China wants to boost consumer spending – Kathy Fong
From The Star: A third consumption boom is in full swing in China, as consumers there loosened their purse strings, spurred by Government measures to boost their disposable incomes. Shanghai folks...
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Audi Looks to China for Sales Records as Price War Brews
From The Local: Audi is targeting sales of “more than 200,000 units in 2010″ in China and “around 300,000 in 2012,” sales chief Peter Schwarzenbauer told a telephone news conference. Last year, Audi...
View ArticleHas China's Economy Finally Jumped the Shark?
In a recent Letter from China, Evan Osnos recalled Japan’s excesses in the late 1980s, and wondered whether a Chinese tycoon’s attempt to buy a large swathe of north-eastern Iceland might mark a...
View ArticleLand in China: Über Touchy
On his personal blog, Jonah Kessel writes about the making of his three-part video project ‘China’s Consuming Billion’, which accompanies the second installment of The New York Times’ latest series on...
View ArticleChina’s Industrial Growth ‘A Threat To Resources’
Li Jing at The South China Morning Post reports on a United Nations Environment Program study on China’s resource consumption. The study finds that the speed and scale of resource consumption in the...
View ArticleIs China’s Pork Consumption Hurting The West?
While Americans eat nearly twice as much meat individually as their Chinese counterparts every year, Beth Hoffman at Forbes reports that with a population of 1.35 billion, “China now consumes double...
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