2011 State of American Business in China White Paper

Beijing Review

Article

Upward And Unchanged

Mar 24, 2022

In an interview with Beijing Review reporter Tao Xing, Zhang Yansheng, principal researcher with the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, shared his assessments of China’s macroeconomic landscape. Edited excerpts of his views follow: La

Beijing Review

Article

Unshaken Confidence

Apr 30, 2020

Despite media reports about the Japanese Government’s new economic stimulus package to help Japanese companies move back home from China and U.S. President Donald Trump’s Chief Economic Advisor Larry Kudlow saying similar things about U.S. companies

Beijing Review

Article

Signs of Recovery

Aug 6, 2020

Saravoot Yoovidhya has several attachments to China. The CEO of Thailand’s TCP Group, a major player in the energy drink market, says Hainan in southernmost China is his family’s ancestral home. Also, China is the largest market for his company’s pro

Beijing Review

Article

Making the Most of China’s Future

Mar 10, 2022

The Center for China and Globalization released Transition and Opportunity: Strategies from Business Leaders on Making the Most of China’s Future on February 24. At a roundtable inside the center’s Beijing headquarters, various contributors to the bo

Beijing Review

Article

Still a Magnet

Jun 10, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic still spreading globally has forced people to wear masks and reduce their outdoor activities, but women in pursuit of beauty have never really ceased to buy cosmetics. According to U.S.-based cosmetics giant Estée Lauder, its ne

Beijing Review

Article

A More Nuanced Economic Assessment

Sep 28, 2023

Whether the Chinese economy has peaked is becoming a hotly contested topic in the West. The cover story of the May 12-19 edition of The Economist is titled Peak China and claims a shrinking labor force, accelerating aging and intensified geopolitical

Beijing Review

Article

Ready to Unleash Growth Potential

Mar 7, 2024

The Chinese economy will grow beyond 5 percent this year if the government adopts more proactive fiscal and monetary expansion to stimulate domestic investment and consumption,  Justin Yifu Lin, renowned economist and Dean of Peking University’s Inst

Beijing Review

Article

Stable and High-Quality Growth

Jan 30, 2020

China’s economic growth has slowed down in recent years. The global economic gloom in the wake of Sino-U.S. trade tensions and the rise of trade protectionism have also given rise to concerns about its performance. However, data released on January 1

Beijing Review

Article

Premier Pledges

Mar 23, 2023

Premier of the State Council Li Qiang met with Chinese and foreign reporters and answered their questions at a press conference in Beijing on March 13 after the conclusion of the First Session of the 14th National People’s Congress, China’s top legis

Beijing Review

Article

Changing Gear

Jul 27, 2023

China registered a GDP growth rate of 5.5 percent in the first half of this year, the highest among the world’s major economies, according to data released so far. Given the complexities in both the domestic and international environments, it is esse

Beijing Review

Article

Economic Growth: Quantity Vs Quality

Mar 16, 2023

The quantity/quality debate is something we, as businesses, product creators and economic stewards, often face. Do we focus on high-quality/low-unit development or sacrifice some quality for the scalability of mass output? Both have their benefits an

Beijing Review

Article

Building Momentum

Apr 4, 2024

Since last year, concerns about risks in the Chinese market have dampened investors’ expectations. The government work report delivered by Chinese Premier Li Qiang on March 5 has set an economic growth target of around 5 percent for this year and put

Beijing Review

Article

Rebound And Resilience

Mar 14, 2024

Despite internal and external headwinds, China is on a path of focused, strategic, long-term recovery and growth. The Chinese economy managed to grow 5.2 percent in 2023, healthy even when considering the lower base for growth caused by three years o

Beijing Review

Article

A Wave In Motion

Mar 14, 2024

The Chinese economy possesses both the potential and ability to maintain its upward momentum. This is the core message conveyed by the Central Government’s newly released work plan. China aims to achieve a GDP growth rate of around 5 percent for 2024

Beijing Review

Article

Flee or Flock?

Jun 30, 2022

‘Foreign capital withdraws from China,” “Viet Nam to replace China as the world’s workshop…” Headlines like these are gaining much attention in the West. Citing the Chinese economic slowdown in the first half of this year amid COVID-19-induced lockdo

Beijing Review

Article

Bucking the Trend

Sep 24, 2020

Statistics from the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) show that from January to August, China’s actual foreign capital use totaled 619.78 billion yuan ($90.8 billion), up 2.6 percent compared to last year. Most striking is the figure for August, which st

Beijing Review

Article

Sailing Into The Wind

Jul 28, 2022

The term butterfly effect famously has its origins in the idea that the flap of a butterfly’s wing in Brazil can set off a chain of events that leads to the formation of a tornado in Texas, the U.S. It is used to describe how small, seemingly inconse

Beijing Review

Article

Eye On The Prize

Jan 30, 2020

The author is a senior researcher with the Pangoal Institution Over the past decades, China has achieved an economic growth miracle, particularly in 2019, amid global economic slowdown, sluggish international trade growth and mounting downward pressu

Beijing Review

Article

Progress Despite Problems

Dec 31, 2020

The author is research director of J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities, University of Colorado Denver Compared with the progress and status of China’s economy and trade, its financial system seems to be much less impressive and powerful. Many analysts

Beijing Review

Article

Cash Injection Boosts The Real Economy

Jul 22, 2021

The cash amount that should be reserved for Chinese financial institutions, or the reserve requirement ratio (RRR), was lowered by 50 basis points starting July 15, excluding those that have already held the ratio at a low level of 5 percent. The mea

Beijing Review

Article

Benefits Of Sharing

Jul 30, 2020

The author is president of the Center for China and Globalization As the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic continues to spread globally, experts have pointed out that a second, and even a third wave of the disease are highly possible befo