October 2007
- COVER STORY [Premium]
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A legal legacy
China is putting the policy and personnel in place to meet the needs of a market economy -
Internal affairs
The Chinese Communist Party and the art of negotiation and compromise -
Serving two masters
China’s courts have made progress but certain institutional problems remain -
How it works: The one-party state
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The contenders
- SPECIAL REPORT [Premium]
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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.
- REPORTS [Premium]
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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
- QUESTION & ANSWER [Premium]
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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
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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
- MARKETS
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Dumping with Chinese characteristics
America is considering changes to its antidumping laws that would recognize the rise of China’s market economy -
Winds of change?
Time to preach caution. Share supply could well be on course to trump share demand for once
Podium
Red Dragon Fund
- FOCUS
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It’s all relative
ACNielsen on consumer behavior and China’s low- to high-end auto market -
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 -
Autos: News in brief
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A brand apart
General Motors’ China sales chief on meeting the needs of local drivers
Guest Word
Report
News briefs
Q&A
- OPINION [Premium]
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Price isn’t everything
Concerns over Chinese product safety loom large on the minds of Europe’s consumer-conscious administrators -
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 -
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
Dispatches
- COMMENTARY
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Upward spiral
China must get a grip on its food supply if it is to reel in rising inflation -
New faces
Party congress
- REVIEW
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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. -
Benvenuto, Chinese investor
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CHINA BUZZ
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Liquidity and inflation
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Safe selections
Private equity investment can be welcomed with open arms in China, provided that you pick the right sector -
Recalls in retreat
After a summer of lethal pet food, lead paint-coated Barbies and antifreeze toothpaste, the product safety crisis is moving ponderously towards resolution. -
Foreign fortunes
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An over-inflating economy?
Politics & Society
Fat Dragon
China Buzz
Punditry
News Review
- CULTURE
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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 -
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
Book Review
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- THE EDITORS' JOURNAL
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- Capitalist Roader Fund: Prognosticating on the eve of the National People's Congress (HOLD)
- Gay investment consulting in China
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