Full Contents - June 2008
COVER STORY [Premium content]
Energy
(FREE) Balance of power
- China’s power system is torn between supply, demand and politics
(FREE) Wind energy: Out of thin air
- Wind energy is booming in China but it is struggling to fulfill its potential
Uphill task: Foreign business targets the energy sector
- Foreign investment in China's power system is increasingly difficult, and unnecessary
Unwelcome waste: Getting tough on energy
- China is getting serious about efficiency
Special concessions: The price of wind
- Behind wind power pricing in China
CER Events
Next-generation foreign direct investment
- Different perspectives on the revised FDI catalogue
Corporate Treasury
China business advice: Corporate treasury
- A corporate treasurer must be able to handle a variety of financial and business issues
SPECIAL REPORT [Premium content]
Southeast Asia
(FREE) Staffing issues
- Are China’s rising labor costs driving manufacturers to cheaper locations in the region?
Exit point: Low-end manufacturers up sticks
- Tightening regulations are forcing some businesses out of China
PERSPECTIVE [Premium content]
Andy Rothman
China's economy: The third wave breaks
- The impact of China’s latest bout of economic restructuring will be felt the world over
Duncan Freeman
New dialogue, new divisions: Economics, politics, trade and the EU-China relationship
- Top-level talks between China and the EU won’t cure economic ills or address political ones
Philip Bowring
Trade: Senseless self-sufficiency
- International trade, not subsidizing farmers, is the key to securing a food supply
Steven M. Dickinson
Play by the rules
- Tougher visa restrictions are part of a wider clampdown on foreign firms that abuse the system
REPORTS [Premium content]
China's economy feeling the heat
- Booming speculative inflows of hot money may have dire repercussions for China’s economy
Access point: How hot money enters China
- Tricks of the hot money trade
Serving two masters
- Can Olympic sponsors please Chinese customers without alienating everyone else?
(FREE) Kiwi trade coup
- The New Zealand FTA is a test case for future deals between China and developed countries
Testing the bottom line
- The third-party testing business is benefiting from a new focus on product safety
Change of focus
- China’s leading out-of-home advertiser is diversifying into new media
COMMENTARY
Cool heads in a crisis
- The Sichuan earthquake represents a stiff test for China’s leaders
Best of the Editors' Journal
- Three minutes' silence in Shanghai; Fuyang and the coming apocalypse
Micromanaging the stock market
- China's financial regulators should try a lighter hand
REVIEW
Mending fences
- President Hu Jintao visits Japan
Alibaba grows up
- Alibaba grows as the Microsoft-Yahoo deal falters
Banking boon
- A good quarter for China's banks
An engineered solution
- Mainland markets rise with the CSRC's help
China Buzz
China Buzz
- US Senator Richard Durbin; Ma Ying-jeou; Hu Jintao; Jill Savitt, Dream for Darfur; Han Jin, Education Ministry
Fat Dragon
The commercial flame: Foreign businesses and the Olympic torch
- The most remarkable aspect of the Olympics has been mainlanders' love of corporate sponsors
Politics & Society
Tragedy in Sichuan
- The grim aftermath of China's worst earthquake in over 30 years
Punditry
China's economy and fallout from the earthquake
- Qian Wang, JPMorgan; Fitch Ratings; Matt Robinson and Alaistair Chan, Moody's
QUESTION & ANSWER [Premium content]
Tom Bernardin
Marketing in China: The human touch
- Chairman and CEO of Leo Burnett Worldwide, Tom Bernardin, thinks understanding consumer behavior in China is key to success here
SPOTLIGHT
United Kingdom
Building British
- Despite heavy restrictions, UK architecture firms are putting their mark on China’s urban landscape
Car country
- Avis’s Lucy Barawitzka, on China’s growing car rental industry
CULTURE
Book Review
A Free Life: A Novel
Chasing the dream
- Chinese immigrants and the American Dream
Hong Kong On Air
Handover blues
- An enjoyable trip back to 1997
Modern China: A Very Short Introduction
A bite-sized meal
- A whirlwind tour through China's history
Travels to the West
Edible flowers
- Graham Earnshaw walks from Shanghai to Tibet when he has the time, always starting from the last place he stopped. This month we find him east of the river town Wushan in Chongqing municipality
MARKETS
Red Dragon Fund
Events, expected and unexpected
- What the cut in stamp duty and the tragic earthquake in Sichuan mean for the stock market
FOCUS
Guest Word
Lee Perkins
Finding the silver lining
- Changes in manufacturing mean new opportunities for logistics businesses
Report
Taking a toll
- Logistics firms are upbeat at the prospect of a ‘super-ministry’ cutting away the industry’s red tape
Logistics jargon-buster
- Logistics-speak DOA? Poka-Yoke it like a professional!
Shanghai port by numbers
- Figures from the world's soon-to-be-largest container port
Outside the box
- Breakbulk shippers specialize in the awkward, odd-shaped and just plain large
Q&A
Charlie Jing
The long haul
- CEVA’s Charlie Jing says his pool of clients is diversifying as China moves up the value chain
News briefs
Logistics news
- Revenues up; Chengdu's hopes; Shipping hurt; Cosco expands; Li backs Shenzhen port; Hangzhou Bay Bridge
CO-PUBLISHED ARTICLE
Beijing United Family Hospital
Cosmetic cures
- Businessmen are looking to plastic surgery to boost their careers
Guangzhou R&F
Going commercial
- Portfolio diversification is the name of the game for Chinese property developers
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