Archive for the ‘Doing Business in China’ Category
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
China Briefing has an insightful article about the lack of exposure most Chinese managers have to international standards of corporate governance. Chris Devonshire-Ellis writes, “A lack of regulatory authority in China means Chinese managers are often not properly educated when it comes to understanding or dealing with international standards of ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
It’s not just the Hong Kong and Taiwanese companies in Guangdong that are closing up shop due to increased costs of doing business and/or they’re just cheap with workers, as I had written a couple days ago in my post Take the Money and Run: South Chinese Factory Closures.
Beijingreview.com reports:
“On ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
“Most of my fish have died,” I said wryly. Dave (not his real name) and I were having hot pot at a local Suzhou restaurant. Hot pot is a pot of boiling broth – spicy and non-spicy, depending on how you order it – into which hungry patrons dip uncooked ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
One night I was watching Nanjing local television news coverage. This poor bloke on-screen could hardly walk down the sidewalk as the reporter’s camera trailed him. His face was puffy, one of his eyes swelled raspberry red. He held his lower back, crooked like an old man who had for ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
The December 1st edition of The Economist Magazine had an excellent survey of Japanese business, reviewing the country's progress since its economy's meltdown in the 1990s and early 2000's.
One passage in particular stood out for me:
"China recently surpassed America as Japan's main trading partner, but new investment by Japanese firms ...
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Recently a friend of mine and I were having dinner. Stan (not his real name) commented on the rising cost of pork, and, in general, the rising cost of everything in China.
The conversation put me in mind of another friend of mine, the General Manager of an American operation ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Yuyao is a small town an hour’s drive west of Ningbo, in Zhejiang Province, south from Shanghai across the Hangzhou Bay. I had gone to investigate a Chinese automobile parts factory in the sleepy town. It was one of the hottest summers on record, in the end racking up 40 ...
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
On October 1, 1999, Beijing was a model Chinese city. It was clean, orderly, with little air pollution and no beggars and street peddlers. There was no building construction, either. It was the Chinese Communist Party’s 50th birthday and it wanted Chinese people and the world to know it had ...
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
China’s GDP will nearly have eclipsed America’s by 2020; by 2030 China’s will be the largest in the world. Per capita GDP income at that time, however, will still be less than many of the members of the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD), made up primarily of Western ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
During June of 2007 my weblog, This is China! was inaccessible here in China. Readers in other countries were able to read my daily entries of “Conversations and Musings on the Trends Shaping China Business and Society”. A rather harmless blog by Chinese censorship standards, typically exploring complicated issues and ...
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