Food safety in China: a long correction

China has been hit by what seems to be a never ending series of food safety scares.

Reduced forex control in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone

China’s foreign exchange control has created complexities for international operations in China.

China’s broadband strategy

Although China’s telecommunications markets are developing at a rapid pace, Dr Thomas Hart of the EU-China Policy-Dialogue Support Facility says that overall they are lagging behind developed nations.

Up in the clouds: cloud computing in China

Cloud computing is becoming one of the hottest global IT topics.

4G is coming: challenges and opportunities in China

After two year’s speculation from industry and the public, the world’s largest communications market initiated the commercial deployment of 4G networks late last year.

We need to talk: how social instant messaging is redefining brand-customer relationships in Asia

Just when companies were starting to get the hang of Weibo and other social media platforms, social instant messaging was added into the mix.

Inside the firewall

Among the challenges of operating in China, one issue that most European companies face with their IT systems and business applications is how to provide their users in China with acceptably fast access to such resources. Time spent waiting for pages to load, or applications…

Bytes of China: opportunities and challenges in China’s ICT market

Despite the rapid catch-up process that is being fostered by the 12th Five-Year Plan and other influential policy documents, the technical innovation capacity of the Chinese information communications technology (ICT) industry is still weak.

Why systemic approaches are better

In the European Chamber’s Executive Position Paper 2013/2014, we made three main recommendations to the Chinese Government. One of these was to adopt a more systemic approach to overcoming challenges and problem solving, but what exactly does this mean? Mats Harborn, Vice President of the…

The key to EU-China IP cooperation

Benoit Misonne and Dan Prud’homme from IP Key say a number of significant pieces of intellectual property (IP)-related legislation in China will undergo revisions in 2014. In the following article they urge EU businesses to stay abreast of these changes, in order to contribute to…