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Business Economics & Trade

A logistical challenge

Warehousing opportunities are opening up to foreign firms but a modern nationwide network remains a distant goal.

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Business Economics & Trade

Where there’s muck

Cleaning up China’s water supply will be an expensive business, writes Butler Waugh of China Venture Advisors.

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Foreign funds welcome

Recent liberalisation has boosted foreign investment and local authority funding in China’s airports sector. However it is likely that further change is required in order to sustain the necessary inward investment.

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Business Economics & Trade

A few home truths

Residential property ownership in Shanghai is not taking off as some of the newspaper headlines might suggest.

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Business Economics & Trade

Ministers put business ties on a firmer footing

Russian-Chinese business relationsb look set to develop rapidly folowing a visit to China in late June by Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin. This was preceded by the visit of Deputy-Premier Boris Nemtsov, co-chairman of the bilateral inter-governmental commission on trade-economic and scientific-technical co-operation, who was accompanied by other ministers and high-level officials.