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Securing Your Supply Chain in China – Part 1
Following my pattern of posts related to the importance of supplier management in China, I found the below Youtube series entitled Sourcing Strategies China — Find the Right Suppliers, and the series is a must watch for anyone who has been able to see the forest from the trees and is still interested in China [...]
PharmEng inks Chinese joint venture deal
This was a recent article on DrugResearcher.com, by Emilie Reymond. The article goes into detail about the recent merger between two pharmaceutical companies. Canada’s PharmEng and Chinese firm Beijing BRD Lixin PharmaTech have signed a joint venture to provide consulting and pharma development services in China. The deal announced this week will combine the two [...]
Managing Growth, Olympic Sales, and Expectations in China
There have been a few articles over the last week that I came across on other blogs, or news sources, that are a bit outside my traditional scope of coverage. Rather than create a full post, I will just offer my reasoning for why the posts/ articles should be read. Chinese Growth: An Issue of [...]
The Environment: A Disaster, RMB10 Billion & A Blacklist
US Treasury Secretary Paulsen seeks common ground in the form of the environment on his latest China trip. While that might usefully take discussions away from the RMB (and the latest Senate bill) it also comes at a time when the environment in China is again hitting the headlines (The Star): “Residues from a local [...]
Want to Invest in Suzhou? Evaluate Your Impact
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 [...]
Freight Security in China. Don’t Let Your Goods Go Missing
If congested Shanghai Ports were not enough for you to call your freight forwarder, perhaps Cargo News Asia’a article Crime on the rise at Shanghai ports may be (h/t/ 3plwire). According to the article, many of the recent crimes are being committed by people from outside of Shanghai (of course) carrying fake licenses (cost 50USD) [...]
Where Do Manufacturers Get Their Materials from in the First Place?
Some of the lead that Chinese manufacturers have been using to make cheap jewelry comes from an unconventional source: computers and other electronic goods discarded in Western countries and dumped in China. The United Nations estimates that as many as 50 million tons of so-called e-waste are thrown away world-wide each year. Read Original Post [...]
Safety Inspector Says Tire Exports Meet Safety Standards
Government inspectors say tires made by a manufacturer whose products are facing a recall in the U.S. do meet safety standards, as companies and the authorities here step up their fight against accusations that China?s exports are hazardous. The maker of the tires, Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber Co. Read Original Post Here
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