AFK Sistema plans to set up a microelectronics joint venture in China, Sistema president Mikhail Shamolin told journalists Thursday.
"We are working and looking at creation of a joint venture with leading Chinese manufacturers of telecommunications equipment and a host of other companies," he said.
Sistema is intensively developing its microelectronics business, both R&D and manufacturing, he said. "Many businesses in the group intersect with areas that are developing rapidly in China," Shamolin said. Sistema subsidiary Sitronics set up a joint venture with Chinese ZTE, Sitronics-ZTE, in 2008. The Russian company received a 51 percent interest in the venture.