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TEDA AND ZTE AGRIBUSINESS COMPANY LIMITED SIGN AN INVESTMENT FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT On May 31, TEDA and ZTE Agribusiness Company Limited inked an investment framework agreement to co-establish the ZTE Agribusiness Tianjin Edible Oil and Bio-energy Industrial Base in the Nangang Industrial Park, with a total investment of 194 million dollars. The base will be comprised [...]

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 [...]