In just a few days I, along with EDF+Business’ Xixi Chen, will be traveling across China to talk with companies and students about corporate energy management. The trip comes one week after China’s “Golden Week”—the…
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China to issue first dollar bonds since 2004, in Hong Kong
China’s Ministry of Finance has revealed plans to sell US … Chinese corporates have undertaken business expansion globally, which require dollar-denominated funding in recent years. But companies which choose to raise funds through the Asian…
BMW eyes China joint venture with Great Wall: source
“Our business development with the joint venture BMW Brilliance Automotive will continue as planned, and we will carry on to invest and develop our joint venture.” A Great Wall official declined to comment. BMW’s China…
China’s Communist Party makes final preparations for key congress
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Communist Party opened a meeting on Wednesday to make final preparations for a key party congress later this month, state media said, a five-yearly event where President Xi Jinping is expected…
Hong Kong regulator expands IPO probe to 15 banks and securities firms
UBS and Standard Chartered are being sued by the SFC for their roles in the 2009 IPO offering of China Forestry Holdings, which was suspended in 2011 and is being liquidated. Standard Chartered closed its…
Chinese youngsters’ favorite streaming site Bilibili plans for IPO
Baidu’s iQIYI, often known as the “Netflix of China”, is also reportedly filling for an IPO in the U.S., according to Bloomberg. No major video streaming sites in China have turned a profit yet. When…
Bonpoint CEO Marie-Sabine Leclercq on How a Small Luxury Brand Makes It in China
When Bonpoint CEO Marie-Sabine Leclercq visits China on behalf of the company—there are 16 of the French luxury childrenswear shops on the mainland—she notices one key difference in the women there compared with women in…
Founder of China micro-lender set to become billionaire with IPO
Surging valuations for Chinese fintech startups are about to turn micro-lending tycoon Min Luo into the country’s latest IPO billionaire. Luo, 34, founder and chief executive officer of online loan provider Qudian, owns about a…
How the Warriors used China trip to grow business opportunities
SHANGHAI – The towering buildings sprang upward under a sea of blue sky in all directions. As Warriors chief marketing officer Chip Bowers sat in the restaurant of the team’s five-star hotel, he only needed…
China’s currency flexes its muscles, pressuring the dollar
The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) was likely attempting to provide “overriding stability” ahead of the 19th Community Party Congress on Oct. 18, one market watcher said PBOC governor Zhou Xiaochuan told financial magazine Caijing…
China’s economic achievements since 18th CPC national congress
China’s 2016 GDP of $11.2 trillion accounted for 14.8 percent … Thanks to reforms to simplify business registration and streamline approvals, the number of new companies registered in 2014-2016 totaled 13.62 million, an annual increase…
Soon, another IPO billionaire in China
Founder of online lender worth at least US$1.2b after US listing BEIJING • Surging valuations for Chinese fintech start-ups are about to turn micro-lending tycoon Min Luo into the country’s latest IPO billionaire. Mr Luo,…
World’s Most Powerful National Brands: Canada Rises To #7
China’s growth on the brand metric has been meteoric. The value of its brand grew 44 per cent in a year, to US$10.2 trillion, compared to just two-per-cent growth for the U.S. brand. Watch: Canada…
