When business analyst Shaun Rein arrived in China in the 1990s, all was cheap. For the rthk he recalls, based on his book The End of Cheap China: Economic and Cultural Trends that Will Disrupt the World in half an hour how China no longer is the cheap country where he started off.
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The China Speakers Bureau has this week opened its newly designed website for business. The transfer is still in business and since websites are never ready, you will see new improvements in the weeks to come.
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Rupert Hoogewerf via Flickr On average half of China’s millionaires spend at least one million Renminbi (150,000 US dollar or 100,000 euro), says the latest Hurun report according to Chinese media, composed by Rupert Hoogewerf. That is 11 percent more compared to last year. In CRIenglish: Real estate is still theRead More →

Kaiser Kuo in 2008 via Wikipedia Huge changes in this month’s list of most-sought speakers, compared to October. Kaiser Kuo gained the top position and certainly made the biggest move this month. As he took his position as director international communication at China’s largest search engine Baidu, we feared heRead More →

Paul French by Fantake via Flickr Obesity has become one of China’s most important problems, tells Paul French, author of an upcoming book  on the issue to Sky News. “In the last 30 years they’ve gone from famine to feast in just two generations,” explained British economist Paul French, whoRead More →

Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr China counts a growing number of billionaires and Shaun Rein summarizes three key lessons an – anonymous – billionaire friend learned him. He writes it up in Forbes.Sharing is the main lesson Shaun Rein learned from the man he baptized Mr. Chen: Mr. Chen believes inRead More →