Category: Economics & Trade

Kumagai Gumi of Japan has recently been involved in two amusement park projects in China. We talked to the general manager of the Beijing Amusement Park, Mr. Bob Lamb, about this unusual area for foreign investment.

British Airways launched its first non-stop flight from London to Beijing last month. China Economic Review asked BA’s China manager, Charles Phelps-Penry, who is expected to fly the route and about the company’s prospects within a country whose aviation industry is still not up to scratch.

China’s airline industry is taking off. At a time when many of the world’s airlines are struggling to stay in business, China’s have notched up an average 22 per cent growth over the last 12 years. But records of poor safety and service still haunt China’s airlines. We look at the structure of the China Aviation Administration of China and its attempts to modernise and upgrade its operations.

As the body responsible for implementing much of China’s foreign business policy, The Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade is inevitably in a state of flux and development. We take a closer look at the factors currently shaping the changing ministry, predict reforms on the horizon, and assess how useful Mofert is for the foreign investor.

China’s further opening to foreign investment has prompted a huge surge in interest from the American business community. But as multi-million dollar ventures are announced every day, the official line on the US’s trading position with China is yet to be announced by the new administration. Paul Schroeder reports on the current state of play in this highly charged relationship. And, in the second half of our report, we talk to three US companies about their work in China.