China Speakers Bureau: January 2011

What China can learn from the events in Egypt - Shaun Rein

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The situation in China has very little in common with Egypt, says Shain Rein in CNBC, but China's leadership can learn a few lessons from the country's turmoil. When trouble will occur, it will come from the students, not the middle class.

While it seems unlikely a revolt could happen anytime soon – most Chinese still firmly support the direction the government is taking the country – the reality is that university graduates could pose a problem in the coming decades if they feel their future options are being limited by corruption or a weak educational system that does not train them properly for the global job market.

What China can take from Egypt’s situation is that it needs to stamp out corruption quicker than it is now. Even when government officials are not corrupt, many assume they are...

Second, while corruption in Egypt is a problem, it is nothing new. It has been an issue since Mubarak rose to power. What is new now is the depths of the financial crisis facing Egypt which is leaving limited employment options for the middle class. That has further stoked Egyptians’ anger at what they see as privilege and corruption among the elites.

To ensure enough good jobs, China needs to reform its education system to prepare its students for a global business world that is fast moving, not just how to take standardized tests.

More in CNBC.

Shaun Rein is a speaker at the China Speakers Bureau. Do you need him at your meeting or conference? Do get in touch.

Labels: Bamboo Goalposts: One Man's Quest to Teach the People's Republic of China to Love Football, China Speakers Bureau, corruption, Egypt, Shaun Rein

Fan mail for the Chinese Dream - Helen Wang

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Helen Wang's book The Chinese Dream got some solid fan mail in the Mercury News from Mike Cassidy. "Our best bet is to listen to people like Wang, who've identified the upside, and then get to work on taking full advantage of it."

Let's just say I'm her target audience. The truth is we've all seen amazing changes in China in the two decades since Wang left. And I'm thinking that some of those changes include the shift of jobs from the U.S. to China, serious concerns about the theft of U.S.-generated intellectual property, stiff competition from China for resources like construction material and oil and a move to a U.S. fiscal model that relies on China to be the country's key banker. And I'm thinking of one thing that hasn't changed fast enough: China continues to be a repressive government with minimal regard for human rights.

Wang argues that I'm focused on the wrong changes. That kind of thinking, she says, misses the big upside to the rise of China. Consider instead, she argues, the explosion in opportunities for the Chinese people, the chance now for those who work hard to start businesses or to go to work for multinationals doing business in China and other countries.

"They have a lot more opportunities," Wang says. "Many of my American friends are going to China because of the tremendous opportunities there."

And what is more: Helen Wang convinces Cassidy.
More in the Mercury News.

Helen Wang is a speaker at the China Speakers Bureau. When you need her at your meeting or conference, do get in touch.

Labels: China, China Speakers Bureau, Helen Wang

My-daddy-is-Li-Gang get a trial - Jeremy Goldkorn

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Jeremy Goldkorn explains in CNN the background of the online uproar that emerged when the son of police chief Li Gang killed a girl and thought he could get away with it. China's internet community watches his trial closely.
CNN:

It's more than just a tragic traffic accident. "There is a lot of popular anger about 'guan er dai,' the children of officials who sometimes literally get away with murder," says Jeremy Goldkorn, founding editor-in-chief of Danwei, a China media website. He said the online uproar is focused on "how likely it is that Li Qiming will get away with a light sentence, and whether blood money will secure his freedom."

Official media have reported that Li was drunk when he ran over two female students on the Hebei University campus, killing Chen and injuring fellow student Zhang Jingjing. Li allegedly tried to speed away from the scene. It was also reported that, when students and campus security guards stopped him, he shouted at the guards, "My daddy is Li Gang" -- referring to a local deputy police chief.

When indignant Chinese Internet users got wind of the story, they blogged and reposted it widely. Before long, "My-daddy-is-Li-Gang" went viral. "It spread on the Internet -- on blogs, forum websites and the Twitter-like microblog service Weibo," recalls Goldkorn, a long-time observer of China's social networking sites. "The public expressed outrage on the Internet, and the traditional news media and the government reacted to the Internet coverage of the event."...

"There have been enough similar cases over the last few years that -- according to Chinese media reports -- some government officials have now acquired 'Internet phobia,'" observes Goldkorn. "They fear of having their wrongdoings exposed by angry netizens."

More in CNN.

Jeremy Goldkorn in a speaker at the China Speakers Bureau. When you need him at your meeting or conference, do get in touch.

Labels: China, China Speakers Bureau, internet, Jeremy Goldkorn

Is China the fairest of the world? - Janet Carmosky

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Janet Carmosky is in Forbes using Snow White's tale to asky why the Americans are afraid of China.

Americans are feeling, at best, insecure in asking, “Isn’t China trying to take us over ?” Granted that China, unlike Snow White, is neither innocent nor harmless, but the question is still sufficiently shallow and paranoid that whenever I’m asked, I feel like the magic mirror. Clearly, and in response to shallowness, power comes from more than a growth rate and a current account surplus – for example, a culture that inspires and a track record of working to benefit the greater good. I think people who know this ask the China question to solicit reassurance on that front.

Carmosky explain - in great detail - that China does not want, need, can or are eager to the American in, in the way the Americans fear.

Understandably, we’ve got anxiety about our waning superdominance. But the Chinese are just doing what they need to do to pull themselves into security and affluence. Part of what they need is for the USA to stay the dominant power in the world. Snow White has earned a place at the table, and shown that she’s perfectly capable of taking care of herself. What’s a Superpower To Do? Pass the salt.

More in Forbes.

Janet Carmosky is a speaker at the China Speakers Bureau. When you need her at your meeting or conference, do get in touch.

Labels: China, China Speakers Bureau, Janet Carmosky

Most-sought speakers in 2010

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The year of the rabbit in nearing fast and it is a good moment to look back on how our speakers have been doing in popularity. So this month, in a deviation of our monthly practise, we composed a list of most-sought speakers for the whole year 2010.
Not surpringly for those who have followed our monthly proceedings, both Kaiser Kuo and Shaun Rein are leading the pack. Thousands have been looking at their profile as a speakers. Others are also doing well too, but their numbers are rather in the hundreds.
Kuo's surprising career change, by becoming the spokesperson of one of China's leading internet companies, Baidu, has made him the center piece of many China debates. And Shaun Rein is in our offers to clients always called the "most-quoted analyst on China". Even we might be exaggerating the many talents of our speakers, in this case it is simply true. But do not count out our other speakers:

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What America can learn from China - Shaun Rein

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America should not give in on its core values like its democracy, writes Shaun Rein in Forbes, but it can most certainly learn a few lessons from the way China dealt with the financial crisis.

First, although China's leaders are not elected democratically, they are (contrary to what many Americans believe) very attuned to public opinion. When trouble brews, they issue statements and new laws quickly. Skeptics say they do this because they fear being overthrown and executed, like former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, rather than from true humanitarianism. Whatever their motivations, China's leaders do in fact for the most part listen to the will of the people. Of course, they can't always fix problems immediately, but they do show that they care about the wants of ordinary folks....

America's political system, on the other hand, is increasingly beholden not to the wants of the majority but to minority special interest groups that hijack the national discourse. Take for instance our absurd gun laws. Our elected officials are so scared about the power of the National Rifle Association that no one is willing to take it on and do what most Americans want--limit the proliferation of weapons like the one Jared Loughner used in Tuscon. Somehow we can regulate how high shrubs should be or how often someone needs to shovel snow in front of a building, but not how safe our streets should be, because of the outsized power of a minority.

More arguments in Forbes.

Shaun Rein is a speaker at the China Speakers Bureau. When you need him at your meeting or conference, do get in touch.

Labels: China, China Speakers Bureau, Shaun Rein

Horror investment stories in China - Shaun Rein

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Shaun Rein recalls in CNBC a proposed investment of US§ 50 million in a Chinese internet venture that did not exist, and was only cancelled after some solid due dilligence was done. The investor "had only been to China once, when the CEO of the target firm had wined and dined him, introduced him to some supposedly high-ranking government officials, and showed him a packed outlet.
Rein summarizes:

Despite the many horror stories investors run into in China, it still amazes me how little due diligence is actually done by people investing there.

If it can almost happen to professional private equity firms, it can happen to you. Even though I have been, and continue to be, one of the biggest China bulls for over a decade and a half, I recommend a healthy dose of caution for most everyday investors before buying Chinese stocks. In fact, they might be better off investing in companies like Apple or Yum! Brands that make money in China but whose numbers you can trust.

Unfortunately, fraud is commonplace there and the investment banks, law firms, and accounting firms that should be protecting you and doing due diligence aren't doing their jobs. Why not? Often they just want to get deals done to get their commissions and, frankly, often they are simply not up to the job. I've seen many non-Chinese speaking executives fly into China for for a few days to conduct due diligence and get hoodwinked.

The whole story in CNBC.

Shaun Rein is a speaker at the China Speakers Bureau. Do you need him at your meeting or conference? Do get in touch.

Labels: China, China Speakers Bureau, investments, Shaun Rein

Chinese roads into Africa - Howard French

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Former New York Times correspondent Howard French tells Radio Open Source extensively of how China is successfully building inroads into Africa, after the failure of the West.

I was struck every time I got on a plane: the Westerners tend to be rich American tourists on their way to seeing lions and giraffes; or aid workers and NGO people — coming with a mission to minister to Africans about capacity-building or democracy and what my father used to do: public health. I say none of this with scorn, but the Chinese have a very different mission. The Chinese that I saw on the planes — and by the way, ten years ago I saw no Chinese; now they’re maybe a fifth of all the passengers — are all, almost to a person, business people. They’ve pulled up their stakes wherever they lived — in Szechuan province or Hunan province — and they have come to make it in Africa. And they’re not leaving until they do. Whatever it takes for them to make a breakthrough in farming or in small industry, they’re going to work 20 hours a day till they make it.

Much more at Radio Open Source.

Howard French is a speaker at the China Speakers Bureau. When you need him at your meeting or conference, do get in touch.

Labels: Africa, China, China Speakers Bureau, Howard French

Can America and China trust each other? - Helen Wang

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After Hu Jintao's state visit to the US, celebrity author Helen Wang addresses key questions about the relations between both countries in her weblog:

Although there are notable differences between the two countries, the leaders of both recognize that the U.S. and China have a lot to gain by working together. One of the concrete results of the visit is the $45 billion agreement allowing U.S. exports into China, which will create 235,000 jobs in America.

Author Helen Wang says, “In the long run, there will still be issues in currency, human rights, and intellectual property, etc., and there will be ups and downs, but I don’t think the U.S.-China relations will turn into a cold-war kind of confrontation. It will be a work-in-progress relationship.”

Some of the questions Helen Wang can answer:

Is China America’s worst enemy or best friend?
Will China’s growing middle class be a saving grace for America’s economic woes?
What are the secrets for U. S. companies to succeed in China?
Is it a myth that China is a global manufacturing power?
Why should every American student start learning Chinese?

More in her weblog.

Helen Wang is a speaker at the China Speakers Bureau. When you need her at your meeting or conference, do get in touch.

Labels: China, China Speakers Bureau, Helen Wang, Hu Jintao, Obama

Taiwan's missiles "no message for China or US" - Wendell Minnick

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Taiwan test-fired eleven types of missiles last Tuesday, but denies any link with China's Hu Jintao's state visit to the US, writes Wendell Minnick in Defense News.

Taiwan test-fired missiles of 11 different types during an exercise on Jan. 18 at the Jiupeng Missile Test Range in Pingtung County on Taiwan's southeast coast. The tests coincided with Hu's visit to Washington to meet with U.S. President Barack Obama.

A Taiwan military official denied the tests were an attempt to send a political message to Beijing or Washington. He said the tests were scheduled long before the announcement of Hu's visit.

There was a political message, Minnick write, but only for domestic use, after the J-20 fighter test flight in China. Unfortunately, that message misfired, as many of the missiles did not hit target:

Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou expressed disappointment and called for the military to better prepare itself in the future. A Taiwan military official expressed concern over Ma's remarks and described the test as a complex exercise involving different elements of the Air Force, Army and Marine Corps from around the island.

The tests were a rare event that included virtually every air-to-air and surface-to-air missile in Taiwan's arsenal minus the AIM-120 AMRAAM and Patriot PAC-2 missile systems, said another military official. The last public missile test at Jiupeng was in 2002 and was of a much smaller scale, he said.

China: US opportunity to reinvent itself - Helen Wang

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Many Americans fear the rise of China, Helen Wang discovered in many media appearances, she writes in her weblog. Wrong, "I’d like to focus on what makes America a great country to begin with."

The United States of America is founded on the principle that all men are created equal. It is based on the idea that regardless of one’s background, with determination and hard work, one can achieve whatever one aspires to in life.

This very core of the American Dream has continued to unleash enormous amounts of human potential and creativity, and is still attracting top talent from around the world. I have talked to many Chinese young people, and many of them expressed the desire to come to America and obtain a green card...

For example, a growing Chinese middle class will not only help the Chinese economy to rebalance from its current excessive-saving syndrome, but it will also create markets for American companies to sell into China and therefore alleviate the pain of America’s overconsumption. When the two major economies with opposite strengths and weaknesses can rectify and fortify each other, the world will be able to thrive on a virtuous cycle of globalization without being vulnerable to an American recession.

Most importantly, in order for America to live up to the challenges of the 21st century, it needs to move away from “the global dominance” mentality as stated in Rachman’s article. That is precisely the mentality that led to America’s arrogance in world affairs and caused anti-American sentiment in some parts of the world.

More in Helen Wang's article.

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Labels: China, China Speakers Bureau, Helen Wang, middle class

No news from Hu Jintao's state visit - Jeremy Goldkorn

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The Voice of America (VOA) asked media expert Jeremy Goldkorn about the coverage of Hu Jintao's state visit to the US, and he did not find that much news.

But very much boiler plate; the kinds of things that Hu Jintao said in his speeches were repeated unquestioningly in the media."

I was interested to see that Xinhua did mention human rights and the fact that Hu Jintao talked about human rights.

"They did. I don’t know how much of that was actually in the Chinese coverage, but there was certainly a mention of it. But that’s not really a new thing. He didn’t say anything substantially different from what other Chinese officials have said in the past."

But the VOA is not deterred. What about the bloggers? Jeremy Goldkorn:

"It hasn’t been a topic of really heated discussion. When it comes to America, there’s always a certain percentage of the Chinese Internet population that is inclined to be nationalist and to be very suspicious of America. And you certainly saw people commenting on, particularly after the stealth jet photos were spread around the Internet, you had a lot of people saying, ‘Oh good, now he’s [Hu Jintao is] going to America. Yes, we’re strong. It’s good. China should be strong. We shouldn’t take any nonsense from America.’ This kind of sentiment is fairly common.

But you also see another group of people who look at the coverage in the U.S. of the discussion of the decline of the United States and China’s rise, China becoming a super power. There’s a significant group of people on the Internet who are very doubtful of that and who don’t see China becoming an equal to the United States any time soon."

Explaining the Chinese dream - Helen Wang

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Celebrity author Helen Wang of The Chinese Dream: The Rise of the World's Largest Middle Class and What It Means to You tells Forbes' Beijing chief Edy Gapstein during her book launch how she defines the 'middle class' and explains why Ebay lost their battle against Jack Ma's Alibaba.

Helen Wang is a speaker at the China Speakers Bureau. When you need her at your meeting or conference, do get in touch.

US IT programmers for a China price - Bill Dodson

Bill Dodson

The pendule of globalization is now moving towards the US, notes Bill Dodson in his weblog, where IT programmers cost a much as those in China. An analysis of the moving IT market in the eyes of Bill's American friend:

“They sharpest ones (in India) took their money and left. And the country hasn’t cultivated the rest.” She was enthusiastic about the Dutch, who are producing some “amazing” technologies, she said. She’s also working with a Finnish team. “The Finns are doing some cutting-edge stuff,” she added. So what else is there to do during those long, cold, dark winter days, I wanted to quip (but didn’t). I asked her about the Chinese software team she had been working with six months ago.

“They were so-so. Nothing really sparkling. And now, because the economy in the States has been so bad, American developers are now costing me about the same price.” She gave me an example. “A Chinese team leader quoted me a price of 300 rmb per hour for a programmer. That’s more than $20 and hour: I can get a really good American programmer for that price – and we’ll have a cultural affinity that I’ll never have with the Chinese, even though they may just be a fifteen minute drive down the road from me (in Suzhou).”

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Labels: Bill Dodson, China, China Speakers Bureau, globalization, wages

Do not invest in Dangdang and Youku - Shaun Rein

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US investors should be very cautious spending their money on Chinese companies like bookseller Dangdang or video hosting company Youku who have no clear business model or otherwise a hard time to show a profit, warns Shaun Rein in this debate on CNBC.
While China's economy has been doing pretty well, especially Chinese companies who list in the US, because they do not qualify to list in China itself, should not be touched.

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The military do not take on President Hu - Shaun Rein

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The military take on president Hu Jintao by testing their J-20 stealth fighter just days before he leave for the US, writes John Pomfret in the Washington Post. Wrong, argues Shaun Rein in CNBC.

The opposite is true. President Hu is undoubtedly quite in control of China and displayed his power to Gates by employing a plausible deniability ploy.

A far more likely scenario than Pomfret's musings is that Hu is playing a cagey game. By hinting that the People's Liberation Army made the decision without civilian knowledge, Hu is showing he is reasonable and not warlike but the test underscores China will no longer be bullied by America. Hu's ploy of plausible deniability is in fact a common negotiating technique by the Chinese and it is surprising that Pomfret and other pundits missed that.

Many more arguments in CNBC.

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Labels: China, China Speakers Bureau, Hu Jintao, military, Shaun Rein

Is Groupon conquering China? No way - Paul Denlinger

Paul Denlinger

"From the perspective of those who have experience with the brutally competitive Chinese market where virtually no non-Chinese companies have succeeded, Groupon's management seemed to make all the wrong moves." Paul Denlinger tells in the Business Insider why Groupon is on the wrong track in China.

Instead of hiring local Chinese who had rich experience in the local Chinese market, it instead went to Harvard recruiting MBA graduates. From what everyone had seen, Groupon was setting itself up for a fall in China.

But then, Groupon announced that it would partner with Tencent to develop the social buying market. Tencent, based in Shenzhen, has long been the instant messaging and virtual currency leader in China, with more than 600M registered users in China.

The not-yet closed deal is an effort to let Groupon look nice for a possible IPO, focuses on the US market, rather than on a good China strategy. Tencent is a huge company, but has a bad reputation on e-commerce.

Another unmentioned player is Alibaba/Taobao, led by Jack Ma, which is the undisputed leader in e-commerce in China. For many in China, Jack Ma is a marketing genius, regularly inviting former US presidents and business leaders to major marketing events in China at the company's headquarters in Hangzhou. In addition, he has a close and cordial relationship with China's premier Wen Jiabao. For the Chinese government, Taobao's business platform has the advantage of being able to provide important leading information about the state of China's exports, in a way which is even more accurate and reliable than the government's own Bureau of Statistics. Without a doubt, Taobao/Alibaba would take a dim view of Groupon and Tencent's attempt to elbow in on their e-commerce space. Jack Ma has a famously long memory, and while he may not seek to hit back at Tencent and Groupon immediately, he may well wait for the right opportunity.

More in Business Insider.

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Labels: Alibaba, China, China Speakers Bureau, Groupon, Jack Ma, Paul Denlinger, Tencent

China brands suffer from 'made in China' stigma - Shaun Rein

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Many upcoming global brands in China still suffer from their 'made in China' stigma, Shaun Rein tells CNBC.

“The ‘Made in China’ stigma is serious,” flagged Shaun Rein, managing director of Shanghai-based China Market Research Group, adding that Chinese brands need to establish an element of trust with consumers, which will require higher quality control and more attention to the packaging of products.

“One bad case of poor quality products like a TV blowing up or a wall being found to have carcinogens will destroy these brands forever.” China has faced a series of scandals at home and abroad including lead-containing toys, tainted medicines as well as contaminated milk.

But that might change, Rein adds:

“Within a decade, Americans need to be prepared to see Chinese brands and not just the ‘Made in China’ label on store shelves.”

However, for the majority of mainland brands, Rein believes it will be a lengthy and difficult process before they are “accepted by Western consumers," citing Japan’s Sony and Korea’s Samsung as examples of companies that struggled to attain their status as the world’s leading electronics makers.

Chinese companies, for the most part, are just learning how to brand in their home market, he said.

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Labels: branding, China, China Speakers Bureau, Shaun Rein

Baidu's window on China - Kaiser Kuo

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Baidu's spokesperson Kaiser Kuo initiated the idea of an English-language weblog to offer the outside world a window on China, he tells the Voice of America. Baidu is China's largest search engine. The VOA:

Baidu spokesman Kaiser Kuo said he came up with the idea for Baidu Beat as a way of providing insights on hot trends in China.

A recent posting listed the top questions asked by Baidu users in 2010. The top entry was "What should I do if my girlfriend refuses to marry me because I don’t have an apartment under my name?"

“That particular question is very illustrative,” Kuo said. “It is something very much on the minds of Chinese people. It gets to a fundamental problem here in Chinese society. There is, to a certain extent, a lot of materialism. Women, who say they are being very pragmatic, simply won’t marry a man unless he actually owns an automobile or his own apartment. It’s not a renter’s market on the romance market these days.”

More at the VOA, including an audio clip. The weblog is called Baidu Beat.

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Labels: Baidu, China, China Speakers Bureau, internet, Kaiser Kuo

Key success factors in China - Warren Liu

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Warren Liu, author of the bestseller KFC in China: Secret Recipe for Success, has been building on his earlier success with a new book China Key Success Factors. Most business books on China focus on one industry or one company. Warren Liu has been trying to surpass that often superficial approach by analyzing what factors lead to success in a wide range of industries.
While the book is certainly not handbook into success in the China market, it helps to set a lot of argument on success and failure in China into perspective.

The book has been produced by the China Speakers Bureau.
Warren Liu is a speaker at the China Speakers Bureau. When you need him at your conference or meeting, do get in touch.

Labels: China, China Speakers Bureau, KFC, Warren Liu

How much spends a millionaire - Rupert Hoogewerf

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On average half of China's millionaires spend at least one million Renminbi (150,000 US dollar or 100,000 euro), says the latest Hurun report according to Chinese media, composed by Rupert Hoogewerf. That is 11 percent more compared to last year.
In CRIenglish:

Real estate is still the major investment choice of a third of the rich group, despite stricter policies on house buying.

Stocks come second, with 25 percent choosing them compared to 33 percent three years ago.

Meanwhile, many millionaires are choosing to invest in art and unlisted companies - two rapidly growing sectors - according to the report.

The rich also like to spend on watches, diamonds, wine, luxury cars, travel, children's education and entertainment.

More than 50 percent of parents are sending their children to schools in the United States and Britain. Canada ranked third, followed by Switzerland.

More in CRIenglish.

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Test flight for J-20 fighter - Wendell Minnick

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China has conducted its first test flights with the Chengdu J-20 Black Eager stealth fighter; reports Wendell Minnick in Defense News.

According to Chinese-language news reports, a twin-engine J-20 prototype flew for 18 minutes on Jan. 11 from the "Plant 132 aerodrome" in Chengdu in southwest China. "Plant 132" is the designation for the Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group. A Chengdu J-10S Vigorous Dragon twin-seat fighter served as the chase plane.

Photographs of the flight test can be found on the china-defense.com and bbs.huanqiu.com websites.

More at Defense News.

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Monday, January 31, 2011

What China can learn from the events in Egypt - Shaun Rein

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Fan mail for the Chinese Dream - Helen Wang

Friday, January 28, 2011

My-daddy-is-Li-Gang get a trial - Jeremy Goldkorn

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Is China the fairest of the world? - Janet Carmosky

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Most-sought speakers in 2010

What America can learn from China - Shaun Rein

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Horror investment stories in China - Shaun Rein

Chinese roads into Africa - Howard French

Can America and China trust each other? - Helen Wang

Friday, January 21, 2011

Taiwan's missiles "no message for China or US" - Wendell Minnick

China: US opportunity to reinvent itself - Helen Wang

No news from Hu Jintao's state visit - Jeremy Goldkorn

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Explaining the Chinese dream - Helen Wang

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

US IT programmers for a China price - Bill Dodson

Do not invest in Dangdang and Youku - Shaun Rein

The military do not take on President Hu - Shaun Rein

Is Groupon conquering China? No way - Paul Denlinger

Sunday, January 16, 2011

China brands suffer from 'made in China' stigma - Shaun Rein

Friday, January 14, 2011

Baidu's window on China - Kaiser Kuo

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Key success factors in China - Warren Liu

How much spends a millionaire - Rupert Hoogewerf

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Test flight for J-20 fighter - Wendell Minnick

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