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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: consumer goods industry maintains stable growth

China’s consumer goods industry kept stable development in the first four months this year, thanks to rising domestic demand that offsets falling export triggered by the Financial Crisis, said the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) recently […]

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Autodesk and the Clinton Climate Initiative Join Forces to Support the Building of Sustainable Cities

As a world leader in 2D and 3D design and engineering software, the most important contribution Autodesk can make to address global sustainability challenges is to provide customers with innovative technologies. A new tool being developed will help cities manage their greenhouse gas emissions levels […]

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Intellectual Property: Survey shows public awareness of IPR low in China

Results of a recent survey show that while Beijing and Guangdong residents have a reasonably high awareness of the issues surrounding intellectual property rights (IPR), the majority of their fellow countrymen know little about the question […]

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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: Volkswagen sales in China rises 9% and breaks record in March/2009

Europe’s largest auto maker Volkswagen AG said recently its sales in China rose 9 percent year on year to a record monthly high in March, buoyed by the country’s overall strong demand for cars. New vehicles sold in China totaled 112,466 units in March, the first month of this year that saw sales exceeding 100,000 units, said the Volkswagen Group China in a statement […]

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Intellectual Property: Canada joins China, Russia in US list of top IP scofflaws

The usual suspects have shown up once again on the US Trade Representative’s annual Special 301 report on nations that need to step up their game when it comes to enforcing intellectual property rights. But this year, the USTR elevated Canada to the same level as China and Russia, which has some critics incredulous towards the US’ motives […]

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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: looks to its own consumers

China is rebalancing its economy to focus more on domestic consumption than exports in order to achieve its growth target, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has said. Addressing an Asian regional forum in southern China, he announced a $10bn (over 1.5 billion US dollars) fund for infrastructure projects in south-east Asia […]

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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: 6 in 10,000 people are multimillionaires?

6 in every 10,000 people in China have a personal wealth of more than 10 million yuan ( nearly 1.5 million US dollars), shows the recently issued “Hurun Wealth Report 2009”. After the report came out, it immediately raised a lot of doubts among netizens: “Have Chinese people really become so rich?” […]

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Ideate supports Autodesk program for displaced workers

Ideate has announced it will participate in the Autodesk Assistance Program for displaced workers, providing education, support and tools to its customers. Today’s economic challenges have impacted Ideate, Inc.’s customers significantly and the Autodesk Assistance Program will help people to enhance, maintain and improve their 3D design technology skills to remain competitive in the marketplace […]

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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: Hurun issues report on wealth decline for China’s top 20 richest people

The Hurun Research Institute recently released a report showing the plummet in wealth of the top 20 richest people on the 2008 China Rich List. According to the report, the net worth of the stakes that China’s top 20 richest people hold in their listed companies had shrunk by 91.1 billion yuan or 40 percent […]

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Hans Rosling’s “New insights on poverty and life around the world” talk at TED

Researcher Hans Rosling uses his cool data tools to show how countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. He demos Dollar Street, comparing households of varying income levels worldwide. Then he does something really amazing […]