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

Conversations on the impact the global economy’s woes on China’s economy, and the actions take by Beijing to address those issues, are quite often over simplified to the point that members of the media, policy makers, consultants, and yes… even bloggers… tend to lump “China” into a single geographic market. It is something while I [...]

1. Lafarge’s second-phase waste heat generation project put into production Dujiangyan Larfarge Cement Co., Ltd’s second-phase work, the waste heat generation project (3700t/d+3500t/d clinker production line and pure low-temperature waste heat power generation station engineering), is Chengdu’s key fund-support energy-saving drainage-reducing project. Of total investment of 7.101 million yuan, the project, after nearly half-year restoration [...]

In the recent released China Economic Issues report, a study by called How Much Do Exports Matter for China’s Growth? (download here) ooks at the impact the export market has on the wider economy. Unlike many reports that I have seen, and commented on, what I like about this study is that it looked at [...]

following up on my post last week, Shanghai’s Extreme Expo Makeover, I was speaking with a friend about the current layout of Shanghai’s real estate market. It was one of those conversations that included a “look at all the cranes”, and gradually progressed into listing off the various developments that have gone idle. Somewhere in [...]

In predicting the return of the manufacturing economy, and thus the wider economy, there is few indicators more important to me than logistics activity. Simply put, we need logistics to move everything from raw materials, sub assembled parts, to finished goods. It is a cycle that allows for the complete extract ,package, sell, and scrap [...]

In my post earlier this week, March PMI Data for China Out, I focused on the fact that CLSA and CFLP came to some very different conclusions about March’s PMI data. For my part, I saw where both groups had the potential to see different data, and in the article What is behind different PMI [...]