Manufacturing in China

Observation Room - Is China Losing Its Population Card?

Observation Room – Is China Losing Its Population Card?

China’s growing concern over low birth rates and an aging population have once again been enhanced by the latest numbers for 2021 released just recently by the National Bureau of Statistics of China(NBSC). The birthrate fell to 0.752%, the lowest point since 1949 when the PRC was founded[i], which has had analysts worried about Beijing’s

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It's All about Guanxi: Chinese Business Culture Takeaways

It’s All about Guanxi: Chinese Business Culture Takeaways

Another cultural aspect in Chinese society that is as major as our the “Face” concept indicated in our last CNY 2022 Special, is the “relationship” (关系, guanxi). In fact, the phrase guanxi is way beyond a cultural nuance now, but a concept commonly seen and acknowledge even on academic materials about international business, as China

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