Other Briefings
Investment Opportunities in Chengdu, Chongqing and Sichuan
Op-Ed Commentary: Chris Devonshire-Ellis Aug. 25 – Sichuan is the powerhouse of China’s southwest and has gained increased attention since the implementation of the Go West policy back in 2000. The province has benefited from lower operating costs than the eastern and central regions, with the added attraction of a massive population. Sichuan (including Chongqing) […]
Shaanxi: China’s National Science and Engineering Development Hub
By Chris Devonshire-Ellis and Fabian Knopf Aug. 24 – Resource-rich Shaanxi has seen significant developments in the past few years, as this most traditional of Chinese provinces enters a new century full of hope, promise and a gleaming makeover of its capital city, Xi’an. Like the most attractive of China’s magnets for investment, Shaanxi can […]
Guangxi: China’s Direct Link to Southeast Asia
By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Aug. 23 – Guangxi, in China’s southwest, has the geographic advantage of being in close proximity to other Southeast Asian countries, the world class financial center of Hong Kong, and Guangdong Province, China’s wealthiest and its largest manufacturing base. Bordering Vietnam to the west, Guangxi is connected to Hong Kong and Macau […]
Investing in Tibet, the Roof of the World
By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Aug. 20 – Foreign direct investment in Tibet is often a contentious issue, as Holiday Inn discovered following a shareholder revolt over their managed property in Lhasa a few years back. On the basis that running a hotel on the roof of the world demonstrated unwelcome support for China’s administration of the […]
Ningxia: Small but Beautiful and Productive
By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Aug. 19 – Running around China to see what opportunities there are has long been part of what our firm regularly does in order to keep abreast of new developments and to understand the country as a whole. It’s also a lot of fun; China often seems more a kaleidoscope of different […]
Investment Tips for Xinjiang, Urumqi and Kashgar
By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Aug. 16 – Xinjiang has been generating a fair amount of publicity recently as a potential destination for investment, driven by a variety of elements. Although the autonomous region in China’s far west suffered ethnic violence and unrest last year, things have been moving on. The impact of the uprisings of local […]
Chris Devonshire-Ellis: In China, White Goods Become Red
Op-Ed Commentary: Chris Devonshire-Ellis Jul. 30 – As the central government encourages a re-balancing of the economy towards more domestic consumption, companies are finding subtleties of selling in China that will shape the way forward for foreign manufacturers doing business here. Gone are the days when a manufacturer would only sell within a region, now […]
Kashgar to Become Economic Development Zone
Jun. 25 – The ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar has been given state level approval to establish itself as an economic development zone, the first in Western China. Kashgar, in China’s far west Xinjiang Province, is close to borders with Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan and already hosts Central Asia’s largest market. The […]
