Where Does China Rank in the World?
By Bonita Chen Since the beginning of former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms in 1978, China has undergone unrivaled rapid economic growth, boosting an average GDP growth rate of 10...
View ArticleChina Railway Signal Co. to List $1.8 Billion IPO on Hong Kong Market
By Lauren Dodillet State-owned China Railway Signal and Communications Corporation began looking for investors for its $1.8 billion Hong Kong IPO last Monday. The company—which makes signal systems...
View ArticleChina Welcomes Foreign Video Game Makers
By Lauren Dodillet Last week China’s Ministry of Culture finally lifted a 14 year ban on foreign video game consoles, giving companies like Nintendo Co., Sony Corp., and Microsoft Corp. access to what...
View Article$4.6 Billion Investment to Ally Alibaba with Suning Electronics Retailer
By Lauren Dodillet Alibaba Group Holding Ltd will invest $4.56 billion into Suning Commerce Group Co Ltd to accumulate a sum 19.99 percent share in the electronics company, a joint statement announced...
View ArticleTianjin Explosions May Spur Billions in Insurance Claims
By Lauren Dodillet A series of blasts in Tianjin on August 12th may cue billions of dollars in insurance claims. The explosions rocked the world’s third-largest port last Wednesday and burned into the...
View ArticleCOSCO-China Shipping Merger Finally in The Works?
By Lauren Dodillet After years of rumors, a merger may be in the works for China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company (COSCO)—China’s largest shipping enterprise—and China Shipping (Group) Company. The two...
View ArticleG20 Could Disrupt Yangtze River Delta Operations
By Pianpian Huang and Owen Haacke As the Group of 20 (G20) Summit—the annual, large-scale global government conference—heads for Hangzhou, China in September, companies with operations in the Yangtze...
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Chinese Investment Tripled in US in 2016, Doubled in Europe
By Baker McKenzie Combined Chinese direct investment in the advanced economies of North America and Europe more than doubled in 2016 to a record $94.2 billion as China continued its transition to a new...
View ArticleThe Trade War Is On Hold – But the Politicized Trade and Investment Climate...
by Andrew Gilholm For Chinese observers of US politics, 2017 largely confirmed their initial assessment of US President Donald Trump: a transactional deal-maker who would negotiate with bluster and...
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The Handshake that Changed the World
It was shortly before President Nixon’s visit to China in February 1972. White House officials were worried about a handshake. But Robert Siegenthaler, the ABC News executive and head of the...
View ArticleUnderstanding China’s Middle Class
Targeting key segments of China’s diverse and rapidly emerging middle class will be crucial as household incomes rise by Kheehong Song and Allison Cui Gone are the days when companies looked at China...
View ArticleA New US Embassy—and a Chance to Look Back and to the Future
by Lydia R. Goldfine Just in time for the 30th anniversary of US-China diplomatic relations, and reflecting the growing importance of US-China relations, the new US Embassy in Beijing and new PRC...
View ArticleEconomic Recovery in the Works?
As the global economy contracted sharply in late 2008, the PRC government’s massive response helped China remain one of the few relatively bright spots in a bleak economic landscape. Boosted by the ¥4...
View ArticleBeijingers’ Views of Americans
by Isaac Stone Fish Though it is difficult to generalize about Beijing’s roughly 17 million residents, in the seven years I’ve been traveling to and from China, I have noticed similarities in the way...
View ArticlePRC Ambassador, US Secretary of Commerce Speak at USCBC’s Forecast 2010
USCBC held its Forecast 2010 reception and conference in Washington, DC, in late January. Attended by leading US government officials, PRC government representatives, USCBC member company executives,...
View ArticleGovernment Provides Clues into China’s Foreign Investment Plans for Strategic...
by Kyle Sullivan PRC leaders recently shed light on how China intends to incorporate foreign investment into its goals for developing strategic emerging industries. A mix of seven high-tech sectors,...
View Article11th B2B Sales Leaders Symposium 2014
Organizer: Global ConsignIndex Location: Marriott Shanghai Date: September 11-12, 2014 Web: http://www.consignindex.com/salesleaders2014/be_EventOutline.html Contact: Kiara Cheung Email:...
View ArticleChina, Spain Sign $4 Billion in Business Deals
By Ellen Huber China and Spain signed business deals worth about $4 billion at the end of September, just before Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy visited China on an investment mission, reports...
View ArticleChina Forms Infrastructure Bank Despite US Opposition
By Lauren Dodillet Representatives from China, India, and 19 other Asian nations gathered in Beijing last Friday to sign a memorandum of understanding to establish the Asian Infrastructure Investment...
View ArticleMexico Reneges on Bullet Train Collaboration
By Lauren Dodillet President Enrique Peña Nieto has rescinded the contract won by a Chinese-led consortium last week to build a high-speed railway in Mexico due to questions over the deal’s legitimacy....
View ArticleUS, China Take Action on Climate Change
By Lauren Dodillet US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping announced a US-China agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions last Wednesday, wrapping up two days of bilateral meetings...
View ArticleChina, Australia Sign Free Trade Agreement
By Lauren Dodillet Chinese President Xi Jinping and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott met last week in Canberra to sign a landmark Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between their two countries. A decade...
View ArticleAir China Buys 60 Boeing 737s for $6 billion
By Lauren Dodillet A Boeing Company press release announced today that Air China Ltd. ordered 60 Boeing 737 and 737 Max aircrafts. The purchase is valued at over $6 billion, but with large-order...
View ArticleMerger of China’s Two Largest Rail Companies Forms $26 Billion Firm
By Lauren Dodillet State-owned China CNR Corporation Limited (CNR) and China South Locomotive & Rolling Stock Corporation Limited (CSR) announced in a joint statement on December 30, 2014 that...
View ArticleChinese State Nuclear Companies Merge into $96 Billion Firm
By Lauren Dodillet A merger between state-owned nuclear enterprises China Power Investment Corporation (CPI) and State Nuclear Power Technology Company (SNPTC) was approved earlier this month by...
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The Greening of Asia: The Business Case for Solving Asia’s Environmental...
In this excerpt from his book The Greening of Asia: The Business Case for Solving Asia’s Environmental Emergency, Mark L. Clifford tells the tale of the inspiration sparked by the impromptu...
View ArticleBoeing Sells Jets to Private Chinese Airline in $6.1 Billion Deal
By Lauren Dodillet The Boeing Company signed a contract—announced Monday—to provide Chinese budget airline Ruili Airlines with 60 new 737 Max jets within the next 10 years, although the exact delivery...
View ArticleJV Brings AccuWeather Tech to China
By Lauren Dodillet AccuWeather Inc. and Huafeng Media Group announced a joint venture (JV) on May 22. The JV, aka Huafeng-AccuWeather (Beijing) Co. Ltd, will bring AccuWeather technology to consumers...
View ArticleVW Zaps Life Into China’s Electric Vehicle Market
By Lauren Dodillet On June 3, Volkswagon Group (VW) signed a deal with China’s SAIC Motor Corporation Ltd to boost research, development, and production of electric and hybrid vehicles in China. The...
View ArticleDidi Kuaidi Raising $1.5 Billion to Retain Control of China’s Car Service...
By Lauren Dodillet Xiaoju Kuaizhi Inc.—also known as Didi Kuaidi, China’s largest taxi and ride-sharing company—is attempting to raise enough money to value the startup app at $45 billion. Back in...
View ArticleChina’s CITIC Antes Up $113 Billion for Silk Road Initiative
By Lauren Dodillet Chinese state-owned conglomerate CITIC Ltd. announced last week that it will invest upwards of $113 billion dollars into China’s “One Belt, One Road” (aka the New Silk Road)...
View ArticleSparking New Business: US Innovation, with Chinese Funding
By Brooke Salkoff For Alex Gruzen, CEO of wireless charging pioneer WiTricity, working with a tech-focused venture capital firm in China seemed a natural fit. Gruzen knew China well from his time at...
View Article$19 Billion Fund Set to Stabilize Chinese Stocks
By Lauren Dodillet 21 Chinese securities companies led by Citic Securities Co. are pledging more than $19 billion dollars to a fund that will help stabilize the market. The fund, which opened Monday...
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