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Shuang Shan Update: ChemChina’s $43 billion cash bid to acquire Syngenta was green lighted by Syngenta’s board of directors Wednesday, making it the largest acquisition of a foreign company by Chinese business. As part of the deal, ChemChina will pay $465 plus a special dividend of $4.91 per share. The deal is currently waiting for […]
Operational efficiency, created by “greening” business
operations, can create direct economic benefits for businesses in China, where
energy costs, as opposed to fixed labor costs in the US, can be a company’s main
expense.For example, in Beijing, commercial electricity is about
twice as expensive as the
average in the United States. On the other hand, the hourly cost of labor
is about four times cheaper in Beijing according to minimum wage reports.Becoming green is often associated with, and do
Shuang Shan Alibaba Group Holding Limited agreed last Friday to buy out Internet television company Youku Tudou Inc. for $3.7 billion in cash, at a premium price of $27.60 per share. Already holding 18.3 percent of Youku Tudou before the deal, Alibaba now has full ownership of Youku Tudou allowing it to expand in the […]
Shuang Shan Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China Ltd (COMAC) unveiled the prototype of C919, China’s first large passenger jet, at a hangar near Shanghai Pudong Airport on Monday. China’s first narrow-body, twin-engine passenger jet can carry up to 174 passengers, can fly up to 3,451 miles, and has already received 517 orders from 21 customers. […]
Shuang Shan Three Chinese companies have expressed interest in bidding for Starwood Hotel & Resort Worldwide, a deal that would mark the largest Chinese acquisition of US company ever. Shanghai Jin Jiang International Hotels (Group) Company Ltd, HNA Group, and China Investment Corporation (CIC) each submitted a proposal to Beijing over the past two months […]
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Shuang Shan Baidu Inc.—the majority shareholder of Qunar Cayman Island Ltd—agreed to swap shares worth nearly $5.9 billion with Ctrip.com International Ltd in exchange for a 25 percent stake in Ctrip.com. At the completion of the deal that was revealed on Monday, Ctrip will hold a 45 percent voting interest in Qunar, and Qunar and […]
Shuang Shan China’s three largest telecom companies sold $36 billion worth of tower assets to China Tower Corporation, a joint venture set up by the companies themselves, to expand 4G network coverage and boost efficiency. China Towers offered the three state-owned companies (China Mobile Ltd, China Telecom Ltd, and China Unicom Group Co) a mix […]
Shuang Shan Alibaba Group Holding Limited’s cloud computing arm AliCloud opened its second Silicon Valley data center on October 9 as part of the e-commerce giant’s billion-dollar investment in its cloud computing business. The data center will help Chinese companies expand in the United States, while allowing Alibaba to offer its cloud computing service to […]
Shuang Shan Meituan.com and Dianping Holdings Ltd, two of China’s largest online local service platforms, have agreed to set up a new company—creating the largest Online to Offline (O2O) business in China. The merger, one of the largest deals ever in the Chinese Internet industry, is estimated to be worth as much as $20 billion […]
