The Greater Bay Area and Hainan FTP: Comparing China’s ...
In 2018, China released its blueprint for the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), which aimed to integrate and transform nine mainland cities in the Pearl River Delta and two special administrative regions – Hong Kong and Macao – into an...
How to use China’s Negative Lists and Foreign Investment ...
Entry into the Chinese market is regulated by the country’s negative lists and encouraged catalogue for foreign investment, which stipulate restricted or prohibited sectors and sectors open to foreign investors, respectively. The 2019 editions of the negative list and the encouraged...
NZ-China FTA upgrade negotiations conclude
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Minister for Trade and Export Growth David Parker have announced the conclusion of negotiations to upgrade New Zealand’s existing free trade agreement with China. “This ensures our upgraded free trade agreement will remain the best that China has with any country,”...
2019 China-New Zealand Year of Tourism: Things to know
A mix of academics, policymakers, tourist attraction agencies and operators came together to share insights and perspectives on Chinese outbound tourism at an international conference in Wellington on 4 December. The “China’s New Tourists: New Zealand and the Year of Chinese Tourism” conference provided a...
Intellectual Property in China: Laws and Registration ...
Intellectual property protection in China remains a major concern for foreign businesses and a key target for establishment reforms. In March 2018, the National People’s Congress approved setting up the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), which governs China’s National Intellectual...
How Foreign Investors and Traders in China can Profit from ...
There has been much criticism of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in terms of how much money China will leave on the table for foreign participation in project contracts and infrastructure build among the 70 odd nations who have signed up MoU’s to China’s BRI. Diplomats have been put into...
Investing in Guangdong Easier for Foreign Firms after ...
On September 13, South China’s Guangdong province announced a series of investment incentives and cost-cutting measures to offset the impact of the worsening trade war with the US. The measures, outlined in the Policy Measures for Expanding Opening-up and Using Foreign Investment, consist of...
The Belt and Road Initiative A New Zealand Appraisal
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) presents a unique challenge of responding to a Chinese led initiative that could be a platform for furthering regional development and New Zealand’s economic relations with China but one that remains ambiguous, has divided international opinion and that potentially runs counter to some...
China’s City Clusters: The Plan to Transform the Country ...
The scale of China’s urbanization over the past four decades is a staggering feat in human history. In 1978, the year in which China started its policy of ‘reform and opening-up’, the urban population was just over 171 million – 17.9 percent of the total population. In 2016, the urban...
Agency takes risk out of operating in China
You're a company feeling its way in China when you get a call that a shipment of seafood is held up at the border. You don't speak Chinese and don't know your way around customs regulations. It's the sort of potential calamity that confronts many companies, and the reason why some have grouped themselves within a Kiwi agency...
Beijing Announces Visa and FDI Incentives to Attract ...
Beijing has announced new visa, residency, and foreign investment incentives in a bid to attract top overseas talent to its high-tech Zhongguancun Science Park. Those who qualify for the incentives will benefit from longer visa terms and permanent residence status – also known as China’s green...
How China’s best performing brands localise for the ...
In recent years ‘localisation’ has been one of the buzzwords for foreign brands entering China. Mark Tanner explains how true localisation is one way brands can ensure they are still competitive. Out of every 100 people you pass on the average street in China, 12 of them will be obese. Yet if you find yourself in...