Note 3 - Summary of significant accounting policies (Detail) - The exchange rates used to translate amounts in RMB into US$	Mar. 31, 2013	Dec. 31, 2012
Balance sheet items, except for equity accounts	6.2816	6.3161

Foreign exchange rate used to translate amounts denominated in functional currency to reporting currency.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 830

-SubTopic 30

-Section S99

-Paragraph 1

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6897108&loc=SL6897125-166521

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