Full Contents - November 2006


SPECIAL REPORT [Premium content]

  • Mother of invention?

  • Innovation is high on the government's agenda. But can Beijing really plant the seeds and then let the garden grow on its own?

PERSPECTIVE [Premium content]

  • New sheriff rides into town

  • Henry Paulson has started as US treasury secretary with a bang, using personal ties to make progress with Beijing

  • Cross-strait talent search

  • With a talent shortage on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, direct flights between China and Taiwan would help

  • Out of sight, not out of mind

  • The US midterm elections are fast approaching and a preoccupied Congress seems to have passed on making China the protectionists' whipping boy. For now.

  • Stuck in the bargain basement

  • Until Chinese firms master the long game of brand-building, they will remain locked in cut price competition and unable to challenge the world's best

  • PERSPECTIVE / Intrigue at the ministers' towers

  • CORRUPTION SCANDAL TAKE ONE: The corruption purge is a political putsch. If the investigation actually took things seriously, there would be no one left to run the country

  • What lies beneath, what lies ahead

  • CORRUPTION SCANDAL TAKE TWO: The demise of Chen Liangyu shows that the government is serious about cracking down on corruption. Shanghai could pay a high price

  • SECTOR REPORTS

  • Media, Trade, Auto, Macro, Energy, Banking

COMMENTARY

REVIEW

  • Another new dawn

  • A new prime minister and a nuclear test have smoothed relations across the Sea of Japan. But for how long? And does it really matter?

  • The other shoe

  • European footwear manufactures have to learn to play by new rules

  • Driven online

  • The Internet market is growing with Chinese characteristics

  • B is for bleak

  • China's B-share market has been in a rut for over a decade. Sorting it out is neither easy nor a priority

  • Land down under

  • Affordability, accessibility and stability have made Australia a popular hunting ground for increasingly outward-looking property investors in China

  • Spreading the wealth

  • Wealth managers are unable to tap a Chinese population in need of investment options but in expats they may have found a lucrative customer base

  • Venturing into capital

  • Awash with money and scrapping over a limited number of deals, China's venture capitalists may be waiting for the bubble to burst

  • Fast forward

  • New regulations being introduced at China's ports allow companies to save money by reducing the number of links in the supply chain

Fat Dragon

  • A tale of two cities?

  • Now that the dust has settled on the sacking of Chen Liangyu, the Shanghai party boss, for corruption, the highest-level such demotion in at least a decade, what does it all mean?
Top
To receive the best China business news that the market has to offer,
subscribe to the China Economic Review.