While China’s booming e-commerce market has ushered in exciting opportunities, it also comes with its fair share of risks. 

China’s influence on the global business environment, economy and markets has been thrown into stark relief by events during the past two months.

If promulgated in its current state, the second draft of the Foreign NGO Management Law, published on 5th May, 2015, could completely alter the way foreign NGOs operate in China.

 A Rising Country with Rising Concerns

In order to successfully develop a globally-recognised brand, educational institutions often find the quickest route is to find an overseas partner.

Over the last two decades, competition in China’s business education market has become more intense.

When China first began the process of integrating into the global economy there was a necessary and rapid assimilation of Western business practices.

The number of foreign students in China has been growing annually since December 1950, when Tsinghua University enrolled the first batch of overseas students since the People’s Republic of China was founded.

Since China’s second stage of opening-up took effect in the 1990s, the number of international schools for foreign students in China’s first- and second-tier cities has grown rapidly.

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