Archive for the ‘Business in China’ Category

China’s Retail Sales Predicted to Rise 12% in 2007

The Ministry of Commerce is predicting that China’s retail sales will reach 8.5 trillion yuan ($1.1 trillion) next year.
Total sales of goods are expected to be 20 trillion or $2.5 trillion R…

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Posted by Bill Belew on November 9th, 2006 in Business in China, China, China Business, chinese | No Comments

China’s WTO Push Good News All-around

Chinese and US officials are praising China’s efforts to meet World Trade Organization (WTO) commitments saying it is a win-win for everyone – China and the world.
The last major obstacle …

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Posted by Bill Belew on November 9th, 2006 in Business in China, China, China Business, chinese | No Comments

Chinese Children Prefer Japanese Cartoons

At a recent forum on cartoons held in Qingdao, Shandong province it was announced that there are about 500 million cartoon readers in China.
Abt 60% of them are aged 14-17. 30% are over 18 years old. …

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Posted by Bill Belew on November 8th, 2006 in Business in China, China, Japan, Japan business | No Comments

Nuclear Power Facility Planned for Yangtze River

China thinks nuclear power is the clean and reasonable alternative to the massive amounts of coal it burns as well as depending on oil from overseas.
If the State Development and Reform Commission giv…

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Posted by Bill Belew on November 7th, 2006 in Business in China, China | No Comments

China’s Top Ten Cartoons Announced

From a survey taken by 300,000 netizens and among 178 China-produced nominations, China’s top-10 cartoons were announced.
The winners are:
"Century Sonny,"
"Tortoise Hanba’…

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Posted by Bill Belew on November 7th, 2006 in Business in China, China, Doing Business in China | No Comments

Baseball In China?

Major League Baseball is eating its heart out. 
The NBA already has 1.3 million Chinese fans cheering for Yao Ming. Now the MLB is hoping to find as many fans for Can-Hit Tu.
MLB officials said …

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Posted by Bill Belew on November 6th, 2006 in All about China, Business in China, China, chinese | No Comments

Leg Stretching Surgery Banned In China

This is weird.
My wife, (5"0" tall and made in China) and an exchange student (4"11" and made in Japan) who is staying with us were talking about this yesterday.
Girls in China hea…

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Posted by Bill Belew on November 5th, 2006 in Business in China, China, Doing Business in China, chinese | No Comments

China’s Next Yao Ming

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The NBA’s next Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian, has received permission from his club to enter the 2007 NBA draft.
Yi led his tea…

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Posted by Bill Belew on November 4th, 2006 in All about China, Business in China, China | No Comments

China Announces Third Nuclear Power Plant This Year

China Nuclear Engineering and Construction Corp. along with three other Chinese investors have announced the third plan this year to build a nuclear power plant.
Hunan province announced plans for one…

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Posted by Bill Belew on November 3rd, 2006 in All about China, Business in China, China, Doing Business in China | No Comments

China Registers 900,000th Trade Mark

China appears to be getting more and more serious at protecting its own intellectual property.
A Chinese company, using the Madrid system (the primary international system for facilitating the registr…

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Posted by Bill Belew on November 2nd, 2006 in All about China, Business in China, China, Doing Business in China, chinese | No Comments