Other Briefings
China Market Problems Mean Investors Looking To ASEAN & India For Growth
ASEAN and India will lead the way for the rest of this year and into next as the West’s global investment hotspots. As China struggles to get growth, markets elsewhere in Asia are steaming ahead.
Ningbo: the City that Beat Hong Kong to be the World’s Fourth Busiest Port
As Ningbo overtook Hong Kong this year to be the fourth busiest port in the world, many foreign investors are turning their attention to this major manufacturing and shipping center. Apart from its traditional strength in producing electronics, the city is moving to solar panels as well.
The Shanghai and Guangdong Free Trade Zones: A Comparison
With Shanghai as the nation’s de facto financial center and Guangdong as one of the world’s major manufacturing and trading centers, both the Shanghai FTZ and Guangdong FTZ have caught the attention of foreign investors seeking to enter a more liberalized Chinese market. This article compares the two.
Almaty vs. Beijing for the Winter Olympics
Chris Devonshire-Ellis talks about the host of the Winter Olympics for 2022. Just Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan, and Beijing, the capital city of China, are left in the running.
China Vamps Up Hangzhou’s E-Commerce Model
Hangzhou is an important center for e-commerce business in China, with more e-commerce transactions taking place in Hangzhou than any other city in China. It has over 470,000 online business entities and is home to e-commerce giant Alibaba. As of January 2015, there were over 1 million import transactions totaling RMB 230 million .
Offshore Status of Hong Kong Companies
A Hong Kong company may do business anywhere in the world – there is no requirement for the Directors and Shareholders to be residents in Hong Kong. Learn more about how to obtain the offshore status for your Hong Kong business in this article.
The New Free Trade Zones Explained, Part IV: Fujian
China recently launched three new FTZs in Guangdong, Tianjin and Fujian. In this last part of the Free Trade Zone series, we concentrate on the Fujian FTZ, which is mainly aimed at strengthening the economic ties with Taiwan and further opening up its financial sector for foreign investors.
China Regulatory Brief: U.S. Reporting Requirement, Consumption Tax on Cigarettes Raised
In this week’s China Regulatory Brief, we review China’s preliminary approval for business license system, new US reporting requirements, adjusted consumption tax on cigarettes and liberalized aviation maintenance in Beijing.
