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CKGSB Business Conditions Index for October 2018: Plunging Confidence

November 19, 2018 By CKGSB

In October, the CKGSB Business Conditions Index (BCI) dropped slightly from the worst reading to date in September, from 41.9 to 41.4. Although not quite as dramatic a decline as the previous month, the deterioration of conditions for doing business in China should not be underestimated. It shows that the majority of sampled companies, some of the most competitive private businesses in China, are pessimistic about their prospects for the next six months.

Filed Under: All Articles, BCI, Chinese Economy Tagged With: BCI, Macroeconomics, SMEs

Promoting Innovation in Society

May 8, 2013 By Bennett Voyles

How do you kickstart innovation? Here are some pointers Beyond the law of supply and demand, one of the few things that most economists and policymakers agree on is that innovation is a very good thing. Most authorities acknowledge that the tremendous gains in lifespan and living standards made over the past 300 years have […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Best Practice, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Intellectual Property, Talent Tagged With: Copycat, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, IP, Shanzhai, Slider, SMEs, University

The Money Squeeze: China’s tightening Credit Market

May 2, 2013 By Suzanne Edwards

The first signs of light emerge amidst the dark prospects for private enterprises in China’s ever-tightening credit market It’s been a miserable few months for financing in China’s private sector. A growing number of debt defaults by companies has spurred regulatory crackdowns on the unofficial lending sector, sometimes called ‘shadow banking’, which has sustained (not […]

Filed Under: All Articles, Chinese Economy, Connections, Economy, Finance, Private Equity Tagged With: Agricultural Bank of China, ANZ, Bank of China, Banks, China Construction Bank, China Everbright Bank, China Merchants Bank, China Minsheng Banking Corp, Citibank, credit, HSBC, Slider, SMEs, Standard Chartered

Labor in China: Moving on up

January 19, 2012 By Jen Wang

    As manufacturing sector gets more sophisticated, companies will have to break down the barriers between low-wage and skilled labor in China.   “In this industry, it’s just one or two heroes directing a bunch of knuckleheads,” says Peng Wen, a technician at a Winto Ceramics subsidiary factory in Guangdong Province’s Foshan city. Peng’s […]

Filed Under: 2012, All Articles, Employment, Know China, Manufacturing Tagged With: Foshan, Growth, Guangdong, Industry, Migrant Workers, Skilled Labor, SMEs, Vocational Training

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