Latest Posts
China’s modest economic ambitions – Victor Shih
China limited its GDP growth for 2023 to a modest 5 percent at the opening of the National People’s Congress this weekend. Political analyst Victor Shih explains the background of this lower-than-expected ambition in the Guardian.Read More →
Business confidence among luxury buyers sky high – Rupert Hoogewerf
Hurun chairman Rupert Hoogewerf introduces the Hurun Chinese Luxury Consumer Survey & Hurun Best of the Best Awards 2023 with some amazing results: business confidence among luxury buyers in China is sky high and was only higher in 2022.Read More →
US expats increasingly unwilling to move to China
US investments into China are dropping, shows the latest AmCham survey into the country’s business climate for US companies, reports the South China Morning Post March 2023. And while the number of US companies planning to move out of China is limited, one of the problems hindering investments is a growing reluctance among qualified experts to move to China, the paper reports. New investments have stalled and plans exist to decrease current investments.Read More →
How in China the Internet of Things gets connected – Winston Ma
In China, things are even more connected than people, writes Winston Ma, Adjunct Professor, NYU School of Law, in Europeansting.com, in a thorough overview of the possibilities and challenges of the Internet of Things. Are we ready for the future?Read More →
EU leaders bound to visit China by mid-2023
While China is seriously trying to get to terms with the end of the zero-Covid policies since the end of December 2022, international business has not been following suit, according to the Financial Times. International business delegations and other foreign visitors have not yet returned to Shanghai, writes the paper.Read More →
Luxury brands should focus on their Very Important Clients – Ashley Dudarenok
Marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok picks five 2023 trends for luxury brands in China, from its ChoZan’s 2023 Mega Report. The first one: focus on your VIC’s, Very Important Clients. this and four more trends from the Jing Daily. Among them: expand the duty-free ecosystem, and adopt global pricing strategies.Read More →
The future for foreign FMCG in China – Ashley Dudarenok
Domestic competition for foreign fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) in China is growing, but branding expert Ashley Dudarenok expects there will still be a market for those foreign brands, she writes in Dao Insights. “To sum it up, the FMCG market in China in 2023 is very fluid,” she writes.Read More →
China claims Covid-19 has been beaten – AP
China claims that since the end of the disputed zero-Covid policies at the end of November 2022 till February 2023 200 million of its citizens have been diagnosed with Covid-19, writes AP. Of those, 800,000 critically ill patients have recovered, says the news agency in an article, based on notes from a meeting of the ruling Communist Party’s all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee presided over by President and party leader Xi Jinping. The president claims Covid-19 has been effectively beaten.Read More →
China housing market is going to be weak – Shaun Rein
Business analyst Shaun Rein experts the housing market in China is going to get weak as consumers are not buying big-ticket items for the near future, he tells CNBC.Read More →
Faith and value systems in China – Ian Johnson
China veteran Ian Johnson describes how faith and value systems in China have been developing over the past century and how the government and the communist party acted on religion at the USCCA.Read More →
How luxury has become huge in China – Ashley Dudarenok
Marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok explains how luxury purchases became rooted in China’s complicated market and developed over the past decades. And what trends she expects for 2023. Read More →
How is China’s supply chain doing after Zero-Covid ended? – Sara Hsu
Tennessee professor Sara Hsu looks at the supply chains in China after the zero-Covid policies ended, for Drilling deep.Read More →