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Thursday, November 1st, 2007

The November issue of China Economic Review is now out, online and in print.

Our cover story looks at the increasingly attractive cleantech space in China. Investors and entrepreneurs alike are piling into the solar, wind energy and water treatment sectors. We also scope out the government’s lofty environmental and renewable energy targets and ask experts if they’re really feasible.

The rather grandly titled Lord Mayor of London does a Q&A with us this month.

In reports, check out our look at the QDII funds scene, new rules governing exit strategies for foreign investors, and the fascinating topic of China’s backstreet banks, among others.

Columnist Steve Dickinson confronts the myths shrouding China’s legal system, Ken DeWoskin takes the measure of sovereign funds and Tom Doctoroff looks at marketing in the service of a harmonious society.

Our new Investment page highlights the increasingly important, and shifting, role of private equity in Asia.

Don’t miss our healthcare Focus and the handy Review section, which rounds up the last month’s major happenings.

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Hot off the press

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

The August issue of China Economic Review is now out, online and in print.

Our cover story is on the much ballyhooed Olympics, which is a year away. We have company profiles of national champions Lenovo and Li Ning, plus a look at the games’ impact on marketing, technology and China’s public relations situation (Genocide Olympics, anyone?). Given the euphoric state of the markets today, we also have a crystal-gazing piece on the possibility of a post-Olympics crash.

We have a special report on retail banking, with a focus on China Merchant Bank, which is the local pioneer in that area.

China Development Brief’s closure gets highlighted, inadvertantly, in a report on NGOs in China, and in our commentary.

Our columnists are in full force. The mysterious Web Worm resurfaces for his quarterly take on tech and telecom, this time worming his way through the 3G situation here. Philip Bowring wonders if Taiwan’s presidential election next year could lead to reconciliation with Beijing while Duncan Freeman writes on elections in Europe and their impact on China. Ken DeWoskin asks if the product safety imbroglio could knock China’s export machine off its pace. The always reliable Fat Dragon chips in with his piece on the Hong Kong handover anniversary.

In Podium, where minds smarter than ours give their expert advice, we have a guide to the Foreign Investment Partnership Law, which gives foreign firms a new way to enter the China market.

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Monday, July 2nd, 2007

July’s China Economic Review is now out. Read it online or peruse your physical, dead-tree copy in style and at your leisure.

This month’s cover story is on Hong Kong’s handover, 10 years on. Check out this piece on mainland companies listing in Hong Kong, and this long Q&A with Pearl River Delta expert Michael Enright on Hong Kong and the region’s future. We’ve also got bits on India in our ongoing series.

Some good ones this month from our stable of columnists (yes, we keep them right here on Huaihai Road, and we give them fresh hay daily). There’s Tom Doctoroff, marketing man-about-town, (see him hosting a web TV show here!) confirming our deepest suspicions — luxury brands in China are propped up by marketing dollars to stake-out market share, not to serve any real customer base. The Beijing Calling column discusses Blackstone, Bates Gill (you read that right), looks at US and Chinese pols and making dialog work, while Graeme Johnston dissects the anti-monopoly law.

There’s plenty more besides, including our MBA supplement, until the next issue.

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