Research & Analysis

By Joseph Luk Recent severe smog incidents in northeast China have cast the country’s environmental problems back into the spotlight. In Harbin, air pollution was so thick—surpassing World Health Organization standards by more than 40 times—that the municipal government closed roads, shuttered airports and suspended classes in more than 2,000 schools on October 22. In […]

The Boeing Company has secured $20.7 billion in commitments from Chinese state-owned airlines and private leasing firms, according to an exclusive Reuters report. The deal represents China’s first orders for Boeing’s upgraded short-haul aircraft, the 737 Max. According to multiple sources, Boeing expects about 200 orders from the confidential deal. Although details of the Chinese […]

By Steven Feldman  Editor’s Note: This essay is excerpted from the book, Trouble in the Middle: American-Chinese Business Relations, Culture, Conflict, and Ethics and reprinted with permission of Routledge. Read an interview with the author here. The American-Chinese disagreements over intellectual property rights (IPR) are clear examples of “trouble in the middle,” though the problems […]

A business professor answers questions about the cultural and ethical issues of American-Chinese business relations and discusses how American companies are managing these differences. By Christina Nelson  The problems multinational companies face while doing business in China are well documented. The role of government in business and how different cultures communicate are just a few […]

Event: Chinese Renewable Energy Conference Date: October 24-26, 2013 Location: Wuxi, China Organizer: National Energy Administration; Jiangsu Provincial Department of Commerce; Jiangsu Provincial CCPIT Web: http://www.crecexpo.com/ Contact: Liu Yang Email: [email protected] Phone: 0510-81827276

Technical skills, cross-cultural knowledge, and language abilities can help expats in China find positions in a competitive market. By Abraham Sorock  While foreigners once occupied a privileged position at the center of business in China, companies today are dedicated to hiring and training local talent to staff their operations. This does not mean, however, that […]

Chinese search giant Baidu, Inc. announced on Monday that it would launch a new wealth management platform called Baifa on October 28. The platform will allow individual investors to make deposits as small as RMB 1 ($0.16) and earn annual returns of up to 8 percent, according to Netease News. That 8 percent guarantee has […]

Chinese companies will soon be allowed to invest in British nuclear power plants and eventually hold majority ownership stakes, according to an announcement made yesterday by Britain’s finance minister George Osborne. Osborne, who has already inked multiple banking deals in his five-day trade mission to China, said that any Chinese investments would have to meet […]

China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) signed an MOU today with Russia’s Rosneft to form a joint venture for exploration and production in Rosneft’s eastern Siberian fields. CNPC will own 49 percent of the venture, which will take over fields formerly run by Rosneft’s Taas Yuriakh unit. Output there is likely to reach 6 million metric […]

China’s Wumart Stores Inc. will acquire 36 stores and a 9.99 percent stake in Thai grocery retailer CP Lotus in a share-swap deal worth $374 million, the companies announced yesterday. CP Lotus, whose parent CP Group is weighing a bid for Hong Kong supermarket chain ParknShop, will retain 19 retail stores in southern China and […]