Full Contents - April 2007


SPECIAL REPORT [Premium content]

Agriculture

India

  • Next step forward

  • As India’s growth rate closes in on China’s, Delhi is looking to the Beijing model for ideas on how to maintain the pace and spread the wealth

  • Toast of the world

  • India and China may make up the largest market in the world but two-way trade still has a long way to go

  • No tears: Onion economics

  • India's version of the Big Mac index

PERSPECTIVE [Premium content]

Dispatches

  • Conflicting priorities

  • What was and wasn’t said by China’s legislators speaks volumes for the social and economic challenges that lie ahead

  • Warped by the media lens

  • Western news coverage of the Chinese political process is heavy on style but light on substance

View from Europe

  • Accentuating the positive

  • The EU has released yet another policy document on China. Can this one provide the guidance that European industry needs?

Web Worm

  • Great Xpectations

  • The Microsoft Xbox gaming platform is spearheading a bid to win the hearts, minds and hard-earned wages of Chinese internet users

REPORTS [Premium content]

  • Cooking the books

  • Companies operating in China know all about fraud, but many don’t have the systems to deal with it

  • Building a backbone

  • Manufacturers and retailers are wanted in China’s interior

  • Staying home

  • Venture capitalists and private equity players are looking to onshore investments in renminbi

  • Dreaming in code

  • A new technology could unlock China’s lucrative mobile advertising market

COMMENTARY

REVIEW

Fat Dragon

  • Don't believe the hype

  • The real reasons for China's caution on the revaluation issue are employment and rural incomes

News Review

  • The big drop

  • What happened when the market dropped, and what happens now

  • Flexible forex

  • China will create a body to invest its massive foreign reserves

  • Raising the rates

  • Regulators take more steps to control expansive growth

Punditry

QUESTION & ANSWER [Premium content]

  • Focused knowledge

  • Demand for project managers in China is growing. One organization is ready and eager to fill the gap

SPOTLIGHT

Japan

  • Scaling new heights

  • Will Japanese-style mixed-use buildings work in China? Japanese developer Mori is betting on it with its long-delayed World Financial Center in Shanghai

  • Hotel competition heats up

  • President and CEO of JAL Hotels, Mamoru Tsutsumi, talks luxury hotels in China

CULTURE

Book Review

The Coming China Wars

Travels to the West

  • Into the Gorges

  • Graham Earnshaw is walking from Shanghai to Tibet when he has the time, starting always from the last place he stopped. This month we find him near Dangyang, Hubei province

MARKETS

Industry Overview

Automobiles

  • Shifting through the gears

  • Since the government announced plans to develop local manufacturers more than a decade ago, auto production and ownership have exploded

Red Dragon Fund

FOCUS

Guest Word

  • Future shock

  • What are the growth prospects and challenges for China’s travel and tourism industry?

Report

  • Cabin comforts

  • Flying in comfort is becoming easier and easier these days. We look at some of the innovations airlines servicing China are introducing

  • Sensible service

  • Serviced apartments can be a sensible choice for traveling executives

  • A better MICE trap

  • Executive travelers are flocking to China for its MICE advantages

  • The beauty of boutique

  • China’s independent hotels are an increasingly popular refuge for business travelers

  • Painless travel

  • A survival guide for business travelers new to life on the road in China

Q&A

  • The French connection

  • Air France’s China general manager Frank Legré says his airline is popular in China for its excellent connecting flights to Africa and South America

  • Room for growth

  • Gerhard Zimmer, general manager at the Sofitel Wanda Beijing, a new ultra high-end property that opens this summer, is optimistic about China’s luxury hotel market prospects

News briefs

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