Full Contents - October 2007


COVER STORY [Premium content]

SPECIAL REPORT [Premium content]

  • Room for growth

  • Future profits from real estate development may be more easily found in second- and third-tier cities

  • Safer waters: Lower-tier prospects

  • With just two decades of history to its name, China’s real estate market is still very much in its youth.

PERSPECTIVE [Premium content]

  • The rise of ‘Davos East’

  • As host of the World Economic Forum’s latest initiative, Dalian wants to be seen as the very model of a modern Chinese city

Dispatches

  • Shortsighted stopgap

  • Measures to protect Argentina’s industry from China’s manufacturing power are shortsighted

  • Disorderly competition

  • An effective competition law needs an independent administrator, not another interagency turf war

View from Europe

  • Price isn’t everything

  • Concerns over Chinese product safety loom large on the minds of Europe’s consumer-conscious administrators

REPORTS [Premium content]

  • Future shock

  • As marketers blindly rush to sell their products to a shrinking Chinese youth market, they may be missing a vital demographic

  • Corporate controls

  • China is developing ways to allow state interests to coexist with global standards of governance

  • In a giant’s shadow

  • Mobile game makers are struggling to make ends meet in a market dominated by carriers

  • A steamless train

  • A scheme for mainland individuals to buy Hong Kong stocks could be more hype than substance

  • Value or volume?

  • Foreign life insurers have big plans for China but the market is taking time to mature

  • Help the aged: Pension potential

COMMENTARY

  • Upward spiral

  • China must get a grip on its food supply if it is to reel in rising inflation

REVIEW

China Buzz

Fat Dragon

News Review

Politics & Society

  • China’s party Down Under

  • When the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit concluded in Sydney on September 8, President Hu Jintao surely left the meeting a satisfied man.

Punditry

QUESTION & ANSWER [Premium content]

  • Working with what we’ve got

  • Conservation is the way forward for China’s strained environment, says ERM’s Shanghai Regional Manager David Arthur

SPOTLIGHT

  • A tale of two countries

  • A very Indian business model could be the key to boosting China’s business process outsourcing industry

  • Thinking outside the box

  • Prakash Menon, president of the National Institute for Information Technology, on education in China

CULTURE

Book Review

  • Troubling Taiwan

  • A War Like No Other: The Truth About China’s Challenge to America, by Richard C. Bush and Michael E. O’Hanlon; John Wiley & Sons; US$25.95

Travels to the West

  • FROM HERE TO THERE

  • 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 still in the Yangtze Gorges in the west of Hubei province

MARKETS

Podium

Red Dragon Fund

  • Winds of change?

  • Time to preach caution. Share supply could well be on course to trump share demand for once

FOCUS

Guest Word

Report

  • All about the brand

  • The luxury car segment is dominated by foreign brands but China’s automakers hope to catch a break

  • Members only

  • Luxury car clubs offer a social network for the elite

  • After the buy

  • How much does it really cost to maintain a high-end vehicle?

  • The need for speed

  • Chinese people are becoming ever more willing to splash out in order to flaunt their status

Q&A

  • A brand apart

  • General Motors’ China sales chief on meeting the needs of local drivers

News briefs

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