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Local talent

The Foreign Enterprise Service Corporation (FESCO) has been providing foreign companies with Chinese employees since the advent of the open door policy. China Economic Review asked Liu Yanling, of the Beijing office, to explain the procedures involved in employing local staff, and other services the corporation can offer.

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A base for heavy industry

Liaoning is the heavy industry base of China with the highest concentration of large and medium sized state enterprises in the country. We profile the province.

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Northern potential

China’s trade with Sweden, Norway and Denmark is steadily increasing. But, there are many areas of Scandinavian industry that have not been fully exploited. We look at China’s relationship with the three northern countries.

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Talking technology

Modernisation of China’s telecommunications facilities is cracking ahead now, with the help of systems that are designed in Britain, but made in China, says Mish Desmidt of GPT Ltd. Here he explains how the company is taking its technology to Shanghai.

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An industry in flux

Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts has a sizeable presence in China with six hotels dotted around the country. Brian Harris, manager of Beijing’s China World Hotel, talked to China Economic Review about the idiosyncrasies of doing business in a country where tourism is still in its infancy.