Business intelligence: Investment in China
Investment is a broad and general concept covering the process when money is converted into capital. Based on the criteria of fund-raising channels, it is classified into direct investment and indirect investment. The first refers to investing directly into a program to change it into capital, or buying the investment of current enterprises. The latter […]
Market analysis: Rising labor costs in China
Although constantly increasing labor costs are decreasing margins for many companies operating in China, rising labor costs alone is not enough to topple the country’s immense manufacturing industry. China currently accounts for about 1/5 of total global manufacturing, more than any other country in the world. Unfortunately for many foreign companies that have outsourced their […]
Market study: China’s private healthcare sector
Due to rises in the average Chinese resident’s life expectancy and income, the Chinese government has made a concerted effort to improve its citizens’ access to healthcare. This has created a problem in the Chinese healthcare system as quality of healthcare has suffered despite improvements in healthcare access. Due to this unmet demand in the […]
China Strategy: Wanda in China
Dalian Wanda Group was founded in 1988 and operates in five major industries including commercial properties, luxury hotels, tourism investments, cultural industries, and department store chains. The company has assets of 31 billion dollars and an annual income of 17 billion dollars. The company has already opened 49 Wanda Plazas, 28 five-star hotels, 726 cinema […]
China market research: Smartphones
China is the world’s largest market for smartphone China’s situation Now that 20% of its population owns a smartphone, China has surpassed the United States as the largest smartphone market. As of February, the country has become the world’s largest consumer of smartphones, according to a study by Flurry, a market research company . […]
China research: Mongolia and China relations
The People’s Republic of China and Mongolia share a boundary line of 4,676 kilometers long. The two countries set up diplomatic relations on October 16, 1949. Over the 50 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, Sino-Mongolian relations, though having undergone certain ups and downs, have remained friendly. Especially in the last 10 years or […]
Korean movies in China
Chinese press and film journals have reported extensively on the Korean film industry; the “Korean wave” (hanliu in Chinese or hallyu in Korean) reached China years ago. Of course, Korean, Japanese, Thai films are widely available in China through pirated DVDs. China’s film market is a very different one than Korea and Japan, in part […]
Internet Consulting in China
The General Overview of Internet Consulting in China With the explosion of internet, the so-called Internet Consulting is on the way expanding. Internet consulting is a broad term that is applied to the task of evaluating and developing strategies for businesses that wish to function on the Internet. The consulting may take the form of […]
Luxury Stores in 2nd and 3rd-tier cities in China
“The global luxury industry focuses on China and in China it will depends on the second and third tier cities.” This saying has long been in the industry from forecast into reality. According to a McKinsey survey, by 2015, 75 percent of China’s rich people live in 2nd and 3rd-tier cities and non-coastal cities. Those […]
Chinese’s dairy products consumption
Consumption of milk and dairy products is rooted in dietary habits in Western countries. They are countries which have today the largest consumers led by Europe. Finns hold the world record for milk consumption with more than 150 litters per year and French are leader in the consumption of butter and cheese. In Asia, the […]
Market study: Vichy in China
Vichy is a commune in the Allier department in Auvergne in central France. It belongs to the historic province of Bourbonnais. It is known as a spa and resort town and was the de facto capital of Vichy France during the World War II Nazi German occupation from 1940 to 1944. The town’s inhabitants are […]
B2C 3C Product Purchasers in China
In year 2010, there were 32.19 million B2C 3C purchasers in China, which is 32.4% of the total B2C purchasers. 3C product is the category that has achieved fast development over the recent years online. The first reason is that with the help of the internet, they have great comparative advantage in product price, thus […]