On 24 November, Philips Lighting formally opened a fluorescent lamps plant in Yizheng EDZ, in the city of Yangzhou in Jiangsu province. Yangzhou is one of the major port cities on the Yangtze River, a short distance downstream of Nanjing.

The Euro60m plant will supply the growing Chinese market as well as other countries; it will be Philips’ largest fluorescent lamp base in Asia.