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China movies hit Hollywood blockbusters hard – Ben Cavender
China has become a major market for film fans, but increasingly their taste is going into the direction of domestic movies, leaving Hollywood blockbusters behind, tells business analyst Ben Cavender at the WSJ. How domestic movies makers changed from an underdog into a winner on the China market.Read More →
PR training not enough for government officials – Zhang Lijia
Author Zhang Lijia ran into a professor who gives PR training to local government officials in charge of guarding stability, or weiwen. Important that they learn about communication and PR, but not enough, she writes on her weblog.Read More →
China, still a magnet for foreign firms – Arthur Kroeber
Doubts on whether China is still the place to be for foreign companies are on the rise in media reports, especially now GlaxoSmithKline is on the chop board. Economic analyst Arthur Kroeber believes those headlines are deceiving and he explains in ChinaFile that foreign firm are profitable and want to expand.Read More →
China: a different kind of power – Shaun Rein
Americans tend to get worried, as China’s economic muscles are strengthening. No reasons, tells business analyst Shaun Rein in the New York Times, in “Room for Debate” the Americans. China is a different kind of power, not alike the US power.Read More →
Branding blurs difference between state-owned and private companies – Rupert Hoogewerf
Private companies have for long been trailing behind their state-owned competitors, but times are changing, says chief researcher Rupert Hoogewerf of the Hurun Brand List. Branding is blurring that old difference, although the process is slower than expected, he tells in WARC.Read More →
China’s consumers move away from blink – Shaun Rein
Paris and Europe in general are losing track as hot spots for buying luxury goods, as the crisis hits China’s middle class, and consumers move from luxury goods to lifestyle, tells business analyst Shaun Rein in WSJ. “Why buying expensive goods, if you cannot have clean water and air?”Read More →
Bribes are part of the health care business model – Shaun Rein
Giving bribes to doctors and hospitals is illegal, and goes against the beautiful mission statements many pharmaceutical companies have written. But if you want to expand your drug business in China, there is not other way than paying bribes, tells business analyst Shaun Rein in NPR.Read More →
China Mobile tops again Hurun top-200 brands – Rupert Hoogewerf
The Hurun Research Institute publish yesterday its annual top-200 Chinese brands, with China Mobile for the sixth time in a top-position since the start of the ranking in 2007, tells Hurun founder Rupert Hoogewerf in the Global Times.Read More →
Inflation overtakes luxury good growth – Rupert Hoogewerf
For the first time in a decade growth of luxury goods in China has stalled, as inflation is larger than the recorder growth, says China’s rich list founder Rupert Hoogewerf, and composer of the China Luxury Goods Price Index in the Shanghai Daily. Causes: the fight against corruption and the economic downturn.Read More →
Pork is one of the silliest problems in US-China relations – Arthur Kroeber
China-bashing occurs in the odd years, notes China analyst Arthur Kroeber in ChinaFile, because in the even years – election years – US politicians have to focus on problems American really care about. This week, in 2013, the US Senate scrutinized the Smithfield-Shuanghui pork deal, one of the more sillier problems in US-China relations, writes Kroeber.Read More →
Bribery is endemic in pharma – Ben Cavender
GlaxoSmithKline found itself in the hot seat, after China’s authorities started an investigation into its bribery practices and one of its executives was broadcasted on central tv, confessing his crimes. But in some industries, including pharma, bribery is endemic, tells marketing analyst Ben Cavender at CNN.Read More →
Action needed for elderly parents – Zhang Lijia
Earlier this month China’s government took the extraordinary step of forcing children to visits their parents regularly by law. Author Zhang Lijia looks in The Guardian back on how filial relations in China have been changing dramatically over the past two decades. Action is needed, she writes.Read More →