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Dear Reader, Here is this week’s edition, covering:- Q&A with Shaun Rein - Recent developments and routes for enforcing intellectual property rights in China - China chapter one - Androgynous attitudes - About opening a foreign-invested restaurant in Shanghai We hope you will enjoy reading this edition. Have a nice weekend! All of us at China Success Stories Feature Article Q & A with Shaun Rein  Shaun Rein is the Founder and Managing Director of the China Market Research Group (CMR), www.researchcmr.com. He has been widely published, written about and quoted in newspapers worldwide. Over his decade in China, he has assisted hundreds of Fortune 500, SMEs and hedge funds determine how best to take advantage of the growing opportunities in China.China Success Stories asked him what you need to know about doing business in China, especially about how to market your products. What is the China Market Research Group? We help companies make smarter decisions in China by helping them develop strategies for expansion. We work with Fortune 500 companies and SMEs helping them get market intelligence and then giving them actionable items and strategies for growth in China. Our main competitors would be ... Read the rest or post a comment >> China Expert Guest Blog Enforcing intellectual property rights in China  China's growing population of over 1.3 billion potential consumers, coupled with their rapidly growing disposable income, is becoming a huge marketplace for products protected by intellectual property laws (IP). The disposable income of Beijing urban residents reached 17,653 yuan per capita in 2005. China has also become one of the world's main manufacturing bases for products protected by IP laws. Further, China's GDP reached over 8 trillion (USD) in 2005, based on purchasing power parity. As such, based on these numbers alone, the opportunity, occurrences, and profitability of IP infringement in China is steadily on the rise.According to recent postings by the United States Embassy in Beijing, China is the number one source of counterfeit goods seized by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. However, targets of IP piracy and infringement are not just U.S. or foreign companies, but also Chinese companies. For example, on a recent visit to street corner in Shanghai … Read the rest or post a comment >> China Expert Guest Blog China chapter one  What happened to me while I was writing this book.“Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, border, nor breed, nor birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!” Rudyard Kipling, 1889 When I went to China, I had a negative, self-righteous view of all things Chinese. It was a communistic, godless dictatorship. We, on the other hand, were a capitalistic, democratic, Christian society. Read the rest or post a comment >> Facts & Figures Silver You never know when these statistics might prove to be of value to you. So without further ado, here's our weekly top 10. Top 10 silver producing countries
Source: US Geological Survey, ‘Minerals Yearbook’ China Expert Guest Blog Androgynous attitudes  Gender confusion seems to be the topic of the day right now, with a recent report that cites 30% of young women identifying their personality as part-male, part-female.This has important implications for the workplace, especially for those who have yet to recognize the sea change in attitudes. According to the survey, which was conducted with 800 female one-child policy students from universities around Shanghai, about twice as many as a previous survey, 10 years ago, see themselves as part-female, part-male in their attitudes. These androgynous attitudes appear to derive from the intense competition that the current generation has to go through. Read the rest or post a comment >> China Expert Guest Blog About opening a foreign-invested restaurant in Shanghai  To open restaurants in Shanghai, you’ve got two options: 1. Establish a wholly foreign owned catering management company. 2. Simply open a restaurant If you want to franchise in Shanghai or intend to sell your restaurants in the future, option 1 would be fit for you, or you can simply open a restaurant. You don’t have to rent a room in an office block to have the catering management company established. For setting up a catering management company, a suitable place for opening a restaurant is sufficient. As soon as it’s established, you can start to open restaurants, bars or coffee houses as its branch companies. Since the catering management company, which is licensed to engage in investment consultancy, business consultancy, corporate management consultancy, catering (food, dessert, beverage, alcohol) already has most of the required licenses and permits for engaging in catering business, you don’t need to apply for them when you are opening branch companies. Read the rest or post a comment >> Comments Serge in reply to: Translation Business in Shanghai As a professional interpreter I cannot but chip in my 2 cents (looks like a buck now though)) From the obvious undercurrent of the author's words… Vanessa in reply to: Language, Culture and Communication Total agree with what you said. My new manager is from Hong Kong, same nationality with me, but she was grown up in Canada... Vanessa in reply to: Translation Business in Shanghai Colleague asked me to be her translator in her lesson since there were quite a lot of Hong Kong people. Serge in reply to Language, Culture & Communication Great post, I was thinking about writing an article on the topic (or a book like you) myself - with my modest - compared to yours - experience in SE Asia... Vanessa in reply to: China Lesson Eight “They do not trust foreigners", quoted from your article. I think that it is just because most Chinese people English level may not be good enough, so they lack of confidence... Lucy in reply to: Translation Business in Shanghai Yes, it is not easy to be a good interpreter or translator. I am working as a freelance translator and interpreter in Guangzhou… Celina Chan in reply to: China Lesson Eight I do agree that we have to be open and flexible. In fact it is not just doing business in China but also all over the world. In this age of globalization... Celina Chan in reply to: Like brother, like coworker Having worked in Beijing for nearly a year, I definitely agree that relationship is very important. This will make sure you have a harmonious work culture which a lot of Chinese value most. Julie Edwards in reply to: China Lesson Eight Hi Mr Tadla, I am interested in starting an Audio Visual company in China specialising in video conferencing... Sillygoat76 in reply to: China Chapter One I think this article over-idiomizes the difference between eastern and western culture as some biological brain function difference... |
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