Archive for the ‘Nanjing’ Category
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Yesterday, while heading over one of the bridges that connects north Nanjing with the city proper, across the Yangtze River, I marveled at the refineries that belched steam, flames and only-God-knows-what-else into the air. I was returning from a visit to one of the Chinese IT software companies in the ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
I took some numbers from the Shanghai Municipal Statistics Bureau representing the contribution of industry categories to the Shanghai economy and put them in a spreadsheet. The graph to the left is the result.
Primary industries involve the processing of natural resources such as iron, coal and wood. Light industry ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
While in Shanghai last week making my rounds of meetings I had a very pleasant conversation with John Huang, a Project Director over at GIC, Global Intelligence Communications. GIC hosts industry-specific conferences in Beijing and Shanghai. I had co-chaired their conference on "The China Summit for Business Development Leaders" ...
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
I really like going out to Jiangning, in Jiangsu Province, a thirty-minute drive south of Nanjing. The half-dozen times I’ve been to Jiangning on site selection projects I always leave the township in a good mood. Must be the Feng Shui. Feng Shui literally means in Chinese language Wind Water: ...
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
Why is it that China’s capitals are foul places in which to live? With the exception of Kunming (capital of Yunan) – which is developing an air low-quality octane – I find most of the capital cities I’ve been to are great paeans to commercial greed and lousy – if ...
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
I recently had a charming visit from representatives of Ascendas, a commercial realestate developer. Ms. Ge and Mr. Fan are based out of Shanghai, and traveled into Suzhou to chat about developments of the company throughout Asia. I was already acquainted with Ms. Ge from the AMCHAM Shanghai Conference at ...
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Monday, June 4th, 2007
The June 2007 issue of the China Economic Review has a feature article on the Investment Trends of Suzhou, especially around the R&D, IT and BPO spaces. The name of the article is The Starbucks Factor. I was quoted extensively in the article (happily, because nothing seemed to be taken ...
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Monday, March 12th, 2007
It was a such a pleasant relief not to have to go back north of the Yangtze River. The day before, my crack team of site survey professionals – including the intrepid Mr. Lu and incisive the Ms. Zhang – had suffered a most heavily polluted day researching potential locations ...
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Thursday, March 8th, 2007
A China manufacturing site selection project has me traveling the next few days through Western Jiangsu Province and Anhui Province. I first made landfall in Nanjing, capitol of Jiangsu Province, in the extreme west of the region. Nanjing is about a three to three-and-a-half hour drive to the west of ...
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