Full Contents - September 2007
COVER STORY [Premium content]
Pharmaceuticals
Take with caution
- Will recent product safety scandals finally bring order to China’s drug market? Big Pharma has its fingers crossed
Servers and developers
- China is carving out a niche in the pharma outsourcing market while local developers still wait for lift off
Generic growth
- China is coming from behind and challenging India in an industry it has traditionally dominated
Patent power: IP protection
- Chinese law and patents and pharmaceutical compounds
Test cases: Clinical trials in China
- For pharma firms looking to test their products on a blank canvas, China has a large number of "naïve" patients that have not been exposed to other treatments.
SPECIAL REPORT [Premium content]
Commodities
Commodities are king
- Mining companies are rushing to market to take advantage of a commodities boom
The coal minefield
- Stock market listings are part of a wider plan to streamline China’s coal industry
PERSPECTIVE [Premium content]
Beijing Calling
The murky world of a policy lender
- Now a shareholder in Barclays Bank, China Development Bank is a lender with its finger in many different pies
Dispatches
Few alms for the poor
- Income inequality may be soaring in China but rural India is still more finely balanced
Supply Chain Watch
Chasing a modern Silk Road
- Recent investments must become future reforms if cargo is to be moved efficiently overland from Asia to Europe
REPORTS [Premium content]
Environment
Costly degradation
- With Beijing stalling on its Green GDP, plenty more pollution cost calculations have emerged
Food
Where’s the beef?
- China doesn’t have enough cattle to meet beef demands. Foreign exporters smell an opportunity
Macau
MICE trap
- With the Cotai Strip’s opening, Macau is looking to diversify from hard-core gambling towards business tourism
Rural reforms
Bridging the divide
- Rural reforms in a small village near Chengdu spurred social change that has won the city special zone status
Subprime crisis
Subprime time
- Chinese banks are well-insulated from the meltdown in America’s low-end mortgage market
Tobacco
Smoke and mirrors
- Big Tobacco must race against regulators and a global anti-smoking movement as it seeks salvation in China
COMMENTARY
Behind the wall
- The A-share market is closing on 5,000 points and in fine form. Or so you’d think
China’s place in the world
- This still has the potential to be China's century. But it will not be a straight-line ascent
REVIEW
Fat Dragon
Shopping overseas
- As Beijing invests its growing wealth, it may have more trouble with the nationalists at home than the protectionists abroad
News Review
Still soaring
- China's stock market soared while global exchanges tumbled on subprime woes
Cooling measures start to kick in
- Falling industrial output could mean the government's cooling policies are working
CDB hits the big time
- CDB's involvement in the ABN-Amro deal is a new strategy for the policy lender
Politics & Society
Product safety
Toy story
- After a suicide and two massive global recalls by US toy-maker Mattel, the product safety issue has reached a boiling point
Punditry
QUESTION & ANSWER [Premium content]
Robert Haddock
Voice of experience
- Opportunities abound in China’s technology sector but finding the right deal is never easy
SPOTLIGHT
Middle East
Culture & commerce
- How a quaint city in southern China bridges trade between Muslims and Chinese
At your service
- CEO Choe Peng Sum of Frasers Hospitality on the in-demand hospitality service apartments sector
CULTURE
Book Review
Serve the People! by Yan Lianke
Solid service
- There was a moment towards the end of the Cultural Revolution when nobody seemed to understand exactly what was going on.
Travels to the West
That's capitalism!
- Graham Earnshaw walks from Shanghai to Tibet when he has the time, always starting from the last place he stopped. This month we find him near the Three Gorges Dam, Hubei province
MARKETS
Podium
Danone's response
Fact Sheet - the Dispute with Mr. Zong Qinghou
- Danone responds to our article
Law
Danone v. Wahaha
- Steven M. Dickinson on the lessons to be learned from the tensions within China’s largest beverage joint venture
Red Dragon Fund
Musical chairs
- China’s stock market has made strong gains but everyone still dances to the institutions’ tune
FOCUS
Guest Word
In the zone
- Industrial zone real estate tips and market trends
Report
Two become one
- China’s first cross-border park links trade under two political systems
Changzhou rising
- Shanghai too expensive? Try neighboring Changzhou
Electric dreams
- How does China’s “Silicon Valley” stack up against the real thing?
The best of the west
- Chengdu hopes to develop as a technology and logistics hotspot
Reaching for the summit
- Suzhou’s ambitions to become a tier-one city
Q&A
Understanding the China market
- The executive director of logistics services at CB Richard Ellis identifies the trends and opportunities of China’s industrial zones
News briefs
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