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Topic: Chinese Economy

  
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China's Next Great Thing

Though China's factories fill our shelves, it has yet to produce truly powerful global companies or brands. That's about to change.READ»

Numbers to Lose Sleep By

Want more evidence that we should be worrying about American competitiveness? Check out the monthly trade data for August, released this morning by the Commerce Department--and sending some analysts scurrying to revise (downward) ...READ»

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China Auto Sales Rise 72% Hit 1.2 Million Units

Global automakers are looking to China's fast-growing market to drive sales amid slack demand elsewhere. Sales have been spurred by tax cuts and subsidies meant to help nurture China's auto industry and encourage purchases of more fuel-efficient vehicles. Beijing's 4 trillion yuan ($586 billion) stimulus has helped to prop up spending on cars and other big-ticket items, and lifted economic growth (GDP) in the latest quarter to 8.9% from a year earlier. China, Brazil, Australia and India are both seeing significant economic growth. READ»

China Hands

Is China the next economic superpower? Ming Zeng of Cheung Kong business school and Elizabeth Economy from the Council on Foreign Relations hash it out.READ»

Exhibition Stand supplier in China YoHo Expo

As China's economy grows,more foreign companies market China by attending trade show promotions,it creats a new business feild called trade show booth contractor,YoHo Expo has beening offering booth design and construction service for ...READ»

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China’s textile industry in need of product innovation

Textile is one of China’s largest industries; it contributes US$ 420 billion to the national GDP. Exports of China’s textile industry were valued at US$178 billion in 2007 and contributed US$150 billion to China’s trade ...READ»

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Is China the Next U.S. Renewable Energy Superhero?

Oh, the irony. All-American oilman T. Boone Pickens scraps his plans for the world's biggest wind farm--a $10 billion project in Texas--and who comes in to pick up the pieces? China. The communist country is honing in on the Texas ...READ»

China in Africa

Mining Copper in Zambia

I ask Xiao Ye, an Africa statistical researcher for the World Bank, whether a clear chart or table exists laying out the full extent of China's economic involvement in Africa. "I don't know anyone who has done such a ...READ»

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Fast Talk: China Rising

We talked to five of the best and brightest recent Chinese MBA grads -- whose careers will be followed in a 20-year study by Katzenbach Partners -- about China's future and their own hopes and dreams.READ»

New Challenges for Japan

In a recent conversation, I had the opportunity to hear Peter Drucker discussing potential challenges faced by Japan: China, South Korea and other parts of the region are becoming increasingly competitive. For example, the ...READ»

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Burberry and the Next Big Brands to Come From the East

The plaid giant's significant expansion in Singapore signals the winning strategy for becoming a global brand: Woo Asian customers first.READ»

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Should Unemployed Americans Look for Work Abroad?

Fast Company takes a look at employment opportunities for expats overseas in developed and developing nations.READ»