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THIS AGREEMENT, made this ________ day of _________________ 2011 (the “Effective Date”), between , a Chinese corporation having its principal office at Shanghai 200131, P.R.C (hereinafter referred to as “”) and __________________________ a ____________________ [Country] Corporation having its principal office at ________________________________________________________________________________[Address] (hereinafter referred to as “Company”). WITNESSETH WHEREAS, both parties, for their mutual benefit, desire to disclose to the other certain specifications, designs, plans, drawings, software, data, prototypes, or other business and/or technical information related to production equipment and process technology for ___________________________________ (hereinafter referred as the “Project”) not currently disclosed by the applicable patents which is proprietary to the disclosing party. WHEREAS, both parties disclose certain areas of said proprietary data to each other on the condition that the other does not disclose the same to any third party nor make use thereof in any manner except for the evaluation and specification relating to the Project. NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereto agree as follows: Article 1,  DEFINITIONS “Confidential Information” shall mean any information received from the disclosing party which is marked as “CONFIDENTIAL” and/or “PROPRIETARY”. Information initially furnished orally or visually which was identified by the disclosing party as confidential and/or proprietary at the time of disclosure shall be confirmed by the disclosing party as Confidential Information in writing with accompanying letter or per e-mail within fifteen (15) days of its initial disclosure. An Affiliated Company is any corporation, company, or other entity, which: (i) is controlled by a party to this Agreement; or (ii) controls a party; or (iii) is under common control with a party. For this purpose “control” means ownership or control, direct or indirect, of more than fifty percent (50%) of the controlled entity’s shares or ownership interest representing the right to make decisions for such entity. An entity is considered an Affiliated Company only so long as such ownership or control exists. Confidential Information disclosed or received by an Affiliated Company of a party shall be considered as information disclosed or received by the party itself and shall be subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. Article 2,  TREATMENT IN CONFIDENCE Except as provided in Article 3 hereof, the parties agree that, during a period of five (5) years from the date of receipt of any Confidential Information hereunder and unless the disclosing party gives its prior written authorization, to the following: a)    Not to use the Confidential Information of the disclosing party for its own use or for any purpose except for valuation or specification of the Project. b)    Not to disclose the Confidential Information of the disclosing party to any other person other than its directors, officers and employees and Affiliated Companies having a need-to-know who are directly involved in the intended evaluation and specification or the decision whether or not to pursue it, provided, however, that the receiving party shall be responsible for any failure of such persons and Affiliated Companies to keep confidential all Confidential Information disclosed by the other party and any failure of such persons to comply with the terms of this Agreement, and the receiving party shall cooperate with the disclosing party in enforcing the rights of the disclosing party in connection with a breach of this Agreement. c)    To take reasonable security measures and use care to preserve and protect the security of, and to avoid disclosure or use of the Confidential Information of the disclosing party and to store and save all confidential files in reasonable protected directories not being accessible to personnel other than those mentioned in lit. b above. d)    To refrain from copying or reproducing the documents or electronic files that embody Confidential Information, unless as necessary for evaluation or specification of the Project. e)    To refrain from reverse engineering, disassembling or decomposing any prototypes, software or other tangible objects which embody Confidential Information of the disclosing party and which are provided to the receiving party hereunder. f) To promptly advise the disclosing party in writing of any misappropriation or misuse by any person of such Confidential Information of the disclosing party which may come to its attention.