A bright light in the euro gloom

2013-09-27 09:42

Crisis and opportunity often run in tandem. A new report shows that Chinese investments in Europe grew dramatically in 2011-12, despite the continent continuing to suffer a downturn in that period.

Up, up and Huawei

2013-09-27 09:42

After the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei opened an exhibition center near Amsterdam recently, Eberhard van der Laan, the city's mayor, sang the companies praises to business leaders in a speech.

Little-known vehicle with a big name

2013-09-27 09:42

Everybody has heard of the Great Wall, but few outside China know of the products it lends its name to.

CRE eyes dominance with supermarket bid

2013-09-27 09:42

If China Resources Enterprise is successful in a bid for ParknShop, billionaire Li Ka-shing's supermarket chain in Hong Kong, it will help CRE dominate the market and update its retail unit, experts say.

Expats head to greener pastures

2013-09-20 15:36

As foreign companies search for new markets in China's tier-two and tier-three cities, more expat senior managers are being asked to leave the bright lights of Beijing and Shanghai to work in places they are not fully familiar with.

Top jobs getting difficult to fill

2013-09-20 15:36

China will experience a severe managerial shortage in the world in the second half of 2013, continuing a five-year trend, according to a survey of executive search consultants.

In go-ahead Guiyang, it all figures

2013-09-20 15:36

These days it is the kind of growth target that most countries, including China, would think of as impossibly ambitious - 14 percent. But that is what Guizhou province, in Southwest China, is projecting for its GDP growth this year, the highest in the country. Lest anyone think the aim is outlandish, the province can happily report that its GDP grew 12.5 percent in the first half of the year, 4.9 percentage points higher than the national average for the period.

Topography and poverty no match for willpower

2013-09-20 15:36

Big domestic companies, banks and multinationals are rarely tempted to take a plunge into China's southwestern hinterland because of a lack of modern infrastructure, human resources and services.

Quotable

2013-09-20 15:36

"The gap between Chinese products' technical parameters and international standards still exists. Blind investment in production capability without proper forecasting mechanisms only leads to overcapacity."

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Chinese firms face trust deficit

2013-09-20 15:36

There is a wide gap between the trust China's multinational companies enjoy at home and the way they are perceived abroad, a survey has found.

Cure sought for medical sector's ills

2013-09-20 15:36

Sun Xiaoyan used to be a frequent visitor to hospitals, but not as a patient.

Out with monovision, in with multi-branding

2013-09-20 15:36

Peter Caplowe weaved his way through the crowds thronging Nanluoguxiang in Beijing, neatly stepping around stylish young couples browsing the ancient alleyway turned shopping hotspot.

Big wheels keep turning

2013-09-20 15:36

Foreign automakers are anticipating that the silver lining provided by sports utility and multipurpose vehicles in China during August will continue for the rest of the year also.

Tricky art of succession

2013-09-13 10:13

Whether they were born with silver chopsticks in their mouths is moot, but we can be sure that they have led very comfortable lives, received the best education and wanted for nothing materially.

In the name of the fathers

2013-09-13 10:13

With China's private businesses playing a more significant role in the economy, appropriate successors are considered vital for the future of family-owned firms.

A cultural oasis in the making

2013-09-13 10:13

At first sight, West Kowloon seems to be utterly out of place. Right next to this 40-hectare development site, much of it covered in green grass, with blue and yellow cargo containers scattered here and there, skyscrapers jostle for attention, the clear winner being the International Commerce Center, at 482 meters the tallest building in Hong Kong.

Quotable

2013-09-13 10:13

"We need to strengthen policy coordination, strengthen systemic risk monitoring and macro-prudential regulatory requirements. Only in this way can we firmly safeguard the bottom line in preventing systemic and regional financial risks."

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Experts give new agency good rating

2013-09-13 10:13

The opening of a new global credit rating agency, one of whose co-founders is Chinese, has been welcomed by a former senior World Bank vice-president, who says it will be an "invaluable asset" that can take on companies which now dominate the global industry.