Showing posts with label Chinese Economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chinese Economy. Show all posts

China Buying up the world - View all

China buys up the world And the world should stay open for business N THEORY, the ownership of a business in a capitalist economy is irrelevant. In practice, it is often controversial. From Japanese firms’ wave of purchases in America in the 1980s and Vodafone’s takeover of Germany’s Mannesmann in 2000 to the more recent antics of private-equity firms, acquisitions have often prompted

China's Top 50 Logistics Enterprises, 2010-2011 - Research Report

The logistics industry involves manufacturers and logistics enterprises, including a series of links such as storage, transportation, package, distribution and information processing. By the end of 2010, there have been about 100,000 related enterprises of the logistics industry with low industrial concentration.After the entry into WTO, China comprehensively carried out the policy of opening-up.

Walmart invests in China’s 360buy.com

Walmart, the world’s largest retailer by sales, has invested in China’s largest e-commerce consumer electronics seller, 360buy.com, in a move that underlines the growing interest of global retailers in China’s rapidly growing online market.The retailer was one of six investors in a round of funding that raised $500m for 360buy, whose rivals include Taobao, the dominant online marketplace owned by

China official sees room for U.S. trade target: FT

HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- China and the U.S. have the basis for a pact setting specific targets to cut their trade imbalance at next month's Group of 20 nations summit, according to a senior adviser to the Chinese central bank quoted in a Financial Times report Wednesday. "China should not be afraid of numerical targets for reducing its trade surplus," said Li Daokui, a member of the

Chinese factories struggle as wages rise ‎

SHENZHEN, China Caixin Online -- Standing in a light rain, dozens of young men and women quietly waited at the closed gates of a Foxconn Technology Group recruiting office. One woman said she'd traveled from another electronics company factory nearby to check out Foxconn's offer to increase salaries by up to 2,000 yuan ($295) a month. She called that kind of pay "unbelievable" for