All Roads Lead to China – Business News, Analysis, and Insights from China:

A few weeks back while writing up the post on imploding February trade figures, I wrote about the fact that imports in my eyes were not an indicator of domestic consumption (i.e. Chinese consumers buying finished goods), but of domestic industry buying raw materials/ semi-finished goods to then be resold elsewhere. It is an important [...]

For those of you who are fashionably conscious, are looking for a cup of tea or coffee in the Jing An temple area, you should try the new LV tea coffee shop Louies Vuitton, perhaps you have seen his bags near the Science and Technology museum (the hub of Shanghai’s IP protection zone), and you [...]

With one of the primary measurements of China’s economic stability/ success being the number of people it employs, and the fact that it must create 20+ million jobs a year just to absorb the new entrants to the work for, it should come as no surprise that Beijing wants to look like it is proactively [...]

A few weeks back, I was forwarded a link to a new site that I thought readers would find interesting and useful. China Industrial Zone A digital catalog of China’s various zones, what I like about the site it how easy it is to use, the fact that their list is fairly comprehensive, and that [...]

Fear grips lines as box numbers shrink

When speaking on the economic ripples that are being felt in china, one will often hear that there is little to fear. that because the layoffs are primarily coming from the blue collar/ migrant sector, that the pain is not being felt in China’s largest cites, that everything will be fine. that consumer confidence will [...]

With the economic crisis continuing to further weaken the cash flow statement of many firms, large and small, I asked good friend Jay Boyle of Expat CFO to put together his next piece. Jay is one of the most experienced corporate finance/ accounting people I know in China, and I believe his insights into the [...]