1. SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
2. Outsourced Office

SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

This is the means by which your website is displayed higher up in search engine results, you can read more about this service by clicking here to go to our SEO (Search Engine Optimization) webpage.

As an example of recent work, have a look at the following results we’ve been getting recently for our own website:

Outsourced Office

By this we mean ‘Your China Presence’ or your first office in China. With this you can use the existing C2W infrastructure with your employees (we can hire local Chinese for you) to do market research, initial investigations, feasibility studies etc into the China market to see if it’s right for your company before you make the big leap.

Read more here.

If you want to learn more about either of these please contact our Marketing or Enquiries departments respectively.

The post is offered on a one year basis, accommodation will be in a company funded apartment and salary will allow a good standard of living in China.

Applicants must be prepared to undergo initial interview by phone. UK applicants should be able to meet with one of our UK staff for a face to face interview.

Travel to China must be funded by the successful applicant. Travel and visa costs will be refuned by China 2 West after six months in the post.

Located near the town of Frome in rural Somerset, China 2 West has offices and warehousing where we can receive and process goods (from single pallets up to full containers) on behalf of our UK based customers.

We also operate a fully insured drop shipping and fulfilment service leaving you free to concentrate on the important business of selling! If you would like to talk about how we can help, please give us a call

With a permanent staff of eight, the UK office acts as first point of contact for all UK enquiries and projects. If you would like to come and talk to us about your product idea or any aspect of manufacturing your products in China, simply call the office on 01373 837226.

The net space in the new office amounts to roughly 2.5 times our current size, this gives us ample room for our current staffing needs and room to expand in the future.

Be sure to check back over the following weeks for a post move C2W Office Video Tour.

If you’re an existing customer please be warned that due to the moving of the fibre optic internet cable the whole C2W team will be without internet from 2pm this afternoon, we’re hoping to get it back late tomorrow (Fri 2nd) but it’s not certain at this time.

Also be aware that C2W and China will be closed this weekend & Monday 5th April to celebrate Tomb Sweeping Festival. For more on the Tomb Sweeping Festival, check the Wiki link here.

Have a great day.

Mark C

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Senior managers at Nasdaq-listed Flextronics, one of southern China’s largest manufacturers, however, say at least one city in the Pearl River Delta could adjust wages as early as next month, and the scale could be more aggressive than in Jiangsu.

“I think they will (increase the minimum wage),” said Jun Fu, the head of the Flextronics sprawling industrial complex in Zhuhai which employs around 44,000 employees.

“I wouldn’t call it a drastic adjustment but definitely more than (the) normal adjustment,” Fu told Reuters.

Jayesh Menon, a senior director of human resources at the Flextronics plant, said the rise would most likely come in April.

“It’s about a 15 to 20 percent increase,” said Menon, citing indications from Zhuhai labour bureau officials. “Roughly to about 930 yuan (per month),” he added.

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In nearby Dongguan, a gritty, densely packed manufacturing hub in the PRD, factories have also been provisioning for a minimum wage hike from the current level of around 780 yuan.

“It will be implemented soon, in April I believe,” said Eddie Leung, a Hong Kong industrialist and honorary president of the Dongguan Association of Enterprises with Foreign Investment, who attended recent meetings with officials in Beijing.

Leung, however, said the impact for larger factories like his own that makes watches for global brands, might anyway be largely immaterial, with many firms already having stomached inflated wage costs amid the tightening labour market.

“The factories can’t hire people with the minimum wage anyway because most are already paying much more than it right now,” he added. “It’s (the minimum wage) just a reference point.”

Scores of the region’s smaller factories, however, in labour intensive and low technology sectors like garments, shoes and toys could be squeezed by the wage increase, he added.”

You can read the full article here.

Mark C

We look forward to working with you in the Year of the Tiger and wish you all a very prosperous and successful year.

All the best,

The C2W Team

Apart from perhaps some friendly networking, the objective of the group is to share experiences in manufacturing that would give other members the opportunity to question methods that have already been put into practice and discover more about how best to bring an operation (in the broadest sense of the word) into proper order. I always try to find a way of systemizing my work and my team but within the vastly unpredictable environment of Chinese manufacturing, this can be a mammoth task. With the support and advice from other experienced professionals working in this ‘niche’ field, the scale of the task can be broken down a lot easier.

In last weeks session we talked about a number of topics; some of these included the changing environment within the supply chain and where best to channel expert resource such as auditors and QA personnel. When a supply chain is as big and/or as complex as it can be, these decisions can mean the difference between success, an epic struggle or indeed complete failure. Of course nobody has a method for dealing all these problems, but some people have methods for some.

Over the coming year there will be more events for this newly formed Manufactuer’s Guild to discuss in the way of workshops, roundtable meetings, open discussions and seminars. We’ll see what comes of it.

Mike

Come back? Not for all the scooters in China
The Chinese way of working has almost defeated one British entrepreneur, writes Malcolm Moore in Wuxi

At 8 o’clock in the morning, the Bright Mountain Motorcycle factory in Wuxi, one hour’s drive from Shanghai, whirrs into life. But as the production lines start rolling and workers begin bolting together the day’s order of motorcycles and scooters, one person is not happy.

Unlike in the West, Chinese businesses aim to build relationships with their clients before they negotiate the details of any order.

I would recommend anybody to go to the following link to view this article, it’s an extremely interesting case study.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/china-business/6962490/Come-back-Not-for-all-the-scooters-in-China.html

At China 2 West we hear many horror stories not too dis-similar to Chris’ experience above. And without trying to sound too arrogant, this is the exact reason why it is worth investing in a service partner such as China 2 West to be your eyes and ears on the ground.

We and our competitors are on the ground here to do the due-diligence for you, development work with the factory for you and above all build the relationship; or ‘Guang Xi’ for you.

Have you had a horror story? Do you need somebody to try and rescue your China Manufacturing Nightmare?

If so we’d be interested to hear from you.

Mark C

China’s exports rose 17.7% in December, state media has reported, suggesting the country has overtaken Germany as the world’s largest exporter.

The rise, compared to a year earlier, breaks a 13-month decline in trade as a result of the global downturn.

Xinhua said total exports for 2009 were $1.2tn (£749bn), but total foreign trade over the year was down 13.9%.

Correspondents say the figures will lead to new demands from China’s competitors that it revalue the yuan.

Last year saw a continuing decrease in China’s trade as the global economic downturn led to a fall in demand for its products.

But in the last few weeks of the year, there was a far greater rise than forecasters had expected, with foreign exports reaching $130.7bn, up 17.7% on the previous December.

China’s General Administration of Customs (GAC) said exports overall in the year were $1.2tn, down 16% from in 2008, while imports were 11.2% down from a year earlier at $1.01tn.

The politically sensitive total trade surplus was down 34.2% to $196.1bn.

The figures suggests China will surpass Germany’s export total for the whole of 2009, although this will not be confirmed until Germany’s full-year data is published in February.

Yuan demand

A spokesman for GAC said the increase was “an important turning point” for the country.

“It is safe to say now that Chinese exporters have come right through the period of weakness,” Xinhua quoted statistician Huang Guohua as saying.

The BBC’s Chris Hogg in Shanghai says many of China’s producers are low-cost manufacturers who assemble equipment such as i-Pods using foreign components.

The latest figures are being seen as an indication that those manufacturers have proved resilient in the downturn and are benefitting as their customers restock, says our correspondent.

But the figures are likely to lead to renewed complaints from China’s trading competitors that its currency is undervalued, he added.

Led by the US, they say it is unfair that China has been able to make its good cheaper by keeping the yuan weak, but Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has said China “will not yield” to foreign demands that it revalue the currency.

Beijing has long said that it will not allow the yuan to trade freely until its domestic economy was strong enough to pick up any resulting decline in exports.

The slowing decline in Chinese trade has also been taken as a sign that the country’s stimulus package is working.

Beijing raised tax rebates on exports several times in 2009, increased tax refunds and improved export credit insurance.

Article taken from BBC – http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8450434.stm