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World Fair

Filed in archive News on April 7, 2010

Shanghai Oriental Pearl TV Tower
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Shanghai hopes to get a big image and business boost when the World's Fair starts up there on May 1st.

This year's World's Fair is set to be the biggest ever. The World's Fair traces its roots to the French Industrial Exposition of 1844, held in Paris. That was followed across Europe by other similar national exhibitions. The first truly international exhibition was held on May 1st of 1851, in London. Since then Expos have been held (among other places) in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane; Vienna, Barcelona, Lisbon, Brussels, Milan, Dublin, Seville, and Hanover; Chicago, New Orleans, Philadelphia, San Diego, New York, Seattle, Montreal, and Vancouver.

The actual name for the World's Fair is Universal Exposition (or Expo); the Expos get classified as Universal, International/Specialised, or Horticultural.

The Fair first came to Asia only in 1970, when it was in Osaka, Japan. It returned to Japan (Tsukuba) in 1985 and came back to Osaka in 1990. In 1993 it came to Daejeon, South Korea and in 1999 it came to China for the first time - to Kunming.

The six-month long Fair is expected to draw in about 70 million visitors to China. Traffic at the Fair on the busiest days is expected to be around 800,000 people

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Seen that? - China Banks on Venture Capital Research Center

Filed in archive Best of on March 31, 2010

China Banks on Venture Capital Research Center China Venture News

Seen that? - China Banks on Venture Capital Research Center
One of my new contributors to this blog is Professor Mannie Liu. Located in Beijing, at the School of Finance, Renmin University of China, she also serves as the director of Private Equity and Venture Capital Research Center at the same location. A widely published author on private equity, and venture capital, she published the first book on private equity and venture capital in China in 1998. The government has [...] Read More


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China's Business Climate

Filed in archive News on March 18, 2010

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Jeff Nolan (Venture Chronicles) blogged this week about his recent trip to Southern China.

Nolan takes a close look at China's Guangdong Province. He visited a number of manufacturing facilities and spoke with business executives in Chang'an, Foshan, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen. Conclusion number one: there is a labor shortage.

Nolan looks at worker compensation as one of the issues involved in the labor shortage. He sees wage inflation in Guangdong Province cutting into the relatively small profit margin that businesses in the region have. He also sees the one child policy in China as part of the reason for a shrinking workforce.

Business in Southern China also faces pressure because of the uncertainty of the future value of the Yuan. The Yuan is tied to the US dollar. The dollar is weak. Both Chinese and UJS monetary policy is in a state of flux. That makes for insecurity in a region that depends on export.

Nolan's article is an interesting read.

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China's Hidden Borrowing?

Filed in archive News on March 14, 2010

Suzhou: is most of China's debt local government debt?
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2point6billion (a blog on economic issue in India and China) had an interesting blog post not long ago on China's "hidden" borrowing.

Officially, China has a public debt hovering at about 22% of its GDP. That's relatively low. The US has a public debt that's about 94% of GDP and the UK's public debt is closer to 380% of GDP. But Victor Shih, an economist at Northwestern University, has suggested that most of China's public debt is somehow shuffled down to local governments and may be as high as 96% of GDP.

Shih thinks that local governments in China will start defaulting on their debt soon. And he things the results will be a massive economic slowdown that will come to be known as something like the Chinese Recession of 2012.

Me? I'm not so sure. China's economy is resilient. And it keeps geeting revived by US investors. Maybe 2012 will be the year of the Chinese recession, but I doubt it?

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Shanghai Life and How to Print Flyers Cheap

Filed in archive Quick introduction on March 9, 2010

Huxingting Tea House
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Life in Shanghai is what you make it. Most big cities are like that. If you let it, a job in most cities will eat your life. If you can set clear boundaries between what's professional and what's personal you can maintain the balance in your life - do a job well and still have time for some sort of private existence.

Sometimes your professional life and personal life do manage to overlap, though. And that can be okay. I recently needed a brochure flyer for work. I also needed to print flyers cheap for a small community group I belong to. Online printing is often the best way to both. Why not do them together?

Shanghai is a beautiful city - if you have a enough balance in your life to afford you the time to see it. I personally like walking around in the old city - places like Yu Garden and the City God Temple, or the Huxingting Tea House. You can feel the history around you. Shanghai is a place to be enjoyed

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