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Jul 2011

Iliana Torres

Global Sourcing, Logistics, Opportunities

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Yibin Port Impresses

CHENGDU - The Sichuan Yibin Port Economic Development Zone Industry Cooperation Fair was held in Yibin, Southwest China's Sichuan province, on Saturday, drawing 44 firms, chambers of commerce and international organizations from Japan, South Korea and other parts of China. Some of them are Fortune 500 firms. They compared notes on development of the Yibin Port Economic Development Zone and sought business opportunities there. On Friday afternoon, representatives of the...

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Jul 2011

Iliana Torres

Global Sourcing, Logistics

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Inside View on China’s Logistics

China's expenditures on logistical services totaled 3.7 trillion yuan ($570 billion) in the first half of 2011, an increase of 18.5 percent year-on-year, statistics showed. The spending accounted for 18 percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP), the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing and the China Logistics Information Center said in a report published on their websites. The report attributed the growing spending to rising costs for raw m...

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Jul 2011

Iliana Torres

Logistics, Opportunities

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West China’s Economy to Grow 13%

China's first evaluative report on economic quality in the western region predicted that the region's economy will grow by 13 percent, higher than the nation's average. The report was published during the Western Region Economic Development Forum held in Beijing on Sunday. As a part of an annual research report on economic development in the western regions of China, the Western Blue Book 2011 has reviewed and analyzed economic growth in western areas since the implementation of...

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Jul 2011

Iliana Torres

Global Sourcing, Logistics, Quality Control

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Trade Surplus Rises in Coming Months

China's monthly surplus is expected to "widen" in the coming months though export growth will "decelerate", probably causing some factories to close, said the Ministry of Commerce on Thursday. As domestic and global business conditions deteriorate, some manufacturers and exporters might struggle in the months ahead, with even some going bankrupt, said Zhang Ji, director-general of the ministry's department of mechanical, electronic and high-technology industries. Accord...

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Jun 2011

Iliana Torres

Global Sourcing, Logistics

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The Giant China

As we look a little bit closer to what is going on around the globe, the news, we realize that geopolitics and geo strategy (study of each State & political actor’s on the international scene) form one body. The correlation between both terms includes not only politics but a very important economic aspect that is gaining the upper hand. Experts of the subject have declared in the past that the hegemony of a country depended on just few fundamentals criteria. By analyzing our environme...

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Jun 2011

Iliana Torres

Global Sourcing, Logistics

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New Trade Zone in Hwanggumpyong

Sharp-eyed viewers of CCTV may have noticed the recent adverts promoting the port of Dandong on China’s border with North Korea as a new northeastern gateway to global markets. That campaign goes hand-in-hand with the recent decision to set up a free trade zone on North Korea’s Hwanggumpyong Island, an undeveloped island adjacent to Dandong, where a tax-free zone of 11 square kilometers will be set up. China has reportedly signed a 50 year lease agreement to develop the island. ...

29

Jun 2011

Iliana Torres

Global Sourcing, Logistics

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China & Germany Target Doubling Trade

China and Germany signed deals worth more than $15 billion on Tuesday as the leaders of the world's top two exporters set a target of doubling their annual trade by 2015. Chinese and German leaders are meeting for trade talks in the German capital Berlin, with the Chinese seeking new investment by hi-tech companies. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrived on Monday evening on the final leg of his European tour, and is meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Germany is by far China's big...

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Jun 2011

Iliana Torres

Quality Control, Safety and Compliance

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China Is Going Green!

China will adhere to the road of green industrialization characterized by higher science, better economic efficiency, low consumption of resources, less pollution and full use of labor advantages, said China's Minister of Industry and Information Technology Miao Xu Tuesday here. Addressing the Ministerial Meeting on Energy and Green Industry, the minister stressed that to reach the goal of green industrial development, China will mainly accelerate the industrialization process by ad...

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May 2011

Iliana Torres

Opportunities, Quality Control, Quality Management

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China in Numbers

Reflections after the 2010 Population Census By Angel Fernández de Castro de Léon. Just few days ago the National Bureau of Statistics of China released very interesting information regarding to the most recent 2010 National Population Census. Considering that this comes once every decade, and that we are considering not just the most populous nation over the globe, but the second largest economy of the world, we should perhaps take a little interest… C...

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May 2011

Iliana Torres

Global Sourcing, Logistics

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Canton Fair 2011

In the Import/Export (trade) industry, annual Trade Fairs visits are nearly inevitable. First faces and mostly place of massive exchanges between Buyers and Manufacturers, Trade Fairs are frequent and diversified by categories. Widely in the season of multiple Trade Fair Shows, we have decided to consecrate the theme of this article to one of the Trade Fairs easily recognized as the largest Trade Fair Show in China. The 109th Canton fair held in South China’s Guangdo...

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