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Chinese Outbound Investment in Real Estate: Brick by Brick

October 16, 2014 By Li Hui

Anbang Insurance’s purchase of New York’s iconic Waldorf Astoria Hotel stunned many, but it’s only the tip of the Chinese outbound investment iceberg. In the first of our series on Chinese outbound investment, we take a look at the biggest real estate purchases made by Chinese companies.

Filed Under: All Articles, Finance, Infographics, Know China, Real Estate Tagged With: Chinese Outbound Investment, Fosun, Hotel, Investment, Outbound Market, Ping An Insurance, Real Estate, Slider, Wanda

CHINA ROUND-UP: Workforce Shrinks Again; Lenovo Buys IBM Server; And Big Four Auditors Barred

January 24, 2014 By Major Tian

The week that was: China workforce declines two years in a row; trust product distributed by ICBC faces default;  Lenovo strikes China’s biggest tech deal by buying an IBM branch; and the Big Four’s China affiliates are barred from US businesses. Lenovo buys another piece of IBM Nine years after the iconic brand of ThinkPad changed […]

Filed Under: All Articles, China Round-up, Digital Economy, eCommerce, Finance, Know China, Mergers and Acquisitions, Society, Stock Exchange, Technology, Winning in China Tagged With: Alibaba.com, Hotel, IBM, Internet, IPOs, JD.com, labor market, Lenovo, SEC, Slider

“Beggar Thy (Hotel) Neighbor”: Some Hotels in China are Expanding at Any Cost

September 16, 2013 By Brian Viard

InterContiental, Hotels, Shanghai

How opening new hotels in China could damage the entire industry In late May, InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) celebrated the opening of the IHG Shanghai Ruijin hotel. However, IHG’s spirits were probably dampened a bit by the bad news it received a week earlier. It was ordered to pay RMB 150 million to real estate […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Economics, ExpertSpeak, Invisible Hand Revealed, Know China, Real Estate Tagged With: externality, Hotel, InterContinental, Invisible Hand Revealed, Shanghai Yaoda

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