China's Big RFID Market Beyond The National ID Program
China not only boasts the “world’s largest” RFID-enabled government ID card initiative, but a wide range of other RFID projects in transportation, animal-tagging, anti-counterfeiting and real-time location systems tracking. And it’s a market that in 2008 will reach $1.4 billion in revenue, according to ABI Research.
Perhaps the sexiest project in the works is the RFID e-ticketing apps for the upcoming 2008 Olympic Games and 2010 World EXPO (in Shanghai).
“We could see more than 12 million e-tickets for the Beijing games,” notes Michael Liard, ABI’s RFID research director. ![[end]](/resources/bullet/rfidnews-4.gif)
