Image by Fantake via Flickr Our speaker Victor Shih has been digging up an internal report by China’s central bank the People’s Bank of China (PBOC): most of the stimulus package goes to state-owned construction companies. For the time being Shih sticks to his guns: it is very doubtful China’sRead More →

Victor Shih by Fantake via Flickr While some might see some positive economic signs in China, assistant-professor Victor Shih sticks to his gun and does not see a real recovery. In his weblog he points at all those important signals that are still not well and not encouraged by theRead More →

William Bao Bean by Fantake via Flickr The China Speakers Bureau April 2009 newsletter has just hit the road and is available here to download. We announce here the upcoming Global China Chat with Sam Flemming on social networks, consumers and brands. The latest news from our speakers, the most-soughtRead More →

Sam Flemming by Fantake via Flickr On May 14 the China Speakers Bureau will hold its next Global China Chat, this time with Sam Flemming , the managing director of CIC, the leading firm for checking out online trends, the internet in China. Questions to be answers: How is the ChineseRead More →

Image by Fantake via Flickr Shaun Rein of CMR in Shanghai looks ahead at the future of international car makers as the Shanghai auto show opens for business today.At CNBC he explains why the top end of the market, Mercedes and BMW is still growing by 30-50 percent, providing China’sRead More →

Cover via Amazon Rowan Gibson, co-author of the Harvard-book “Innovation to the Core”, will be in Beijing in the second week of May to receive the Chinese translations of his bestseller book. The book will be published by the famous business publisher CITIC.During his visit, Rowan Gibson will be availableRead More →

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Dwindling value of the Chinese stock markets might have hit China’s wealthy dramatically, the number of millionaires on the mainland in Renminbi has hit a record 825,000, says Rupert Hoogewerf in his latest Hurun report, writes the China Daily.  More than 51,000 have even moreRead More →

Annette Nijs via Wikipedia Annette Nijs , currently Executive Director Global Initiative of China’s leading business school CEIBS, has joined the China Speakers Bureau. Through her career in politics, as a Dutch cabinet minister, and in business at Shell, Ms Nijs has developed an extensive network that supports her current position.Read More →

Sam Flemming by Fantake via Flickr In April we see at the China Speakers Bureau , compared to our March listing, a remarkable set of newcomers in the top-10 of most sought speakers for the month, although some have been there in previous months. Only the first four are maintaining aRead More →

Image by Fantake via Flickr A fast-acting government has organized a soft landing of its economy, says Shaun Rein  of the research firm CMR in Shanghai in an overview of the country’s stimulus package for Seeking Alpha. Consumer confidence remain strong and did not need much attention, he says, butRead More →

Arthur Kroeber by Fantake via Flickr The current global economic crisis not only has losers, it has also clear winners, says economic analyst Arthur Kroeber today in the Global and Mail. China’s stimulus packages might help you greatly if you are in the right industry, where China wants to boostsRead More →

Rupert Hoogewerf by Getty Images via Daylife Media have been fascinated by Chinese investors touring American real estate to buy, but the impacts might just not be as big as huge as expected, warn Rupert Hoogewerf , the expert on wealthy Chinese, in Business Week. While US real estate might offer genuine bargains,Read More →