China’s Wine Drinkers a Long Time Coming
If you’d popped into a Chinese village about 4,600 years ago, there’s a slim chance you’d have been offered a clay flask of wine. Although archaeologists have discovered Chinese produced wine from...
View ArticleAn Unexpected Ally to Solving China’s Fake Fiasco
China has long been known as the land of fakes. The country was the source of two thirds of fake goods seized globally between 2008 and 2010. Street-side stalls, shops and entire shopping malls are...
View ArticleHarnessing Smartphones to Fix China’s Pollution
China’s pollution is one tough nut to crack. Although the Government has pledged ¥1.7 trillion ($270 billion) for pollution control as part of the current Five Year Plan, it’s unlikely that more than...
View ArticleChinese Independent Travellers Eating up a Storm
Group travel has been losing its shine for some time with Chinese tourists. Research by TNS last August found that 62% of Chinese tourists would prefer to travel independently. This has been backed up...
View ArticleWeChat in the Bad Books
Over the past couple of years, there’s been no shortage of Western brands in the Chinese Government’s dog box. Some of the market’s highest profile foreign players such as Apple, KFC, Starbucks, Nike,...
View ArticleChinese Parents Aren’t Exactly Breeding Like Rabbits
Last December many applauded the Chinese Government’s liberalisation of its one-child policy, which allowed most families in China to have two children for the first time in 35 years. As a result, we...
View ArticleChina’s Health System Provides Plenty of Opportunities
A poor environment, unsafe food and unhealthy urban lifestyles are only partly to blame for Chinese consumers’ soaring health concerns. One of their most pressing worries is the state health system....
View ArticleWhere to Host Your Chinese Website
Many websites hosted outside of China are experiencing increasing traffic coming from the Mainland. Although these sites can be optimised for Chinese visitors by providing translations, localised...
View ArticleApple’s Strong Position to Compete in China Where Other Foreign Brands Cannot
Yesterday: 9/9, marked the much-anticipated launch event for the iPhone 6. As the world’s largest smartphone market, Apple is hoping its new phones will attract a healthy share of the expected 420...
View ArticleBig Data for a Big China
Big data is a buzzword that gets bandied around a lot these days, and with good reason. When companies like Google, and more recently Baidu, can uncover flu outbreaks from spikes in web searches long...
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