Speakers Corner

January 26, 2010
Real estate: China's catch-22
Real estate are the main source for local governments to get money, and the lingering crisis because of excessive spending might be hard to solve, says Victor Shih in NPR. China is having a property crisis of its own, much different from that in the United States, but no less severe.
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Su, Brian
China expert advisor at the Artisan Business Group

travels from Springfield, Illinois, US

A US-based China expert with key experience in the country's economic development and business climate, Mr. Brian Su has helped many US delegations to visit China and helped to host visiting delegations from China in the US.

Prior to founding Artisan Business Group, Mr. Su served Illinois governor Jim Edgar and assisted him in his trade to in 1996 and helped him host a numbers of Chinese government and trade delegations.

Before coming to the U.S. in 1989, Mr. Su worked as a marketing manager for China Non-Ferrous Metals Import and Export Corporation. He has a MPA degree from the University of Illinois at Springfield in the U.S., and a Bachelor degree in English from Guizhou University in China. He is fluent in Chinese Mandarin and English. His extensive network of Chinese government and business connections, together with the amalgam of his Chinese background, U.S. education and multinational work experience, leave him well placed to bridge the business knowledge gap between the two cultures. Mr. Su is able to give his clients a unique inside view of what is happening in China found nowhere else. Mr. Su is also a public speaker, speaking on a wide range of China/Asia-related business and culture topics.