Green and cool stand to gain
Air-conditioners are getting cleaner and greener, and sales are forecast to rise this year. >>more...
Manufacturing growth slows
China's manufacturing in February continued to grow, but the pace slowed, Bloomberg reported. The Federation of Logistics and Purchasing's Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) fell to a >>more...
Overcapacity in green manufacturing
Wind and solar power projects across China are beginning to encounter problems including unnecessary duplication of projects due to a huge rush to invest in the sector. >>more...
China First Heavy Industries fails to raise highest valuation
China First Heavy Industries failed to raise the maximum amount of capital sought in its mainland IPO, Bloomberg reported. The offering by the manufacturer of heavy equipment for the mining, energy, >>more...
China cotton fiber plant in Quang Ninh
Quang Ninh provincial People’s Committee is working with Chinese Texhong Group on building a cotton fiber plant in Hai Yen industrial zone, Mong Cai City following the first one in southern Vietnam. >>more...
Will China overtake US in due course?
This dramatic question was asked in Commodity Today. It says that at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the US-economy was eight times larger than China’s – ten years later the figure was down to four-times. China’s $4.9-trillion economy has already passed Germany’s to become the world’s third largest, and is on course to overtake #2, Japan, this year. >>more...
Taiwan's LCD priorities
Flat panels are now the only way to go. Taiwan's industrial policy-making department believes it should let its makers of flat panels set up plants in China before semiconductor manufacturers. >>more...
China steel output growth to lag world in 2010
Global steel output is expected to grow 11.2% in 2010, but for the first time in a decade the output from China will not outpace that of the rest of the world, the Financial Times reported. While >>more...
Kobelco $125 million Chinese factory
Chengdu Kobelco's new factory in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China has been officially opened. >>more...
Yichun to become lithium-ion capital
Yichun for the past year has been working on a new battery-energy industry based on Ta-Nb – Tantalum-Niobium – resources. >>more...
Where are all the workers?
Is there really a labor shortage going on in the south of China? >>more...
Urban crawl
China's car economy plan means the dubious delights of city center driving are here to stay >>more...
Chinese shoe makers may have a loophole
MALCOLM MOORE: The new free trade zone between China and ASEAN could give Chinese shoemakers a way around the EU blockade >>more...
Manufacturing discontent
BOOK REVIEW: The darker side of China's rise as the factory to the world >>more...
To have and have not
Technology is transforming the lives of China's poor, but can it empower them? >>more...
How's business? - Market entry consulting
Business development executive at a market-entry consulting firm in Shanghai:
"There are more inquiries right now, but there's also a longer decisions process. And people are asking for discounted >>more...
How's business? - Serviced apartments, Executive search, Textiles
A partner in a company that provides short- and long-term serviced apartments in Beijing:
“Business has been growing pretty steadily. A lot of people are looking for alternatives to places like >>more...
How's business? - Manufacturing, PR and forwarding
From a manager of a Western factory in Guangdong province:
“We’re not looking at the wonderful order sizes that you might have seen a year ago or more, but I think we are seeing stability, I >>more...
Team building exercise
In the course of reporting our upcoming cover story on the export sector (readers across the globe wait with bated breath) China Economic Review had the opportunity to speak to a range of people >>more...
A change junkie
While reporting a story I came across a blog from an insider in China's manufacturing sector. David Levy, a self-professed "change junkie," was sent to China by his American employer in 2000 to >>more...
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