassembly equipment
7. Carrier subassembly equipment
8. Wiring equipment
B4. Mobile Communication Equipment
I. Digital cellular wireless phone system and equipment
1. Base station equipment
2. Base station antennas
3. Repeater equipment
4. Exchange equipment
II. Radio paging system and equipment
1. Paging base station
2. Other paging equipment
III. Trunk mobile communication system and equipment
1. Base station equipment
2. Base station antennas
3. Exchange equipment
IV. Medium small scale automatic radio telephone system and equipment
1. Exchange base station equipment
2. Other equipment
V. No central controller access communication system and equipment
B5. Mobile Communication Terminal Equipment
I. Mobile Communication Terminals
1. GSM cellular phones
2. CDMA cellular phones
II. Other Mobile Communication Terminals
1. Vehicle telephones
2. Intercom
3. Wireless pagers
4. Personal handy phone system (PHS)
B6. Communication Equipment to Fix Other Communication Equipment
I. Other communication accessory equipment
1. Modems for communication use
2. Wire distribution and split equipment for communication use
C. Broadcast Television Equipment Industry Products
C1. Broadcast Television Editing, Transmitting, Transmission Equipment
I. Audio program editing and broadcast control equipment
1. Recording and playing equipment for broadcast use
2. Consoles
3. Audio monitoring devices (kits)
II. Video audio program editing and playing equipment
1. Television recording editing and playing center equipment
2. News gathering equipment
3. Cameras for professional use
4. Recording editing equipment
5. Broadcast television recording equipment
6. Signal sources
7. Video information processing equipment
8. Television signal synchronous equipment
9. Television image & text/creation system equipment
III. Broadcast transmitting equipment
1. Short wave transmitters
2. Medium wave transmitters
3. Frequency modulation transmitters
4. Digital audio broadcast transmitters
5. Broadcast transmitting antennas and subassembly equipment
IV. Television transmitting and transducer equipment
1. Television transmitters
2. Television transducers
3. Surface antennas
4. Television transmitters’, transducers’ subassembly equipment
V. Satellite television transmitting and transducer equipment
1. Satellite television transmitting equipment
2. Satellite television transducer equipment
VI. Cable television network transmission equipment
1. Cable television front end equipment
2. Fiber optic transmission equipment
3. Cable transmission equipment
C2. Broadcast Television Receiving Equipment and Apparatus
I. Television receiving equipment
1. Professional use projection televisions
2. Video monitoring machines
II. Broadcast receiving equipment
1. Broadcast receiving equipment
2. Broadcast receiving equipment for automobiles
III. Satellite broadcast television receiving equipment
1. Satellite broadcast television receiving equipment
2. Satellite broadcast television receiving antennas
3. Satellite broadcast television receiving high frequency heads
4. Satellite broadcast television receivers
IV. Cable television receiving equipment
1. User terminal equipment
2. Cable television distribution system equipment
3. Cable television subassembly equipment
V. Professional audio recording, video recording, and playing equipment
1. Audio power amplifier equipment
2. Sound record players
3. Professional use record players
4. Voice language laboratory equipment
VI. Video recording and playing equipment
1. Television compact disc playing equipment
2. Tape camcorders
3. Video, audio encoders
VII. Subassemblies and accessories of broadcast television receiving equipment
1. Audio electronic amplifiers
2. Pickups
3. Magnetic heads
4. Speakers
5. Microphones
6. Headsets
7. OEM speakers - loudspeakers
8. Other accessories
9. Antennas for professional use
10. Antenna generators
11. Antenna converters
12. Mixers
13. Distributors
14. Splitters
15. User boxes
C3. Application Television Equipment and Other Broadcast Television Equipment
I. Application television equipment
1. General purpose application television equipment
2. Special environment application television monitoring equipment
3. Special function application television equipment
4. Special function application television equipment
II. Other broadcast television equipment
1. Stereo television equipment
2. Multiplex broadcast equipment
3. Big screen color display systems
4. Electronic displays
5. Touch screens
D. Computer Industry Products
D1. Electronic Computers - Whole
I. Large medium computer working stations
1. Large medium scale computers (Note 1)
2. Small scale computers (Note 2)
3. Working stations
II. Microcomputer equipment
1. Desktop microcomputers
1) Microcomputers for commercial use
2) Microcomputers for home use
2. Servers
3. Industrial controllers
4. Portable microcomputers
1) Notebook computers
2) Hand-held computers
5. Learning machines
6. Hand-held information terminals
1) Personal digital assistances (PDA)
2) Electronic translators
3) Electronic notebooks
4) Electronic dictionaries
D2. Computer Network Equipment
I. Network control equipment
1. Communication control processors
2. Concentrators
3. Terminal node controllers
II. Network access and adaptors
1. Network transceivers
2. Network converters
3. Network distributors
4. Ethernet network exchanges
III. Network connection equipment
1. Hubs
2. Modems
3. Internet Phones (IP Phones)
4. Routers
5. Firewalls (not include software firewalls)
IV. Network test equipment
1. Protocol analyzers
2. Protocol test equipment
3. Error detector equipment
D3. Computer Peripherals
I. Terminal display equipment
1. Characters symbols HanZi (Chinese characters) terminals
2. Graph image terminals
3. Displays
1) Monochrome displays (CRT) (including application TV use)
2) Color displays (CRT) (including application TV use)
3) Flat panel displays (including LCD, PDP etc.)
II. Input equipment
1. Plotters
2. Digitizers
3. Scanners
4. Mouse
5. Keyboards
6. IC card readers
7. Digital cameras
8. Magnet card readers and writers
9. Digital camcorder heads
III. Output equipment
1. Printing equipment
1) Dot-Matrix printers
a. General purpose dot-matrix printers
b. Invoice printers
c. Line printers
2) Laser printers
3) Inkjet printers
4) Multi-function printers
2. Voice output equipment
3. Graphic image output equipment
IV. External storage equipment
1. Floppy disk drives
1) General purpose floppy disk drives
2) Large capacity floppy disk drives
2. Hard disk drives
1) Hard disk drives
2) Magnet disk arrays
3) Mobile hard disks
4) Micro mobile hard disks (flash drives)
3. Compact disc drives
1) CD-ROM drives
2) DVD-ROM drives
3) DVD-RW drives
4) MO drives
5) PD drives
6) Other compact disc drives
4. Tape drives
V. Digitized information products
1. Digitized storage recording playing products
2. Public information automatic serving system
3. Others
D4. Computer Subassembly Products and Consuming Materials
I. Microcomputer boards and cards
1. Motherboards
2. Internal memory sticks
3. Sound cards
4. Video cards
5. Network cards
6. Other function cards and interface cards
II. Power supplies
1. Switching power supplies
2. UPS power supplies
III. Other subassemblies and consuming materials
1. Enclosures
2. Floppy disks
3. Compact discs
4. Printer heads
5. Cartridges
6. Magnetic cards
7. IC cards
8. Color ribbons
9. Toner Cartridge
D5. Computer Application Products
I. Electronic publication systems
1. Precision photo typesetting systems
2. Light printing systems
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