Notice: Workshops Available in Wujiang
Thursday, March 27th, 2008Wujiang, a city just south of Suzhou - within the Suzhou municipality - has ready-built workshops available for lease. Contact us for further information.
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Wujiang, a city just south of Suzhou - within the Suzhou municipality - has ready-built workshops available for lease. Contact us for further information.
Another Cup of “The Starbucks Factor”
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008I coined the term "The Starbucks Factor" during an interview in last year's June edition of the China Economic Review. I said it tongue-in-cheek, half-jokingly, a peripheral observation I've made in the scores of second-, third- and fourth-tier cities and Economic Development Zones I've visited throughout China: cities that seem ...
The Buddha and the Hard Sell
Thursday, March 13th, 2008I was as terribly vexed as I’ve ever been in a Buddhist temple. Spring Festival, snows melting off, birds thawing, some even chirping. I thought it would be a good idea to visit a local Buddhist Temple, put in a few good words to Guan Yin, Goddess of Compassion, and ...
Fajitas, Magueritas and China IT Outsourcing Centers
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008It’s not often Chinese government officials invite me out to eat Mexican food, replete with tasty Magaritas. But there I was, stuffing my face with chicken fajitas on a Saturday night at Suzhou Industrial Park’s (SIP) newly opened Casa Zoe Tex Mex with two officials from nearby Wujiang Economic Trade ...
Graphic China: Foreign Direct Investment Clusters
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008The World Bank showed in its 2006 report “China Governance, Investment Climate, and Harmonious Society: Competitiveness Enhancements for 120 Cities in China” that a great deal of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in China clusters in areas in which the GDP per capita for the location is about rmb8,000 (US$1,100) (see ...
S.I.P. Inspires T.E.C. and Builds V.S.E.Z.
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008Channel NewsAsia reported at the end of last month that the Chinese and Singaporean governments have decided on an encore performance of jointly developing an Industrial/Residential Zone in Tianjin called an "eco-city". ”When completed, there will be some 300,000 residents living and working in energy-efficient buildings in Tianjin's Binhai New ...
Graphic China: Shanghai Moves Up the Value Chain
Thursday, February 7th, 2008I 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 ...
India’s Democratic Edge Over China in Services Outsourcing
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008While 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" ...
Tianjin TEDA Ranked Number 1
Thursday, January 31st, 2008Rich Brubaker over at All Roads Lead to China posted an article in which the Chinese government ranked Tianjina's TEDA (Tianjin Economic Development Area) number one for the tenth year running of all state-approved Economic Development Zones (EDZs) in China. There are 52 nationally-approved zones, with Tibet Lhasa coming online ...
Can China Compete Against Nano-thinking?
Thursday, January 31st, 2008A group of Western engineers and I were sitting around Blue Marlin recently marveling at the low price of the new Indian car by Tata, a mere US$2,500. It’s called the Nano. "The Americans, the Japanese, they all said it couldn't be done, getting a car to the twenty-five hundred ...
