Archive for the ‘Tianjin’ Category

China Has Some Parts Missing

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

My first column has come out in Eurobiz Magazine. Eurobiz is the magazine of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China. The April column is about the challenges Western companies have encountered in setting up operations in the interior of China. The column will always be focused on real-time ...

India’s Democratic Edge Over China in Services Outsourcing

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" ...

Tianjin TEDA Ranked Number 1

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 ...

Tianjin: No Longer the City That Time Forgot

Monday, January 28th, 2008

A recent report in Xinhua News caught my eye about the soaring growth of the Tianjin Port. “Yu Rumin, president of the Tianjin Port (Group) Co. Ltd., attributed the rapid growth to the development of the newly-established Binhai New Area, a state-level industrial zone approved in Tianjin.” Located in ...