Strategy more than commerce: China-New Zealand FTA
by Prof. Gary Hawke. For domestic consumption, the New Zealand government frequently trumpets the success of the China-New Zealand FTA in terms of short-run economic gain. So Foreign Minister McCully told the Foreign Policy School in Dunedin on 25 June 2010, ‘During the darkest economic days of the global downturn,...
Is China Growing Too Big?
by Chris Devonshire-Ellis. For many years now, as I’ve traveled China on business, I’ve been skeptical of the GDP growth figures. From Shenzhen to Changchun and from Wuhan to Kashgar, via Chongqing, buildings have been going up, rather like mushrooms after a rain storm, as signs of the new prosperity and...
Australia-China: Down under on the up
While Australia has always shared significant ties with China in terms of trade and culture, this strategic relationship has become more important than ever before. Elaine Wu from Shanghai Business Review contemplates this ever evolving and ever relevant (to New Zealand) relationship. CHINA’S RELATIONSHIP WITH...
MARKETING: Click to Add to Cart
China’s online retailing is growing rapidly despite the global slowdown, with overseas firms making a beeline for the sector, eager to tap into its vast potential. Although many countries were severely hit by an earlier global recession, China’s online retailing market appeared unaffected and even experienced...
NZCTA: NZCTA Now!
With apologies for plagiarising our other title but we thought it timely to bring members upto date with our activites and plans for the future. China moves forward remorselessly, about to become the World’s second biggest consumer market, leading (with some comfort) GDP growth amongst the nations of power,...
NZCTA enters into partnership with Export New Zealand
Media release 7 April 2010 Export New Zealand welcomes new Asian partners Export New Zealand (a division of Business NZ) is optimising the growing opportunities in the Asian market today by entering partnerships with the New Zealand China Trade Association (NZCTA) and ASEAN New Zealand Combined Business Council...
SECTOR: Second growth - China's wine industry
Chinese wine drinking has grown rapidly in recent years. Now local consumers are upgrading to better quality, imported wines. Hayleigh Davies of the Shanghai Business review explores this trend. Ernest Hemingway once said “Wine is the most civilised thing in the world.” If this is the case, China is...
EXPORT OPINION: World Expo country rankings makes for ...
By the time this newsletter hits your mailbox, it will be 41 more sleeps and counting to the World Expo 2010. For in-depth coverage of all things Expo I highly recommend World Expo Blog. This is in fact where I came across a ranking of the most anticipated country pavilions at the Expo. In early 2009 Millward Brown...
FEATURE: Ten Highlights of China's Commercial Sector 2009 ...
Each year Li & Fung Research Centre publish the authoritative and insightful "Ten Highlights" research report. 2009 was a testing year for China. Hit by the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, the country’s macroeconomic outlook has turned cloudier. We have witnessed more difficult...
LEGAL: How to start a business in China - WFOE
As a new year refresher course or for those of you unfamiliar with the process of setting up a company in China, we offer the following guide kindly provided by Dan Harris of www.ChinaLawBlog.com. This post focuses on the forming of a Wholly Foreign Owned Entity (WFOE) in China. I am starting with this type of entity...
SOURCING: Four simple steps for starting to do quality ...
Renaud Anjoran of Sofeast, China-based quality control consultants, offers some practical advice for implementing and succeeding at quality control when dealing with Chinese suppliers. Some importers have been buying from China for many years, and yet they have never done quality control in a professional manner. The...
MARKETING: Branding in China ~ The challenge of selling ...
In 2009, Columbia Business School hosted a conference exploring branding in China and India. With a population of 1.3 billion, China presents an attractive market opportunity for many multinational companies, as well as some unique challenges in building and expanding a brand. Columbia Business School MBA student Daniel Spear...