Archive for the ‘Doing Business in China’ Category
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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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
A British friend Andy and I were on the second leg of a four-day bicycle ride around Lake Tai (Taihu, in Chinese), three hours west of Shanghai. A couple hours northwest of the resort area of Huzhou, at the southern bend of the lake, we came across a small armada ...
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Spring Festival (or Chinese New Years, as it is called in the West) is a time for Westerners to lay low or to escape China altogether. It is also the time when China’s services sector thrives the most. Whether the travel and tourism industries, or restaurants, or financial or marketing, ...
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
The air was barely breathable when I left the confines of Dongguan’s city limits to vist the outlying manufacturing districts. Dongguan is a major manufacturing center in Guangdong province, near Hong Kong. The couple days I had traveled to some of these districts my eyes burned and my throat scratched ...
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
As I sped along at more than one hundred miles per hour on the bullet train from Shanghai to my home in Suzhou – cars peeling away from the landscape, the occasional water buffalo a blur - I considered what a Beijing-based journalist-friend had told me a half-year before: “In ...
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
"In the 1950s through the 1970s we only had one dust storm about every three years,” a retired professor at Beijing’s Foreign Language Institute told me in the Spring of 2006. I had just missed a dust storm – sha chen bao – that had buried Beijing under a quarter-inch ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
In the winter of 2005 I met a Vice Mayor of a township of Chongqing, near Sichuan Province. The forty-ish Vice Mayor was casually dressed in a cheap pull-over sweater and black faux-leather jacket. He told me he would personally drive me out to the area where a client ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
I've been thinking about business and social trends in China I would consider inexorable; that is, there is little short of natural or man-made catastrophe that would halt the momentum of the trend. The list I came up with covers four basic areas: Environmental, Industrialization, Policy and Social trends.
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