China to Invest Heavily on Rural Roads

China will input RMB100 billion to upgrade its roads linking counties and villages across the country during the period of 11th Five-Year Plan. As learned from the Nation Development and Reform Commission, by 2010, all villages in east and central China and all towns in west China will be connected by pitch roads. Surveying and planning will be started at the second half of this year to make the construction at early 2006 possible. Most counties and villages have pitch roads throughout the country after five years' efforts. Yet there are 145 towns and 50,124 villages which do not have.     

China to Invest RMB58 Billion on Farmland Irrigation Infrastructure

From September, 2003 to May, 2004, the Chinese government invested RMB58 billion (US$7 billion) on national farmland irrigation infrastructure construction, said a senior official with the Ministry of Water Resources.     

When Will the New Campaign to Invest in China Come?

-n ] 999, China's attraction of f'oreign capital-declined fully for the tlrst time. Recently, LiZhengping, a reporter from the Economic DailyOffice, and Ma Yu, a vice research fellow tyomthe Institute of International Trade and EconomicCooperation under the Minister of Foreign Tradeand Economic Cooperation (Moftec), bothapproached this subject.What dose the decline in foreign investmentmean to China?Reporters in 1999, China's utilization offoreign capital declined fully and sharply. it…     

China to Invest RMB58 Billion on Farmland Ir- rigation Infrastructure

From September, 2003 to May, 2004, the Chinese government invested RMB58 billion (US$7 billion) on national farmland irrigation infrastructure construction, said a senior official with the Ministry of Water Resources. Zhai Haohui, Vice-Minister of Water Resources, told a national farmland irrigation conference in Nanchang that the Chinese government is increasing its investment in this area year by year.     

China Mobile and AT＆T to launch OPhone smartphones

UK Regulatory Authorities might stop the deal between Orange and T-Mobile going ahead because of the dominance it would give the two firms in the mobile phone market. According to a report in the Guardian, which cites no sources, the government is working with five of the UK＇s main wireless network providers to impose limits on the amount of spectrum each operator can     

China＇s Service Trade to Reach US$400 bin by 2010

China＇s service sector aims to be turning over US5400 billion worth of business a year by 2010, according to proposals put forward by theState Council, China＇s cabinet.     

Learning to do Business in China: The Evolution of BAT's Cigarette Distribution Network, 1902–41

This article traces the development of BAT's cigarette distribution network in China. It demonstrates that BAT utilised the connections that expatriate managing agencies had developed with Chinese merchants in the treaty port economy of Shangai during the late nineteenth century, and shows how these linkages were subsequently developed into a distribution network to serve the whole of China. The keys to the success of BAT's selling organisation in China lay in two main areas of competence: first, the company's ability to develop accounting and credit control systems that both monitored its cigarettes and minimised the risk of bad debts; and, secondly, in its ability to foster competition within its own sales teams by creating parallel distribution mechanisms throughout much of China, in particular through the creation of a joint venture with the Chinese-run Wing Tai Vo Corporation. By the 1930s BAT's products were widely available in China, despite the upheavals that acted to undermine the development of a national market there.