China Economic ReviewGovernment statistics reported a growing number of vacancies in China's job market, up 46% year-on-year in the third quarter of 2004. According to the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, a survey of 115 cities revealed 3.801 million advertised openings for 4.013 million job seekers. The number of people looking for work increased 37% year-on-year […]
Edinburgh's Napier University became the latest foreign higher education institution to announce a move into the Chinese market, unveiling plans to build a campus on the grounds of Zhengzhou University of Light Industry in central China's Henan Province. It is the first Scottish university to open a China branch – a move trumpeted by Scotland's […]
The taxi trade anywhere is a direct link to the real local economy.
Ford has less than 3% of China’s car market. Ron Tyack says that will change – as will the world’s traditional automaking centers, if they hope to survive.
Guangdong's labor shortage and higher costs are prompting manufacturers to move some production inland and to Vietnam, the South China Morning Post reported. It said Zhuhai-based Kingmaker Footwear Holdings is rethinking plans to expand capacity at its plant in nearby Zhongshan and instead looking at Vietnam to handle as much as 40% of output. The […]