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Suzhou’s Investment Zones 2007-09-01 06:51:03 Due in large part to its proximity to Shanghai, Suzhou was one of the first regional cities that foreign companies looked to setup manufacturing. More and more foreign companies are continuing to move to Suzhou to open new factories as the prices of land and labor costs are lower. For Suzhou, a city that has planned their economy to support and benefit from the growth in Shanghai, the foresight and planning has paid off. Many foreign executives located in Shanghai look to Suzhou before anywhere else for further investment in the south as operations can be managed from Shanghai if need. However, the city is also very suitable to supporting an expatriate lifestyle, and many project managers are opting to move to Suzhou full time Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP): Perhaps the most well known investment park in the foreign community, SIP is a joint venture between the Singapore and Suzhou governments. Since being established in 1994, the Singapore—Suzhou Industrial Park has att ...

iPhone: Made In Shenzhen, Assembled by Foxconn 2007-09-01 06:51:03 the iPhone is quite simply the reason I believed in Apple as a company 18 months ago when I bought shares. As I have mentioned on a number of occasions, it is its telecommunicationally challenged brother the iPod that has been a form of rechargeable sanity for most of my time in China… and that is why when I saw a few posts on the iPhone supply chain I had to write this post. Beginning with the recent Foxconn article in the WSJ, and my resulting post, I then stumbled upon Spendmatters’s Apple’s iPod Supply Chain post, which lead me to TEXYT’s article iPhone: Who’s the Real Manufacturer, which then took me the to Shumla’s post entitled The Apple iPhone Supply Chain, source of this diagram (more…) Read Original Post Here ... Iphone

Foxconn: Behind the Scenes 2007-09-01 06:51:02 A few years ago while working on a project for a global OEM in the construction equipment industry, I spent a week at the Bauma show in Shanghai interviewing 70+ OEMs and component suppliers who were showing off their products. It was a very tiring week, but what I came away with was that this was an industry that would one day be dominated by Chinese OEMs. There were already 4-5 very strong Chinese firms with in-house technologies, but more importantly maybe only 2-3 of those would have been considered a threat by the likes of Caterpillar, Kobel, Cummins, Bobcat, Parker Hannifin, or any of the other global OEMs (including my client). Many of the firms were flying under the radar while they collected technologies, built service platforms, and entered 3rd markets in Africa, India, and Eastern Europe. the advances were measured, the splashes caused few ripples, but once the market was lost… it was lost forever. for these firms, the element of surprise was key, and critical to th ...

Minxin Pei’s Take on China 2007-08-31 23:45:43 Often times in china, it is hard to see the trees from the forest. One runs around from meeting to meeting, typing reports, and doing quick assessments of what is by far the most dynamic market in the world. At times, trying to take it all in and connect all the dots is just something that requires more time than one may have. That is why I am an avid reader and follower of Minxin Pei and other scholars. Minxin in my opinion is one of the few scholars who I am able to not just read, but I can follow. his logic is clear, and it is obvious to me that he spends a significant amount of time delving into the issues and speaking to those in China who are in the drivers seat.. and who are passengers. His views are not always upbeat, and in fact one of the reasons I like his articles is that his analysis cuts through the “Shanghai = Living in a bubble” feelings that many of us have in China to make me sit down and think about some of the fissures that exist in the foundation of ...

FDI and Investment Zones: Part VI - Nanjing 2007-08-31 23:45:43 For the last several years Nanjing followed Shanghai more closely than any of the other surrounding cities. While not experiencing the same level of growth and capital appreciation, Nanjing has definitely benefited by its proximity to Shanghai. International and Chinese developers alike have properties in Nanjing (see the first map in the Appendix). It is not only foreign companies that are moving to the city. With the lower prices of land and labor, many local companies and developers are moving to Nanjing Nanjing High- and New- Technology Industrial Development Zone Founded by Jiangsu Provincial People’s Government and Nanjing Municipal People’s Government, this zone was ratified as a national new- and high-tech industry development zone by the State Council on March 6, 1991. Here organizations specialize in electronics & information, bioengineering & pharmaceuticals, and aeronautics & astronautics. To date the zone has attracted over 1000 compa ...

RMB Wrapup, Can China Sustain, and Will We Be Here to See it? 2007-08-31 23:45:42 Here are a few of the articles and reports that were at the top of my list for this week. It is a bit deeper than usual, but each of these articles/ reports contain information that I think everyone should take the 20 minutes to read and reflect on. Report - China’s Currency: A Summary of the Economic Issues (PDF) Lost in all the recent product safety reports, has been the RMB… and while I am generally against the idea that China competes unfairly from the “undervalued RMB”, I put this report on my list of things to read this week as it provides a generally fair and balanced look at the RMB issue. for those who are not familiar with the history of the issue, or what effect an undervalued currncy can have, then you will find the article particularly interesting and informative. Is China’s Economic Growth Sustainable? (PDF) During my nearly 6 years in China, I have gone from being awe struck by the pace at which things move, to more realistic. While limited in ...

Excuse my Absence.. I have been Traveling 2007-08-31 23:45:41 While it may seem impossible, for the first time in 6 months I failed to write a single post for 5 days. Of course, I have had a good reason….. Fly to Beijing (12 hours), drive to Tianjin and visit parks with clients 36 hours, fly to Shangahi then drive to Suzhou (36 hours), a day in Shanghai to meet engineers and laywers (24 hours), back to Beijing for conference (72 hours), and finally back to Shanghai. Before I am back on board fully, I need to ease back into things slowly and have found this Youtube clip to help me out. For those that have not seen for themselves the growth in China, it may sometimes be hard to comprehend what one is reading online or in print. My return to Beijing this week after about 18 months was another reminder of just how quickly things change… and my visit to Tianjin provided a glimpse of just how much change is left to be seen. What I really enjoy about this movie, besides the music (turn up the volume), is that whoever put this clip toget ...

Foreign Subjects Needed for Study 2007-08-31 23:45:41 It is not often that I use All Roads to promote a good, service, or company … but friends help friends My good friend at local product design house called Asentio is looking for some assistance in a small research project and was hoping that the readers of All Roads would be interested in participating. It is relatively pain free, there is a reward involved, and you may have a chance to test some new mobile products not on the market. Description of preferred subjects is below: We are doing a research on foreigners in China, may need your help in finding friends to participate in a 1 hour interview or keeping a photo diary about their life for one week. We want to know about the problems foreigners face in their life or visit in china – the research will help design a digital mobile product for foreigners. We will pay an incentive of 700RMB for diary and 200RMB for interview. Respondents should be US or European and working in / visiting china for less than 3 months. If inter ...

Food Fights, More Toy Recalls, and Guanxi 2007-08-31 23:45:40 Food Fights (subscription required) by James Rice An Op-ed piece in the Wall Street journal, James Rice (head of Tyson Foods China) addresses a nunmber of core issues related to the recent tit-for-tat product recalls between the U.S. and China. The message that readers need to take away from this is that these disputes have become poltical, and that is dangerous. That instead of politicans getting involved an inflaming the issues, cool heads need to look at each case Toy Story (part II): Mattel Recalls Again–and Apologizes… and “We knew about the situation” from the China Blog at Time addresses in detail the second Mattel recall earlier this week. Coming not from Mattel itself, but from the Consumer Products Safety commission, this recall once again rocked consumer’s confidence in China’s brand. Where most coverage has failed to date is to show that the magnets themselves were designed by Mattel, and their failure was not of the supplier, but of Mat ...

iPhone: Made In Shenzhen, Assembled by Foxconn 2007-08-31 23:45:39 the iPhone is quite simply the reason I believed in Apple as a company 18 months ago when I bought shares. As I have mentioned on a number of occasions, it is its telecommunicationally challenged brother the iPod that has been a form of rechargeable sanity for most of my time in China… and that is why when I saw a few posts on the iPhone supply chain I had to write this post. Beginning with the recent Foxconn article in the WSJ, and my resulting post, I then stumbled upon Spendmatters’s Apple’s iPod Supply Chain post, which lead me to TEXYT’s article iPhone: Who’s the Real Manufacturer, which then took me the to Shumla’s post entitled The Apple iPhone Supply Chain, source of this diagram (more…) Read Original Post Here ... Iphone

Chengdu in the News: August 2007-08-31 23:45:39 It’s that time again, and for those of you who are looking to keep up with the news in Chengdu you will not be disappointed.  There is a lot of investment going on. EMC set up its 7th solution center with investment of RMB 50 million yuan The world’s biggest IT storage company - EMC Corporation announced in May its collaboration with Sichuan Yinhai Software Co. Ltd to set up EMC China Solution Center (Chengdu), which is the seventh after the ones EMC established in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Taipei in China. EMC have invested nearly RMB 50 million yuan in equipments to build up the center’s demo testing platform. This center will bring in western regions of China the world’s leading information basic infrastructure demo, testing and application environment, and provide anti-disaster centers for clients’ key business data. Israeli CTC Group to build a 40,000-square-meters’ mall in Chengdu As is revealed, Israeli CTC Group through its Chinese ...

Suzhou’s Investment Zones 2007-08-31 23:45:38 Due in large part to its proximity to Shanghai, Suzhou was one of the first regional cities that foreign companies looked to setup manufacturing. More and more foreign companies are continuing to move to Suzhou to open new factories as the prices of land and labor costs are lower. For Suzhou, a city that has planned their economy to support and benefit from the growth in Shanghai, the foresight and planning has paid off. Many foreign executives located in Shanghai look to Suzhou before anywhere else for further investment in the south as operations can be managed from Shanghai if need. However, the city is also very suitable to supporting an expatriate lifestyle, and many project managers are opting to move to Suzhou full time Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP): Perhaps the most well known investment park in the foreign community, SIP is a joint venture between the Singapore and Suzhou governments. Since being established in 1994, the Singapore—Suzhou Industrial Park has att ...

Bank president: Subprime ‘won’t hurt’ CCB 2007-08-31 23:26:21 China Construction Bank (CCB) said its revenue won’t be affected by the US subprime crisis as it has only a small amount of US mortgage-backed securities. CCB, one of the Big Four State-controlled banks, held US$1.06 billion worth of US mortgage-backed and related bonds at the end of June, accounting for 2.75 percent of its total investment in foreign exchange bonds, it said in its interim report yesterday. “CCB did have a loss from the investment if calculated at the current market value of the securities,” said Zhang Jianguo, president of the bank. “But the loss is not significant enough to seriously affect revenue and is well within CCB’s capacity to bear.” Zhang said the bank held US$460 million in US subprime mortgage-backed bonds, accounting for less than half of its total investment of $1.062 billion in US mortgage-backed and related bonds. He said the US securities it held had high credit ratings of A or above and more than 80 percent were ... President

China’s inflation to surpass 3% for full year 2007-08-31 23:26:20 This year’s consumer inflation is likely to exceed the central bank’s target of 3 percent, a top official said yesterday. “Given the relatively high inflation in the first seven months of the year, even if we step up control measures now, the consumer price rise will still probably be above 3 percent for the whole year,” Su Ning, vice-governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), told a news conference in Beijing yesterday. “The central bank is paying close attention to changes in prices and will take further macroeconomic control measures to keep prices stable,” Su said. Spurred by surging food prices, the consumer price index, a key gauge of inflation, hit a 10-year high of 5.6 percent in July, up from 4.4 percent in June. The average inflation in the first seven months rose 3.5 percent year on year. Food prices, which make up about a third of the inflation basket, rose 15.4 percent year on year last month. Prices in the first seven months ...

Anti-Monopoly Law Passed 2007-08-31 21:17:17 China has announced the passing of its anti-monopoly law (which will come into force on 1 August, 2008), but it is perhaps a bit too early to say what it all means. In the enlightening words Dan Harris at China Law Blog: “The big question is how this new law will impact foreign businesses that are in or doing business with China and my unequivocal answer is that I am not prepared to say.” Well put! I am in Beijing at the moment, and saw the news in as the main headline in China Daily. I was interested to note the sub-heading: “Foreign mergers or acquisitions of local firms face strict checks”. The protection of strategic interests is clearly high on the agenda. As Dan points out, it will all come down to application. And for that we will have to wait and see. In the meatime, Dan has provided some useful links on the subject. Read Original Post Here ...