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The End of Cheap China
[…] and Managing Director of the China Market Research Group, and he is also a frequent contributing commentator on cnbc.com. Shaun's new book is titled The End of Cheap China. In the book, he interviews Chinese billionaires, senior government officials, migrant workers and even prostitutes to track China's evolution, leading to his insights on how […]
ZGBriefs | May 24, 2018
Baozi vs. Jiaozi (May 20, 2018, Transparent Language) Both are cheap, delicious little bundles of joy, so you really can’t go wrong either way.
ZGBriefs | August 27, 2020
[…] 1950s, the iconic green trains are a relic of another age, differing in almost every way from the sleek high-speed rail cars replacing them. Tickets are dirt- cheap. The carriages are crowded, chaotic, and stifling in the summer heat. It can take hours for the lumbering locomotives to chug between cities. Sponsored Link Webinar: […]
September 20, 2012
[…] to City in a Changing China, explains in this talk from TEDGlobal 2012, those emotions obscure a larger point that factory workers arent simply toiling to provide cheap products to the West. They are also toiling to make products for their own people, as well as to change their personal circumstances.SPECIAL SECTION: SINO-JAPANESE TENSIONS […]
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The Future of Business as Mission in China
[…] do this for more than two years. However, with China building miles and miles of high-speed trains crisscrossing hundreds of cities across China, the increasing availability of cheap local flights, national phone calls becoming cheaper and the increase of Internet access (now approaching one-third of Chinese homes), many people are more willing to live […]
ZGBriefs | July 11, 2024
[…] to be announced at the Chinese Communist Party’s third plenum on July 15 that will supposedly make all the difference. EU Plan to Impose Import Duty on Cheap Goods Could Dent Shein and Temu (July 3, 2024, The Guardian) The EU is moving forward with plans to impose customs duty on cheap goods in […]
February 7, 2013
[…] / TECHNOLOGY / ENVIRONMENT A week in smog-bound Beijing's 'airpocalypse' in pictures (February 1, 2013, The Guardian) BUSINESS / ECONOMICS / FOREIGN TRADE IMF: The era of cheap labor in China may be ending (February 1, 2013, The Washington Post) China is on the eve of a demographic shift that will have profound consequences […]
View From the Wall
China’s Modern Family Problems
[…] this traditional family structure is very much at odds with a globalized and modernized culture. One essential requirement for rapid economic growth is the free flow of cheap labor. Agricultural reform relieved farmers from farm labor and supplied an abundant, cheap labor force for China’s economic expansion. Millions of farmers left their land and […]
June 19, 2014
[…] real estate types to dive for cover. 52 Chinese Brands You Ought to Know (June 13, 2014, Nanjing Marketing Group) Gone is the myth that China produces cheap goods that no one wants. Im going to look at the biggest Chinese companies and how they are developing. Below is a list of categories. For […]
Stewarding the Environment
China’s Energy Future
[…] Mikkal E Herberg and Zhidong Li. NBR Special Report (The National Bureau of Asian Research) 47, no. (November 2014), 10. ^ "China's Smog War Seen Dooming Coal on " Cheap but Dirty" Purge." BloombergBusiness. May 19, 2015. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-18/china-war-on-smog-seen-dooming-coal-amid-cheap-but-dirty-purge (accessed May 20, 2015). ^ Andrews-Speed, “China’s Energy,” 12. ^ Herberg, Mikkal E. "China's Search for Oil and Gas Security: Prospect and […]