它是一缓慢的新闻天-除那整体以外一年对去事-，并且，当我们被诱惑跑以这个故事从上海日报时，我们的自然更好的天使战胜，并且改为，我们决定重印节录从我们普遍的“常见错误和错觉，当投资在中国-和如何避免他们”中国简报问题从7月去年时。

常见错误，当使用中国职员设定或管理您的公司时

投入他们由一切控制
是，有如此好和高效率的地方中国人帮助您以设定您的中国操作，包括所有营业执照，办公室的所有方面，银行帐户，处理所有文献等等也许是非常有用的。 语言和官僚是几乎难理解的，并且您是繁忙的企业经营者。 但等待; 它是否是正常商业惯例任何地方有一个人由您的国家操作控制的所有方面？ 不，它不是，和以非常充足的理由。

他们的能力可能不舒展就国际能力
虽然他们也许实际上是诚实和有用的，外国公司在中国和报告的结构必须被执行他们的方式必须经历，是非常与中国公司必须也是遵守的那些不同。 实际上，外国企业在中国面孔更多察视比中国公司。 If your employee, good as they are, is not familiar with the regulatory aspects concerning operating and maintaining an international office or business in China, chances are there will be issues your company will immediately be out of compliance with. That can and does get expensive. Additionally, there are circumstances where the employee may deliberately keep the company out of compliance – to obtain benefits or other leeway later if any argument arises against their favor later on.

Having one person in control of all your corporate documents and/or banking
Very common. The risks are obvious. You can lose all your abilities to operate the company overnight if he/she decides to walk out of the door. Plus all your money.

Insertion of family and friends into your supply chain
This is very common. You need to audit your purchasing and sales departments regularly to ensure employees are not placing orders with companies owned by friends or relatives that are then charging your business at rates well over the market odds.

Setting up of parallel businesses
In one particularly nasty case we were called in to investigate, two Canadian-Chinese were hired, having worked for the parent company overseas for several years, to establish a China manufacturing entity. This they did, however the China business never was able to attain anywhere like the projected sales, and had to be continuously funded from the parent to tide it over. A variety of “market conditions,” “competitor pricing” and so on were given as excuses. When, just before a new US$1 million investment was to be injected into the China entity, the parent decided just have a quick look-see internal audit – things started to become clear. The two trusted employees had established a mirror company, with similar sounding Chinese name to the international brand, and had been diverting all orders to that business instead. “Local competitive pricing” indeed. From a business the staff themselves had established to compete with their employers.

Common mistakes when hiring expatriate employees to set up and run your China entity

There are problems with expatriate staff as well. Especially, (and unfortunately) often with personnel in professional services.

Hiring lawyers with no China experience
Expensive, and not really much point, especially if their Chinese language capabilities are minimal. However, many look good, and although their firms may have a China presence, what about their individual presence in China? International lawyers are great at international work – cross border structuring and so on – but far too many of them profess expertise in areas of China practice they are neither qualified or experienced to be dealing with. Are you looking for a salesman selling his firm, or proper advice? Really, if you need to hire a lawyer with China experience – go to a firm that has the real thing. That’s what they are there for, and China has had private lawyers now for 15 years - Google their names to see how well known they are.

Hiring personnel On their language skills alone
Well, everyone has to start somewhere. But a new kid just out of language school is still a new kid out of language school, and will have no experience dealing with the “China issues.” Don’t expect miracles. And two years in China does not an expert make. Young graduates do have skills of course, but don’t weigh them down too much with managerial responsibilities before they have had time to adjust them to a commercial business environment and have found their feet around your business. A management development program designed to maximize on their language skills yet introduce them to your business will reap greater rewards both for you and for them if you treat them with continuing educational attention.

The China guys
Expats of note are those who really know their way around, and can steer you away from all the problems. They will have a good grasp of the language, and may well have settled down with family here. You cannot survive in China without knowing how to get on, and this is a matter of experience as well as possessing inherent patience, tenacity and people and communications skills. They are available – interestingly at this time, many of the established multinationals are localizing and expatriate engineering and other talent is perhaps more available in China than ever before.