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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 →
Health awareness profoundly influences sport branding – Ashley Dudarenok
Health awareness has a profound influence on the requirements of consumers, and brands should pay notice, says marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok tells the Jing Daily.“Women’s athleisure needs to be both fashionable and professional,” she says.Read More →
Chill in China’s tech sector continues even now the crackdown has ended – Shaun Rein
China’s crackdown on its tech sector in the past few years might have loosened, but the fallout is still hurting its development after the government has loosed its grip, says business analyst Shaun Rein to AP. “The crackdown was deep and cut far to the bone, probably more than the government expected it to,” said Shaun Rein,Read More →
Consumer sentiment is slowly improving – Ashley Dudarenok
Domestic tourism in China saw a jump, and consumer sentiment is improving more slowly after the zero-Covid policies ended, says consumer expert Ashley Dudarenok at CNBC. Brands are relucted in spending their marketing budgets. Dudarenok said that heading into 2023 and the Lunar New Year, some smaller brands had turned more conservative on China and cut their marketing budgets for the country in half.Read More →
Why China’s low fertility rate is a serious problem – Zhang Lijia
China saw for the first time its population drop. Journalist and author Zhang Lijia explains in the South China Morning Post why the government should take this development seriously and what actions it could take. “Leaders will have to learn to treat citizens with respect,” she adds.Read More →