IN 2012 ALONE, 46,736 Chinese residents applied to take the GMAT exam, a crucial part of the application process for postgraduate management qualifications. According to data from the Graduate Management Admissions Council 2012, this increase of 252 per cent since 2008 made Chinese residents the second-largest group of prospective business school students in the world. … Read more
Recently, Ganlan Huabao announced a list of awarded hotels during its 2017 Ceremony held in Shanghai. Pullman Oceanview Sanya Bay Resort & Spa was awarded the “ Wedding Hotel of the Year” by Ganlan Huabao organization. The Guanlan Huabao was authorized by Wedding 21 Magazine, which is the No.1 wedding magazine in South Korea. It … Read more
Jacques Hayaux du Tilly is CEO for B&Q China. He has served at Kingfisher (B&Q’ s parent company) for 11 years, working at senior levels in many key functions including store operations, commercial, IT and strategy. Hayaux du Tilly relocated to China in August 2012 to take the role of strategic and commercial director at … Read more
THE GROWING trend amongst MNCs towards localising their recruitment in China, and hiring Chinese mana-gers, is one that is often noted. As the quantity of talented local staff increases, there is much less need for international companies to import expensive expatriate senior ma-nagement. At the same time, this trend does present something of a challenge … Read more
Turkey and China are eager to form a strong bond to link one end of the Silk Road with the other. July seems to be an excellent month for Turkish-China relations. Last July, China President Xi Jinping and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan addressed the high profile China-Turkey Business Forum in Beijing. In front of … Read more
Rath Trombones, Britain’s only indigenous bespoke trombone manufacturer, is interested in boosting its export business to China. “The trombone market is fairly small, and we need to export to keep growing. We cannot rely on the UK alone to sustain the business. Exporting enables us to take advantage of fluctuating economies and exchange rates,” states … Read more
Chinese construction giant China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) promises to hire more local staff for its operations in Djibouti. CCECC inked a MoU with Djibouti Technical Vocational Training department to employ a greater number of vocational school graduates in Djibouti. The company will hire more graduates from Lycee Industrial and Commercial School, which CCECC … Read more
ChemChina’s bid to acquire agribusiness giant Syngenta cements Switzerland’s position as a major destination for Chinese investments. As the snows fell in the Swiss Alps in early February, Syngenta Chairman Michael Demaré made a startling announcement from their headquarters in Basel. The composed Swiss executive calmly announced to the world business press that China National … Read more
Chinese stocks have taken the US stock markets by storm over the last two decades and American investors have jumped on the bandwagon. It has not all been a dream scenario for Chinese companies interested to list in the American capital markets, but all in all the stock listings experiment is a success. Despite a … Read more
All eyes were on the China-Philippine Summit as the leaders of both countries built important new bridges for future cooperation. No one knew what to expect when the straight talking, controversial President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte flew into China with an entourage of 400 businessmen lining up to sign billions of dollars of deals … Read more