giant TV screens

Two new Chinese LCD screens in Beijing's imposing Great Hall of the People have replaced screens made by a Japanese competitor, in a sign of resolve to supply the world with Chinese brands and not just Made in China products.
The screens, installed for the annual session of parliament ending on Wednesday, are made by Chinese electronics giant TCL. At 110 inches, they are the world's largest, just a touch wider than the 108-inch Panasonic models they replaced.
"We have broken through the Japanese and South Korean monopoly of big flat-screen TVs," TCL chairman Li Dongsheng boasted at a launch ceremony on Friday. Officials from the Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), and the government of Shenzhen, TCL's hometown, clapped and nodded.
The government is encouraging its companies to move up the value chain and develop margin-producing brands, partly as a matter of national pride but also to shift the world's second-biggest economy away from gritty, low-profit manufacturing.