China’s economy is been seen by many pundits as the savior for the world economy and over the last three years has proved the eternal flame of glowing production and growth, however there has been lingering doubt for the last 18 months whether China’s economy can continue to grow at double digits and whether its ……
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Front Cover Micro-blogging through various services has been growing over the last 3-4 years in China. It has become main news due to events involving natural and man-made disasters as well as scandals in pop-culture and officials. However, micro-blogging has now hit the mainstream conscious with today’s (August 1, 2011) front page of the China …… Recently I have seen some brochures from international design companies for the Chinese market. Some were good and others were down right appalling. I thought I would give some insights into what makes your marketing material good or bad for the China market. Lets start with the bad Too smaller size font for Chinese text – I have …… I was thinking about the places I would like to design a project in the world if I had the chance. The places would not be anywhere I had designed a project before and limiting it to 5 places makes it harder to choose. I thought about it for a while and came up with …… Cities are like brands – they need to have a plan, market, grow, and innovate. Cities can’t just plan and grow and expect investment, residents and tourists to appear. Just getting by can work for some cities such as Paris, Rome or Venice or other world-renown tourist cities – if that is the one of …… LG billboard for a new LG Android phone in a Shanghai subway station Android is going to have a big year in China and it will occur due to the market size, the number of manufacturers, phone cost and growing community. China is a big market for mobile phones – about 840 million subscribers and the …… 让子弹飞 Let the Bullets Fly a period movie starring Yun-Fat Chow, Carina Lau, Xiaogang Feng, You Ge and other well known Chinese Actors opened last week. The movie is a set in the 1920′s about a bandit and the gentry (good guy and bad guy film where the lines blur between who is bad and …… 5 star hotels in Shanghai are not in short supply with many local and international hotel brands represented on both sides of the Huangpu River. Today, with interest I read that Jin Jiang Hotel group has taken the lease for the 84th-110th floors of the new mega-tall Shanghai Tower. The Shanghai tower will be one …… Yesterday I stumbled across this document - China’s 12th Five-Year Plan: How it actually works and what’s in store for the next five years [PDF] by APCOworldwide. It is probably the best document I have found that describes not only the process of the China’s 5 year plans but also gives us some insight into what the Central Government …… |
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