Shenzhen via Wikipedia In Shenzhen today ChiNext, the Nasdaq-style stock exchange, was launched to provide smaller and middle size companies with capital. An excellent opportunity for entrepreneurs, Hurun publisher Rupert Hoogewerf tells Reuters.  ‘The biggest challenge for (China’s) entrepreneurs … was how to raise their first capital,’ said Rupert Hoogewerf,Read More →

Forget China’s older generation via Wikipedia Shaun Rein is giving foreign retailers a crash course on who to target among the Chinese consumers and what the dangers are, in Forbes. They should forget about the Chinese equivalent of the baby boomers, the older generation will not start spending even whenRead More →

Arthur Kroeber by Fantake via Flickr China’s bean counters have been reporting enthusiastic economic growth of even 8.9 percent in the third quarter, but our own analyst Arthur Kroeber of Dragonomics is not yet convinced,he tellls DNA. “The quality of the growth stinks.” The government looks set to meet and perhapsRead More →

In charge by Praziquantel via Flickr With an economic growth of 7.9 percent in the second quarter of 2009, China is a must for global retail companies, despite its lower base. And in China, women under 35 rule the wallet, says Shaun Rein in his latest article for Forbes.  ThatRead More →

Beijing, not yet ready via Wikipedia Is China going to lead the world? That questions is asked frequently, but Victor Shih is pretty sure in his piece in the Wall Street Journal that China is far from ready. But leadership does not depend on cash reserves alone. To lay credibleRead More →

Image via Wikipedia Rupert Hoogewerf is interviewed by Shanghai Urbananonymy on his ten-year operation of documenting wealth in China with his Hurun or China Rich List. What are the differences between the British and the Chinese well-to-do? The entrepreneurs in China are all first generation. In Britain the Duke ofRead More →

Rupert Murdoch via Wikipedia Rupert Murdoch was the lastest Western corporate tycoon in Beijing, asking the Chinese authorities to crack down on fake products and the infringement of intellectual copyrights. Shaun Rein sets him straight and explains in Forbes why fake DVD’s and Gucci bags are not dissapearing from China’sRead More →

Kaiser Kuo by Fantake via Flickr Just like in September, our top-10 ranking of most-sought speakers sees this month a relative huge shift, including a new number one: Kaiser Kuo. Shaun Rein has been holding this place since we started the ranking last year after we started the China SpeakersRead More →

Rupert Hoogewerf by Getty Images via Daylife China’s rich have not only survived successfully the financial crisis, they are getting richer very fast, says Rupert Hoogewerf, the author of the annual Hurun report, documenting for a decade the well-to-do, according to Reuters. The country now counts 130 billionaires, up from 101 lastRead More →

Image by doncorleon via Flickr Corruption in China was long seen in the foreign business community as an unavoidable nuisance. But now the Chinese government has been coming after huge companies like Rio Tinto, Coca-Cola and McKinsey, avoiding corruption has become – even more than in the past – aRead More →

Image via Wikipedia Non-performing loans have been dealt with effectively over the past decade, but as those old loans and the current financial rescue packages are added up, China’s financial system is heading for an unprecedented stress-test, writes Arthur Kroeber in the Financial Times. Kroeber: Chinese NPLs can be dividedRead More →

William Bao Bean by Fantake via Flickr A good introduction by William Bao Bean, partner at Softbank India&China Holdings, talking about how companies can survive in the current financial crisis. The video dates from May 22, 2009, so some parts are a bit outdated. But a few of the waysRead More →