11/22/2011 - Roy Graff has decades of experience in international travel marketing, especially related to China, and with particularly deep strength in online distribution. Fresh from WTM, the travel industry's he updates us on Chinese outbound travel and Chinese international tourists. Read More...

2/14/2011 - The average Chinese traveler has changed. No longer do busloads of Chinese tourist get off the bus to snap as many pictures as possible before rushing off to see the next attraction. Now many Chinese tourists are more affluent and travel more leisurely, taking their time to really explore and learn about an area. And please, let them enjoy some quality western food - they can get plenty of bad Chinese food in China! Read More...

2/11/2011 - Last week, Bloomberg assembled America’s A-list of China policy analysts, thinkers and investment strategists, gathered them into a room and asked them to entertain the New York investment community in the audience by talking about their weather vanes. As a standard opener, every speaker was asked to guess China’s GDP for 2011 (and most answers hovered between 5 to 6%). Read More...

10/30/2010 - David Wolf has been based in Beijing for twenty years, and founded a consulting practice, Wolf Group Asia, in 2005.  He has seen a very noticeable shift in China's manufacturing strategy.  Once known as the "world's manufacturing floor," China will soon be seen as leading the services sector.  Since opening to the west in the 1980s, the Chinese have been studying and learning from multinational organizations, and services are no exceptions. Read More...

7/7/2010 - Fireworks in New York on July 4? Pretty enough. But I want more noise, more flash, bigger crowds, and an obvious historical context. Thanks to China, I’ve gotten used to having my symbolic moments more orchestrated. Something more heavy-handed, over the top, and obvious. Like the Beijing 2008 Olympics or the Shanghai 2010 World Expo.
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6/5/2010 - Alex Fong is the CEO of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, a driving force in the structure and focus on Hong Kong's economy for the past 150 years. As Hong Kong integrates more deeply into an ever-more global China, we wanted to ask Alex, who was previously in charge of security during Hong Kong's handover to the PRC, how the economic, financial, and cultural aspects of the integration are proceeding Read More...

6/4/2010 - Alex Fong is the CEO of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, a driving force in the structure and focus on Hong Kong's economy for the past 150 years. As Hong Kong integrates more deeply into an ever-more global China, we wanted to ask Alex, who was previously in charge of security during Hong Kong's handover to the PRC, how the economic, financial, and cultural aspects of the integration are proceeding. Read More...

5/4/2010 - The Shanghai Restoration Project blends traditional eastern music with western hip hop and electronica, producing a unique sound. Together with Neocha, Dave Liang, founder and producer of The Shanghai Restoration Project, is about to release a new compliation of Chinese independent musicians at the Shanghai World Expo on May 4. Read More...

4/27/2010 - With more than twenty years in advising western real estate organizations on how to secure Chinese investments, Malcolm Riddell, President of RiddellTseng, has seen a recent increase of contruction loans from China-based firms - namely China State Contruction and China Export-Import Bank.  Two specific recipients are Baja Mar and Revel Entertainment. Read More...

4/21/2010 - Andrew Pan, the primary official contact of the City of Shenzhen in North America, talkes about the services his team provides to Shenzhen companies - including Huawei, BYD, Tencent and others - as they invest in the USA. Read More...

4/13/2010 - The wealthiest 5% of China's population - with the resources to travel internationally - is a sizable market at 65 million.  Based in Germany and with a new office in Shanghai, Wolfgang Arlt's company China Outbound Tourism Research Institute helps direct Chinese tourists to destinations all over the world. Read More...

10/22/2009 -  China Business Boot Camp Cleveland on November 3, 2009 begins with a tip-off talk from Len Komorski, president of the Cleveland Cavaliers.  Savio Chan is a TCBN Charter Member who works with another NBA team, the New Jersey Nets.  Yi Jianlian on the team gives the Nets huge appeal in China, especially southern China: which translates into Chinese sponsorship money. Read More...