In charge by Praziquantel via Flickr With an economic growth of 7.9 percent in the second quarter of 2009, China is a must for global retail companies, despite its lower base. And in China, women under 35 rule the wallet, says Shaun Rein in his latest article for Forbes.  ThatRead More →

Beijing, not yet ready via Wikipedia Is China going to lead the world? That questions is asked frequently, but Victor Shih is pretty sure in his piece in the Wall Street Journal that China is far from ready. But leadership does not depend on cash reserves alone. To lay credibleRead More →

Image via Wikipedia Rupert Hoogewerf is interviewed by Shanghai Urbananonymy on his ten-year operation of documenting wealth in China with his Hurun or China Rich List. What are the differences between the British and the Chinese well-to-do? The entrepreneurs in China are all first generation. In Britain the Duke ofRead More →

Rupert Murdoch via Wikipedia Rupert Murdoch was the lastest Western corporate tycoon in Beijing, asking the Chinese authorities to crack down on fake products and the infringement of intellectual copyrights. Shaun Rein sets him straight and explains in Forbes why fake DVD’s and Gucci bags are not dissapearing from China’sRead More →

Kaiser Kuo by Fantake via Flickr Just like in September, our top-10 ranking of most-sought speakers sees this month a relative huge shift, including a new number one: Kaiser Kuo. Shaun Rein has been holding this place since we started the ranking last year after we started the China SpeakersRead More →

Rupert Hoogewerf by Getty Images via Daylife China’s rich have not only survived successfully the financial crisis, they are getting richer very fast, says Rupert Hoogewerf, the author of the annual Hurun report, documenting for a decade the well-to-do, according to Reuters. The country now counts 130 billionaires, up from 101 lastRead More →

Image by doncorleon via Flickr Corruption in China was long seen in the foreign business community as an unavoidable nuisance. But now the Chinese government has been coming after huge companies like Rio Tinto, Coca-Cola and McKinsey, avoiding corruption has become – even more than in the past – aRead More →

Image via Wikipedia Non-performing loans have been dealt with effectively over the past decade, but as those old loans and the current financial rescue packages are added up, China’s financial system is heading for an unprecedented stress-test, writes Arthur Kroeber in the Financial Times. Kroeber: Chinese NPLs can be dividedRead More →

William Bao Bean by Fantake via Flickr A good introduction by William Bao Bean, partner at Softbank India&China Holdings, talking about how companies can survive in the current financial crisis. The video dates from May 22, 2009, so some parts are a bit outdated. But a few of the waysRead More →

Warren Buffett by Getty Images via Daylife Wang Chuanfu, heading China’s BYD car manufacturer, junped 102 places on Rupert Hoogewerf‘s annual rich list Hurun, after his venture got the backing of super-investor Warren Buffett, reports Bloomberg. Buffett increased his earlier investment with 500 percent.Wang is now worth 5.1 billion US dollar,Read More →

Zhang Lijia by Fantake via Flickr Celebrity author Zhang Lijia recalls for the weblog China Beat, at trip to the new Beijing museum, dedicated to a famous song, “Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China”. (See below). The museum complex felt like a mini-‘Red Base’. By the footRead More →

Getty Images via Daylife Shaun Rein uses the two stabbing incidents in Beijing to explain how government in China works. The National Day on October 1, when The People’s Republic of China celebrates its 60th birthday, is a crucial moment for many careers of officials, he writes in Forbes.While itRead More →