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The SAS Royal Hotel is Beijing’s newest hotel, and SAS’s first venture in Asia. We talk to manager, Hans Henk about the challenges he has faced and his attempts at attracting the business traveller.

Shanghai is China’s largest industrial and commercial city and home to one of China’s two stock exchanges. We take a closer look at the municipality.

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.

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 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.