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Want to Invest in Suzhou? Evaluate Your Impact
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Loading ...If you believe all the stories you hear in China, then investing in a factory in China used to be easy.
Throw the carrot of FDI in front of park, and the rest will take care of itself. Land will be cleared, chops chopped, labor arranged, etc. For many parks mixing industries was not seen [...]
China’s “Go Global” Spending Spree
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...On this (cold and wet) side of the “pond” we variously revere and resent our cousins in the US (size matters in business). So it was when the newly formed Chinese state investment authority bought into Blackstone, the US private equity firm. However, the latest news is that the UK bank Barclays may also be [...]
Bribed in the PRC. Prosecuted in the USA.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...“Bribery”, “corruption” and “fraud” in China all are regular features of the business headlines. But readers (at least many of them) often assume that they are “Chinese” problems. Often they are, but it is not a safe assumption. In recent months I have come across three cases of employee fraud at foreign companies operating in [...]
Dalian Port’s Promotional Video
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...One never knows what one will find on Youtube, and while wrapping up a Yangtze report I found the below promotional videos fro the Dalian Port.
If you have never visited a port, you need to at some point as it really is an amazing site. Besides the containers whizzing by your head, what you [...]
Transparency And The Environment
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The environment is high on the government agenda, as President Hu Jintao made clear recently, but there is still much to be done. The FT notes an OECD report that has some scary conclusions:
“China’s air pollution will cause 20m people a year to fall ill with respiratory diseases, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [...]
FDI up 12% in First Half
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...FDI just keeps on coming to China. Shanghai Daily reports that it was up 12% in the first half of 2007:
“FOREIGN direct investment in China, the world’s fastest-growing major economy, climbed 12.2 percent in the first half from a year earlier.
Spending rose to US$31.9 billion, the Ministry of Commerce said today on its Website. The [...]
A Hot First Half for 2007
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Recently the Sizzling Summer Stats and June trade figures were already causing concern. Now new figures on GDP, investment and inflation show that there is still plenty of heat in the economy (but also some welcome domestic demand). Figures reported in People’s Daily include:
• GDP: Up 11.5% in the first half of the year (and 11.9% [...]
How Critical is Being Able to Speak Chinese? Ask Richard Ong
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...A bit off our normal topic range, when I saw the FT article Goldman executive hits China barrier I knew All Roads readers needed to see it.
Over my almost 6 years in China I have run into many who thought that they did not need Chinese in China, and in Shanghai there are more [...]
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