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Uber in China: In for the Long Haul?

December 22, 2014 By Major Tian

Uber has plunged headlong into China’s immensely complex and hypercompetitive transportation and taxi app market. Can it win?

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Branding, Connections, Globalization, Strategy Tagged With: Baidu, Business Models, Car Rental, Competition, Didi Dache, Government Regulation, Kuaidi Dache, Slider, Taxi App, Uber

The Variable Interest Entity seems like a “Deliberate Nod and Wink”

October 29, 2014 By Mark Dreyer

Michael Brennan, a renowned academic in finance, on the variable interest entity structure, China’s capital markets and the internationalization of the renminbi.

Filed Under: All Articles, Chinese Economy, Connections, Economy, Finance Tagged With: Banking System, Currency, Government Regulation, Inflation, Investment, IPO, Slider, Variable Interest Entities, VIEs

Face-off! MNCs versus Chinese Companies

September 9, 2014 By Suzanne Edwards

In China’s fast-changing business environment, multinational companies are finding it increasingly hard to compete with Chinese companies. Our experts offer strategy tips that will help MNCs navigate China’s business landscape. Multinational companies (MNCs) in China are finding it hard to navigate what is an increasingly rough terrain. The economy is slowing, the cost of doing business in China is rising, and to add […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, China, Connections, Intellectual Property, Marketing, Multinationals in China, Strategy Tagged With: Business Strategy, Chinese Company, Chinese Market, Competition, Government Regulation, IP, Localization, P&G, Pricing, Slider, Xiaomi

Shaun Rein on How China Will Become an Innovative Economy

August 25, 2014 By Major Tian

China is not known to be an innovative economy, but Shaun Rein, author of The End of Copycat China, believes that will change sooner than we know. Can you name one innovative project, one innovative change, or one innovative product that has come out of China? That was a challenge posed by US Vice-President Joe Biden, […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, China, Conversations, Entrepreneurship, ExpertSpeak, Finance, Innovation, Q&A Tagged With: Chinese Company, Copycat, Government Regulation, Huawei, Innovation, Investment, Slider, Start-ups, WeChat, Xiaomi

Online money transfers and the “Skype” of money

August 11, 2014 By Bennett Voyles

Companies like TransferWise and CurrencyFair are gaining popularity in the online money transfer market. Will such services disrupt traditional banking the same way Skype disrupted long-distance telephony? TransferWise, a start-up that offers a low-cost way for consumers to exchange currency, recently raised $25 million, bringing it one step closer to convincing consumers and investors that it really will […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Banking, Best Practice, Consumers, Economics, Finance, Know China Tagged With: Competition, Currency, CurrencyFair, Foreign Exchange, Government Regulation, PayPal, Skype, Slider, Start-ups, TransferWise, Western Union, World Bank

China Roundup: The Tesla China trademark row; raid on Mercedes-Benz; and rules for WeChat

August 8, 2014 By Major Tian

This week, Mercedes-Benz faced an anti-monopoly probe; the Tesla China trademark episode finally came to an end; WeChat got new rules for news while Line and Kakao Talk got axed in China; Xiaomi edged ahead of Samsung; and Priceline invested in Ctrip. For the China Policy Wonks…  The Chinese government made a lot of headlines this […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Automobile Industry, China Round-up, Digital Economy, Know China, Policy and Law, Technology Tagged With: Antimonopoly, Apple, Automobiles, Currency, Foreign Exchange, Government Regulation, Samsung, Shenzhen, Slider, Smartphone, Tesla, Uber, WeChat, Xiaomi

Aging Population in China: Having a Senior Moment

July 22, 2014 By Sarah O'Meara

The aging population in China needs a housing solution. So what’s stopping the industry from booming? Since the beginning of 2014, Jim Biggs has been living in a brand-new residential facility for senior citizens with dementia. He’s just 54 years old, and has no problem with his memory. Biggs, the managing director of Honghui Senior […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Demographics, Finance, Know China, Real Estate, Society Tagged With: Chinese Real Estate, Demographics, Elder Care, Government Regulation, Housing, Investment, Property, Real Estate, Slider

The Business of Urbanization in China

July 2, 2014 By Colin Shek

The government is preparing to throw billions into urbanization in China, but has it thought through the hardware challenges? Perhaps the most striking way to take in China’s startling urbanization is to sit in front of a computer and click through to Google’s Earth Engine. A search for Shanghai on the website brings up time-lapsed images […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Connections, Digital Economy, Emerging Economies, Environment, Innovation, Know China, Social Good, Society, Sustainability, Technology Tagged With: China Transition, Government Regulation, Infrastructure, Labor, labor market, Slider, Urbanization

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