Archive for the ‘Suzhou’ Category
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
The 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 ...
Posted in China Graphs, Dalian, Qingdao, Suzhou, China Development Trends | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Channel 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 ...
Posted in Suzhou, China Development Trends | No Comments »
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 ...
Posted in China Graphs, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Suzhou, China Development Trends | No Comments »
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" ...
Posted in Xian, Nanjing, Services Outsourcing Trends, China IT Outsourcing, China R&D, China BPO, Hangzhou, Dalian, Chengdu, Chongqing, Tianjin, Suzhou, Qingdao, Wuhan, China Development Trends | 4 Comments »
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Rich 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 ...
Posted in China Innovation, Suzhou, Tianjin, China Development Trends | No Comments »
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
A 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 ...
Posted in China Innovation, China R&D, Suzhou, China Development Trends | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
China has been breaking a lot of weather records this past week with the amount of snow the country has had and for the low temperatures, from north to south at the start of the largest migration of human beings in the world, every year. Even as far south as ...
Posted in Suzhou, Expat Life | No Comments »
Monday, January 28th, 2008
Back in November 2007 The Humanaught wrote that l’il ole Suzhou is now the 20th most expensive city in Asia. ECA, a human resources association, performed the survey of worldwide cost of living rankings. Beijing and Shanghai came in at positions 7 and 8, respectively.
The report reads:
“In China, ...
Posted in Suzhou, Chengdu, Chongqing, China Development Trends, Expat Life | 2 Comments »
Sunday, October 14th, 2007
With tightening land policies and environmental regulations, Chinese administrators of Economic Development Zones (EDZs) are getting picky about who they accept into their investment areas.
I was recently with a client in the Hangzhou High and New Technology Zone to investigate leasing factory work space in which they can set ...
Posted in Hangzhou, Suzhou, Chongqing, China Development Trends | 6 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in China IT Outsourcing, China BPO, China R&D, Services Outsourcing Trends, Nanjing, Suzhou, Dalian, Hangzhou, China Development Trends | 2 Comments »
