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Language and cultural barriers put pressure on large and small companies alike, but I would argue the economy is the main thing that affects the Chinese business practices that foreigners find the most jarring. Read more>>
Nov 06, 2011 Comments(1)
Editor's note: Following the Financial Crisis, and in the midst of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement, you wouldn't expect many people to hold the US regulatory system in high regards, as it has clearly shown certain… deficiencies in ...... Read More>>
Sep 05, 2011 Comments(0)
Failure to cater to local tastes and habits in using online interfaces are most certainly two of the stumbling blocks which have felled foreign internet sites in China. Akin to walking through the hectic neon-lit downtown of a Chinese metropolis, with ...... Read More>>
Aug 07, 2011 Comments(1)
Editors Note: This translated article reports on how China’s increasing demand for French wines, and the increasing amount of money that wealthy Chinese are willing to spend, is shocking the global wine market. The article also discusses the social ...... Read More>>
Jul 23, 2011 Comments(1)
There is no denying that Internet usage in China is a booming business. With over 500 million people connected, China is by far the most active online nation in the world. Of that number, roughly two-thirds of these users play online games, which is about ...... Read More>>
Jul 06, 2011 Comments(0)
Editor’s note: This is a translated and edited version of an article from the Chinese site www.sina.com. The article describes how a large part of investors on the Chinese stock market are private individuals, who very often loose money on their ...... Read More>>
Apr 22, 2011 Comments(5)
In one of my recent articles, I began to explore the idea of jobs and opportunities for Westerners away from the more traditional area of teaching English. One of the areas I touched on was becoming an entrepreneur, starting a business here in China. For ...... Read More>>
Apr 02, 2011 Comments(1)
Photo: farm1.static.flickr.com China is of course the workshop of the world, on a scale perhaps never seen since Britain became the first country to industrialise. Every day, one encounters facts and statistics on the country’s scale of production ...... Read More>>
Feb 23, 2011 Comments(0)
"What other country could treat us as well as the Chinese have? They’ve loaned us money and provided us with the kind of cheap goods that let the middle class feel a little bit richer.” The author of this piece overheard a man speak those ...... Read More>>
Feb 19, 2011 Comments(0)
Despite China’s prominence on the world’s political and economic stage, the country’s current laws regarding the protection of intellectual property rights leave a lot to be desired. Cases of intellectual piracy abound in China, where the ...... Read More>>
Nov 24, 2010 Comments(0)
As China increasingly finds itself suffering from "labour shortages", a new phenomenon has been quietly sweeping across the country: more and more migrant workers from Southeast Asian countries are finding ways to come to China and obtaining ...... Read More>>
Oct 28, 2010 Comments(1)
In the process of opening up my own company in China, I was jolted into shock at how complex the process is. What looked like a simple matter at first has become a job that involves several government bureaus and endless paperwork. However, there are ...... Read More>>
Sep 21, 2010 Comments(1)
China’s recent ascension to the number two spot in the world’s economies has provided a new metric by which to describe its miraculous development. It seems that few foreign enterprises are choosing to sit out in favor of attempting to reach the ...... Read More>>
Sep 07, 2010 Comments(0)
Many times it's easy to spot the Chinese product. China Mobile, for instance. Or anything featuring Jackie Chan in its advertising gimmicks. But some Chinese-owned products or brands can make you do a double take. Whether they've bought into foreign-based ...... Read More>>
Aug 22, 2010 Comments(0)
Former CEO of Hewlett-Packard Mark Hurd About a month ago, then chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard Mark Hurd abruptly canceled his previously scheduled trip to China, citing a cold as the reason. Last weekend, he suddenly announced his resignation as the ...... Read More>>
Aug 21, 2010 Comments(0)
The words “China” and “business” are practically synonymous these days, with every other expat you meet claiming to be an entrepreneur who will take the nation by storm and make a million off the back of the dragon. Whether ...... Read More>>
Dec 07, 2009
On December 2nd, China's Most Valuable Brands, a study on Chinese consumer brands that has continued for the last fifteen years recently publicized its 2009 results. One hundred Chinese companies made it into the final listings, a show of strength from ...... Read More>>
Nov 07, 2009
You can hardly throw a rock in China without hitting fifty people who want to get into the export business, or who already are. A fair number of those people are going to be expats, and not necessarily the ones who work with large international companies. ...... Read More>>
Oct 23, 2009
They were the leaders and steersmen of Chinese business and commerce. They've been gifted with commendable acumen when it comes to business maneuvers and capitalization. They've accumulated wealth net worth measurable in billions, each, and have made ...... Read More>>
Oct 09, 2009
When it comes to goods made in China, four descriptions pop into the minds of most of the world’s foreign consumers: cheaper-by-the-dozen, questionable quality, mass produced and counterfeit. It is obvious that Chinese companies still have a way to go ...... Read More>>
Sep 30, 2009 Comments(0)
There are all sorts of reasons to be in China, whether you’re visiting, living here permanently or simply investigating it for future uses. I'm one of those that have finished investigating and have moved on to the problem of how to make a decent ...... Read More>>
Sep 22, 2009
There was a time when what happened in China had minimal impact on our lives. Those days are gone. What happens in China no longer stays in China. The Asian behemoth is underwriting U.S. debt to the tune of $1 trillion and growing, has the fastest-growing ...... Read More>>
Sep 21, 2009
No longer just a trendy way to consume, online shopping is also a market ripe for white collar workers looking to earn some extra income in their free time. However, according to a recent survey that polled over 4,000 such white-collar entrepreneurs, only ...... Read More>>
Aug 26, 2009 Comments(1)
Special Topic: Finding and Keeping Jobs in China Starting a business is never an easy endeavor: in addition to coming up with a good idea, researching the market and gathering investment capital, there are miles of bureaucratic tape to cut through regarding ...... Read More>>
Aug 17, 2009
According to the World Bank's most recent statistics, in 2008, Chinese expatriates and skilled workers trying their luck in foreign countries sent home a total of 40.63 billion USD – accounting for a whopping 1% of China's 2008 GDP. Spare income wired ...... Read More>>
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