HELSINKI (AFP) - Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia (pews- web sites) said it would expand its research and development activities in China, boosting cooperation with Chinese universities and swelling the number of phones designed and developed in the country. 'China is definitely a strategic part of Nokia's global R and D network,' Nokia's chairman and CEO Jorma Ollila said in a statement Friday. Nokia said it had been granted government approval to run a postdoctoral program that will enable researchers to work on advanced telecommunications technology, like 3G and Chinese mobile applications, at the Nokia Research Center in China. The company also said it would create a unit which in cooperation with 10 Chinese universities will promote open platform. technologies, and that it would establish a research facility in Beijing focused on the digital wireless technology CDMA (news -web sites) (Code-Division Multiple Access). In addition, the mobile giant said it would increase the Chinese share of its global handset design and development to 40 percent. What is implied but not stated in the passage?