Category: Economics & Trade

China Economic Review talks to T.H. Chau, the Hong Kong government’s secretary for trade and industry about the colony’s trading relationship with the mainland.

Some call it interdependence, some call it integration. Whichever it is, the relationship between Hong Kong and the mainland is now more important than ever.

Guangzhou lies at the heart of China’s wealthy Guangdong province, the recipient of large quantities of overseas investment. Now several projects are under way to improve the infrastructure. We profile this provincial capital and then look at Guangzhou Peugeot’s experience of working in the city.

Although information about China’s market is becoming more freely available, a growing number of foreign companies are requiring more detailed research to aid the planning of their long-term sales and marketing strategies. Market research companies are now stepping in to fill the gap.

The Tumen River Development Programme has very great ambitions. It hopes to create a sophisticated economic zone and Asian gateway for global trade, on the borders of China, Russia and North Korea. But the finances needed to propel this coming together of unlikely partners, are such that many feel that the proposal is doomed from the start.