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Education in China: 56% of student startups get low marks
More than half of government-subsidized student business companies were scored as "mediocre" or even "bad-performing" after years of operation, according to an report released recently at the Shanghai Entrepreneurship Week [...]
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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: The End of “Chimerica”
For the better part of the past decade, the world economy has been dominated by a unique geoeconomic constellation that the authors call "Chimerica": a world economic order that combined Chinese export-led development with U.S. overconsumption on the basis of a financial marriage between the world's sole superpower and its most likely future rival. In this paper, economic historians Niall Ferguson of Havard Business School and Moritz Schularick of Freie Universität Berlin consider the problem of global imbalances and try to set events in a longer-term perspective [...]
Gaming in China: Chinese government bans foreign investment in online games industry
The People's Republic of China is building a great economic wall around its domestic online gaming industry. Reuters reports the Chinese General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) is prohibiting investment by foreigners in the industry, through either "joint ventures, wholly owned enterprises and cooperatives." [...]
China Approves Disney Theme Park in Shanghai
After a courtship of about 20 years, the Walt Disney Company has won approval from the central government of China to build a Disneyland-style theme park in Shanghai, Robert A. Iger, Disney’s chief executive, said recently [...]
Posted in China, consumer behavior, economics Also tagged Anaheim, California, Disney, Disneyland Park, entertainment, Florida, japan, Magic Kingdom, Paris, Pudong, real estate investments, Shanghai, Tokyo, tourism, United States, USD, Walt Disney Company, Walt Disney World Resort 1 Comment
Intellectual Property: IPR threatens China’s new energy sector
Stimulated by governments' supporting policies, a large number of Chinese firms have turned to new energy and related industries. Over 10 large scale new energy bases have been established. However, experts say that China's emerging new energy sector may face a lack of core technology crisis [...]
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Architecture & Urban Planning in China: urbanization to create massive infrastructure investment
Some 300 million Chinese now living in rural areas -- the equivalent of the entire population of the United States -- will move into cities in the coming 15 to 20 years, said a senior Chinese official recently [...]
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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: boost spending to save economy?
The Chinese government is asking its people to spend a little more and save a little less to help get the country through the global economic downturn [...]
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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: the world’s biggest automobile maker and market
In 2009, driven by the stimulus package for auto consumption by Chinese government, China's auto sales increased by 18 percent and China became the world's largest auto producer with the world's largest auto market [...]
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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: Consumer spending helps boost Shanghai’s growth