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A few years back, my team was working on a program to understand the needs of Shanghai’s elderly. It was a program initiated through a conversation on what it would take to implement the American “Meals on Wheels” program, and through our study of one district one thing became apparent. That there was a huge [...]

This is a shot of the hot plate that we were served on our flight this morning. China really needs to implement a Buy on Board program.

Over the past week I had the opportunity to survey what is known collectively as Shanghai’s ‘North Bund’ project site and adjacent project sites.  I had not visited that area of Shanghai in quite a while so I read up a bit before the trek. Anyone involved in Shanghai real estate these days, especially on [...]

Early on in the economic crisis, my primary concern was not that trade would fall off, which it did, but that foreign investment would fall off, which is has continued to do. Why I was initially fixate on this data point, rather than on the more popular trade figures, was simply the implied duration of [...]

Over the past few months, a new trade related story has begun to pick up steam, the settlement of crossborder trade in various currencies other than the US Dollar.  At first glance it is a story that does not catch the eye, because it is often laden with economic analysis that is less than exciting, [...]

Whether it is the entrepreneurs of Wenzhou who have developed the informal lending circles, those returning from Silicon Valley, your local delivery man who represents 6 delivery companies or the freshly minted grads who are receiving government aid, China breadth of entrepreneurial ventures is wide. Some of China’s biggest celebrities (Jack Ma) are in fact [...]

1. Investment of 100 million US dollars, Alibaba to build western base in Chengdu On June 29th, the signing ceremony of the western base project of Alibaba Group was held in Chengdu High-tech Zone. It is learnt that Alibaba Group is to invest 100 million US dollars in Chengdu to build the “Alibaba Western Base”, [...]

As an American living in China for the better part of 8 years, I have experienced the spectrum of customer service experiences, but my experience earlier this week (July 1) at the Westgate ACS office highlighted that within your own office. On (May 14, 2009) my wife I went to the Westgate office to arrange [...]