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Aiming for promotion

Liang Xiaorong of the Beijing branch of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) outlines the services his company has on offer.

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B-shares – a practical guide

As one of the foreign brokers authorised to deal in China’s B-shares, Wardley James Capel Limited, a member of the HSBC Group, offers its overview of how trading in B-shares operates.

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An industrial workhorse

Though the government has scaled down capital construction investments in Jiangsu to stem the rising prices and energy shortages, the province still has the country’s largest industrial output, with 12 per cent of the national total. We take a closer look at Jiangsu, famous for its waterways, its silk and its machinery production.

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A lucrative habit

China is a nation of smokers, with an estimated 400 million Chinese lighting up 1,625 cigarettes a year. But while foreign brands still have a certain appeal for young urban Chinese, only three joint venture cigarette companies have been permitted to build factories in China, and 90 per cent of the smokers still buy domestically-produced cigarettes. We review China’s most successful industry.

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Reading the market

In the first of a series of profiles of Chinese organisations, International Trade Research Institute (ITRI) outlines what it has to offer the international trader.