Chinese Opportunity for Outhound Investment？

Global economic crisis shrinks the world wealth,as well as the enterprises value.Many companies in foreign lands are facing a tough time China,with the world No.1 foreign exchange reserve, US$1953.74 billion up to March,2009,according to State Administration of Foreign Exchange of China,is claimed to possess strong outbound investment capacity in the crisis.     

Global Champions in Waiting ——Prospects and challenges of Chinese Automobile firms M＆A activities on the world stage

In recent years, Chinese companies have accelerated their global activities in line with China＇s ascent as a major economic power. While some Chinesecompanies globalize organically, many others have pursued mergers and acquisitions （M＆A） to accelerate their global presence. High-profile deals such the SAIC＇s 50.6% acquisition of Korea＇s Ssangyong in 2004, Nanjing Auto Group purchased British auto company MG in 2006, and more recent Geely Automobile Holdings acquire＇ Australia＇s Drivetrain Systems Interna- tional, or DSI, the world＇s second largest auto transmission supplier in 2009, have introduced the world to a new generation of Chinese companies with aspirations to be global competitors. Under the circumstance of global financial crisis, as vehicles sales slump and companies burn through cash, many players in automobile industry are confronting cost pressure and tighter access to credit. As a result, many distressed assets are potentially up for sale. This also means opportunities for Chinese automobile players with international expansion to jump onto the global stage.     

Shanghai Highlight： World Expo

The proposals regarding the Shanghai Expo attracted the World Expo committee great concern. During the two sessions, the Shanghai World Expo organizer promised that they will play more active role in holding the expo.Though the world is suffering the global crisis, the organizer believed that this is a rare opportunity and as the World Expo 2010 to be held in Shanghai could help China overcome economic difficulties and lift the world out of the crisis shadow.     

Global Report on International Trade and Investment Risk Indexes of 100 Countries [ITIRI 2006]

After reaching a peak in 2004,now the world economic growth is turning to a downward process of 8-year-round economic cycle in which the rate of growth appears to slow down distinctly. Hence the global international trade and investment risks will also generate new changes.     

＂Consumption Degrading＂ Era,Really Coming？

Global financial crisis sourced in subloan crisis in USA leads to the downturn in world economy, and also has a deep impact on people＇s hie and consumption, no matter where they are. There is no doubt that the crisis is changing people＇s idea and attitude of consuming. This article will have an insight in the change of consuming behaviors and how the companies should respond to the changes.     

Luxury Loves China

With luxury sales in the rest of the world either shrinking or growing more slowly, it showcased a completely different scene in China. Although not immune to the global economic crisis, the country has suffered far less than others, and the continued health of China＇s luxury market makes it an oasis of hope and possibility in a recession-battered world.     

Hopes in the Crisis ——Chinese Automobile Market in the World Automanufacturing Industry Shuffle

The economic crisis spread rapidly around the world, making automobile industry one of the victims who are shocked hardest, leading to an industrial shuffle in global automobile industry. USA, EU and Japan, the traditional top three leading countries in global auto- mobile industry, could not have their lucks to escape from the crisis. The weak global automobile market forces these transnational auto companies to be more cautious about the future than ever. As reflected in the latest performance reports, though governments took measures to maintain the market, the sharp decline in global automobile sales volume continued in the first quarter. Automobile market bottomed out in the second quarter. US auto industry was affected the most, with two out of the top three manufacturers getting bankrupt and regrouped. In the first half, auto sales volume in USA was 4.80 million, down by 35.1% from that of the same period in 2008. The third largest automobile market in the world, Japan had a sales volume of 2.18 million, down by 21.5% with the same comparison.     

Light Up the Light Industry

Based on small consumer goods production, light industry is usually less capital-intensive than heavy industry, and is more consumer-oriented than business-oriented, as most light industry products are produced for end users rather than as intermediates for use by other industries. When Katie Melua sang the fact that ＂There are nine million bicycles in Beijing.＂ in her song, she also released a clue of China as a manufacturing and consumption giant in light industry. China, boasting the fame of global workshop, supplies a large proportion of light manufactured products to the world. However, since last September, China＇s light industry products export fell sharply. Chinese enterprises in the field are suffering a tough period due to the global economic crisis.     

Proactive Continue,More Weight on Tax Reduction

In battling against the current global economic crisis, fiscal and taxation policies, as the most important means to intervene the economy, has been the major approach for the governments throughout the world to offset impact of the crisis.China, as the economy with the fastest growth, has received much attention, and China's fiscal and taxation policies which contributed much to the strong economic recovery,in particular, is the very concern of the public.So, what is the trend of the fiscal and taxation policies during 2010?     

G20 Financial Officials Discuss Global Economy in Busan

In September 2009 the Group of Twenty （G20） took over the Group of Eight （G8） as a premier forum ,for international economic cooperation at the Pittsburgh Summit. The first achievement of the new forum, a “Framework for Strong, Sustainable, and Balanced Growth＂, would be tested and improved in the G20 meetings in June 2010. Considering the escalating debt crisis in the euro zone since this spring and calls for getting rid of the weaknesses of the financial regulatory system, the G20 assumed the responsibility to formulate global strategies to keep economic recovery on track and lead world economies and financial systems to get away from the mess in a more prudential and skillful way.     

Winning in Global Value Chain：A Shifting Strategy of Chinese Companies

With the trend of globalization, no country will be spared and immune to what is happening on the global stage. Faced with the current global financial crisis and subsequent economic recession, to every corner of the world, what measures should be taken are heatedly discussed on the level of international community, country and company. On the level of international community, two words on every leader＇s lips are coordination and cooperation; most of them have realized no country can take on the crisis alone. On the level of sovereign country,     

Pittsburgh G20 Meet Must Vow to Keep the Torch of Global Recovery Burning

World leaders must be congratulated for successfully coming together to combat the biggest global economic crisis in generations. Six months after leaders from the world＇s leading economies joined hands at the G20 meeting in London, the global economy is slowly but certainly emerging from the slump, led by the resurgent economies of Asia.     

Global Chamions in Wating——Prospects and challenges of Chinese Automobile firms M&A activities on the world stage

In recent years,Chinese companies have accelerated their global activities in line with China's ascent as a major economic power.While some Chinese companies globalize organically,many others have pursued mergers and acquisitions (M&A) to accelerate their global presence.High-profile deals such the SAIC's 50.6% acquisition of Korea's Ssangyong in 2004,Nanjing Auto Group purchased British auto company MG in 2006,and more recent Geely Automobile Holdings acquire' Australia's Drivetrain Systems International,or DSI,the world's second largest auto transmission supplier in 2009,have introduced the world to a new generation of Chinese companies with aspirations to be global competitors.     

Status Quo and Measures for the Development of Bilateral Trade Between China and France

In today's world economy, France is one of the major developed countries, the sixth-largest economy, the fifth trading nation, the fourth foreign aid-giving country and the first tourist destination in the world.Meanwhile, France is the fourth largest trading partner, the third investment source and the second 1 technology supplier in Europe.In global political situation, France is one of the five permanent members of UN Security Council, an important player in promoting world peace and stability, while France also has an important role and rights of speak in the European Union.Therefore, it is of great meaning and necessary for China to strengthen economic and trade cooperation with France, especially when facing the financial crisis and weak global economy.     

Three Driving Forces of Labor Market

The sub prime in Wall Street of USA finally turned into global economic crisis. China, as the second largest export country in the world, caught in the biting cold economic storm. As the declining export directly plays on the weakness of Chinese economy, shrinking domestic demand and weak export market worsens the employment situation in China. It seems that the employ- ment and re-employment have become the top task for Chinese government. The reason why the economic crisis has such a large influence on Chinese job market may be related to the three problems come up in the development of Chinese economic development.     

China's Stock Market Wave

The annual meeting of the World Economy Forum was held in Davos,a little town in Switzerland,on January 23rd to the 27th this year,with the theme"the Power of Collaborative Innovation",over 2500 celebrates from the political and economic circles of more than 80 countries and regions gathered together to talk about the fu- ture of the global economy in 2008.A Forum for the problems and challenges that face the whole world,some of the keywords which drew attention during the event were:the U.S.subprime mortgage crisis,soaring energy prices, the economic slowdown in the U.S.,ermerging economic bodies,authority funds and the general unpredictable nature of the global economy.     

China, An Engine for Global Growth in 2009

The world economy is mired in the severest financial crisis since the Great Depression in 2008. Due to the uncertainty of the global economy situation, UN released the World Economic Situation and Prospects 2009 on January 16, 2009, in Beijing. World Economic Situation and Prospects （WESP） is a joint product of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs,     

SMES＇FINANCING,Hard Nut to Be Cracked？

Small and medium-sized enterprises （SMEs） are a crucial driving force for innovation, employment and development and the engines of growth in an economy. But as the sector is characterized by information asymmetries and high processing costs, banks are reluetam to lend to SMEs, which have long faced difficulties in financing. Amid capital depletion, risk aversion and credit contraction in the current global economic crisis, the issue of financing for SMEs is a pressing issue for all natlons, which is not exceptional to China.     

China''''s Stock Market Wave

The annual meeting of the World Economy Forum was held in Davos,a little town in Switzerland,on January 23rd to the 27th this year,with the theme"the Power fo Collaborative Innovation",over 2500 celebrates from ture political and cconomic circles of more than 80 countries and challengred logether to talk about the future of the global economy in 2008,A Forum for the problems and challenges that face whole world,some of the keywords which drew attention during the event were:the U.S.subprime mortgage crisis,soaring energy prices,the economic slowdown in the U.S.ermerging economic bodies,authority funds and the general unpredictable nature of the global economy.     

What＇s Behind the Hype of Decoupling？

The meaning of decoupling “You either believe in decoupling or globalization—but not both”, said Stephen Roach, an economist at Morgan Stanley. AND “you can have both decou-pling and globalization at the same time”, said an article in The Economist. How diffusing about the meaning of decoupling especially in the context of international finance crisis in which the developed countries can＇t hold the world together while the developing riecountries play a more increasing role in the arena of international affairs! We can get a clearer look if we go back to see what happened in the past thirty years. The global economic landscape has shifted dramatically since the mid-1980s. There are two phenomena which attracted our attention. First, with the cost-downing and demand-increasing, there has been a rapid increase in interna-tional trade and financial linkages across national countries. Second, emerging economies have increasingly become major players in the world and they now account for about a quarter of world economic output every year and a more major driver of global growth due to industrial economies＇ slowing economic development.