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Real estate tycoon top philantropist – Rupert Hoogewerf
Image by Fantake via Flickr Huang Rulun, one of the wealthiest business men in China and a real estate tycoon, tops also the list of top-philantropists, report several state media. According to a report by the Hurun rich list Huang Rulun has spent 580 million Renminbi (58 million euro) in lessRead More →
The made-in-China label – Shaun Rein
Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr A flood of food scandals has put foreign brands in a better position to gain market share in China, says Shaun Rein in an interview with newswire Bloomberg on the Swiss company Nestle.Bloomberg: “The made-in-China label is really damaging and a lot of ChineseRead More →
Room for optimism on China’s environment – Shaun Rein
Image via Wikipedia China’s emissions might be high on the global environmental agenda, but Shaun Rein from Shanghai remembers the polluted days ahead of the country’s economic boom and seem room for optimismm although the level of pollution is ten times as high as in New York, he writes inRead More →
Tang’s famously cosmopolitan outlook – Kaiser Kuo
Poet Du Fu via Wikipedia Rock star Kaiser Kuo explains in the China Daily why his band called itself “Tang Dynasty”. Main reason was because of that dynasty’s famously cosmopolitan outlook”.From the China Daily: Kuo and his fellows tried to conjure up the feel of a time when China grew steadilyRead More →
Not that many tycoons end up in jail – Rupert Hoogewerf
Rupert Hoogewerf by Getty Images via Daylife For a while ending up at Rupert Hoogewerf’s Hurun rich list seemed a receipt for trouble. Tycoon after tycoon got into trouble with China’s authorities and some ended up in jail. In a new report, here quoted in the China Daily, “The Hurun Report:Read More →
Tips on how to pick a great speaker (Part Nine): a speaker from abroad
Image by Getty Images via Daylife (this is a follow up of a set of stories from our monthly newsletter) Up to not so long ago the speakers business was a pretty localized business. When you would run an Australian speakers agency, your clients and speakers would mostly be Australians.Read More →
China’s rich were too busy to spend – Rupert Hoogewerf
Rupert Hoogewerf by Getty Images via Daylife The new class of Chinese rich has been so busy in making money over the past five to ten years, they had no time to develop a lifestyle, like the wealthy in Europe and the US could do, says Hurun CEO Rupert HoogewerfRead More →
Snow beer has uphill struggle in China
Image via Wikipedia Compared to Tsingtao beer, the largest beer producer in China, is having a tough time in getting hold of China’s massive beer market, says Shaun Rein in an interview with Bloomberg. Although market leader, the larger beer brewers only hold 40 percent of the market, while theRead More →
Beijing has most rich Chinese – Rupert Hoogewerf
Most of China’s wealthy prefer to live in Beijing, says the latest Hurun report on the country’s rich, composed by Rupert Hoogewerf. in a report by the China Daily. The capital city has 143,000 multimillionaires and 8,800 billionaires, compared to 116,000 multimillionaires and 7,000 billionaires in Shanghai.From the China Daily: They ownRead More →
Health-care reform boon for medical device makers
Success in China via Wikipedia Foreign medical device makers have huge opportunities in China as the country embarks next year in a gigantic reform of its health-care systems, says Shaun Rein in Business Week, based on research of his China Market Research Group (CMR). One fifth of China’s ambitious stimulusRead More →
Explaining China’s internet for the outside world – Kaiser Kuo
Image by Fantake via Flickr Kaiser Kuo does a brave effort to explain the internet in China for the outside world of non-geeks, an almost impossible thing to do. At Chinalogue of Bonlive he talks about BBS’s, human flesh searches and how older Chinese can work on the internet anyway.Read More →
Unbottoning Mao’s straightjacket – Zhang Lijia
Image by Fantake via Flickr Celebrity author Zhang Lijia tells at Chinalogue of Bonlive about the 1980s, when women started to find their sexuel liberation after Deng Xiaoping started to open China’s doors for the outside world at the end of the 1970s and other women’s issues. Related articles byRead More →