China Economic ReviewModernisation 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.
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.
Taiwan is establishing a huge manufacturing base in mainland China to take advantage of the mainland’s weak currency plus low land and labour costs. Yet, despite what you might hear to the contrary, direct official shipping and air transport links between Taiwan and China could be a long time coming as far away as the turn of the century, according to some well informed observers close to the action…
Western estimates suggest that 11 per cent of global textile output carries a "Made in China" label. We profile one of China’s most important foreign exchange earners the textile industry, in this special report.
In the first of our monthly series of profiles of China’s hotels, we talked to Marie Barrymore at the Jing Guang New World Hotel in Beijing ? the tallest building in China ? about what the hotel has to offer.