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January 14, 2008

Job Posting

The Eurasia Group is looking for a China Analyst to be based in New York or DC. More on this page.

August 29, 2006

EVENT: COMMERCE OFFICIAL SPEAKS ON CHINA IN MANHATTAN

“Doing Business in China”

Speaker: Jonathan M. Heimer, Deputy Principal Commercial Officer, U.S. Commercial Service, Consulate General of the U.S., Shanghai

Time: Friday, September 8, 2006, 8:30 am – 10:30 am
Location: Weissman Center for International Business, Baruch College, Room 14-285, 55 Lexington (corner of Lexington and 24th Street), New York City

Topics addressed include

* The state of China's Intellectual Property Rights
* What measures are you exercising to protect your IPR in China?
* Payment scams by Chinese companies.
* Why is China’s legal environment currently under attack?
* Why the recent upswing in Chinese economic nationalism?
* Export services to China -- financial, legal, and marketing -- provided by the U.S. Commercial Service to U.S. exporters.

Presented by the Commercial Service of the U.S. Department of Commerce and The Weissman Center for International Business.
For further information, contact:

Alice Chan, International Trade Specialist
Tel: 212-809-2678
U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Commercial Service
New York U.S. Export Assistance Center
www.buyusa.gov/nyc

May 4, 2006

Food and Beverage Franchising Study Available

Among the more useful of the quasi-marketing documents put out by the big firms is one entitled "Franchising Opportunities in China, Japan and Singapore," prepared by PWC for the APEC Secretariat. Please don't spend the $60 APEC wants you to dole out for this study since it is available free of charge here. [UPDATE: THIS STUDY IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE AT THIS LINK.]

Many readers have found their way to the Asia Business Intelligence website by way of keyword searches at Google and Baidu for "franchise Asia" and the like, so this study is something to peruse that is directly applicable to that need.

That said, the Chinese section of the study appears to incorporate an odd amalgam of sources varying in trustworthiness from Euromonitor to the Chinese statistics bureau. Not all is new information -- some 3 years old -- and you'll find some of the grammar strange in places (a translation?). Nonetheless, the study is a beginning, at least for those who are just beginning to think about operating food and beverage franchises in China.

March 31, 2005

China Environmental Business Newsletter

The US-China Environmental Business Newsletter, containing business opportunities, conference announcements and new, is available free of charge from the U.S. Commercial Service. A sample of its content from the March, 2005, issue:

1) New ADB Procurement Notice on Jilin Water Supply and Sewerage Development
Project Name Jilin Water Supply and Sewerage Development
Project No.: PRC 36507-01
Executing Agency: Jilin Provincial Government
Loan Amount: $ 100 million

The Project aims to enhance the urban environment and public health through better wastewater management, increased supply of high quality water and to improve...

Click here for the Environmental Technologies website and here for subscription information.

China Environmental Business Newsletter

The US-China Environmental Business Newsletter, containing business opportunities, conference announcements and new, is available free of charge from the U.S. Commercial Service. A sample of its content from the March, 2005, issue:

1) New ADB Procurement Notice on Jilin Water Supply and Sewerage Development
Project Name Jilin Water Supply and Sewerage Development
Project No.: PRC 36507-01
Executing Agency: Jilin Provincial Government
Loan Amount: $ 100 million

The Project aims to enhance the urban environment and public health through better wastewater management, increased supply of high quality water and to improve...

Click here for the Environmental Technologies website and here for subscription information.