US Downgrade Hits Financial Markets

The United States has lost its top AAA credit rating for the first time On August 5, in a move that could severely undermine the recovery of the world's largest economy and prompt further calamitous falls on world stock markets in the following week. Emerging markets stocks and currencies plummeted on August 8,after     

Downgrade of U.S.Credit Rating Rattled Global Market

The Standard & Poor's rating agency announced on August 5 that it has downgraded the U.S.credit rating to AA+ from its top rank of AAA for first time.In response to S&P's move,Asian and Oceania markets saw intense volatility on August 8 as major stock markets in Australia, New Zealand,Japan,South Korea,Singapore, Mainland China,Taiwan and Hong Kong en-     

WTO Analysis:World Trade Prospects for 2008

Recent developments in early 2008 cloud the near-term pros- cts for the world economy. mong these developments are widely held expectations of recessionary tendencies in the United States,weaker demand growth in both Europe and Japan, a rise in inflation and depressed global stock markets.     

英文摘要

Top 100 Chinese Foreign Trade Cities The global economy dwindled again in 2011. The debt crisis in the euro zone kept spreading. Thanks to the economic stimulus taken in 2009, some countries have been trying their best to tackle the fluidity surplus. The emerging markets were also troubled. BRICs,     

Trade Imbalance,Conflict and Prospect

From the standpoint of USA, as one of the largest exporters of low-cost labor-intensive goods, China presents some- what of a dilemma to the US in terms of its potential for causing material injury to US domestic markets. As a response, the US has appealed to trade remedy measures such as the imposition of anti-dumping duties,     

China''''s Auto Exports Soar: Independent Brands Get Heated in the Overseas Market

In recent years,Chinese independent auto manufacturers have demonstrated their strong competitive ability in overseas markets, and attracted people's attention as the export market has heated up. According to the most recent figures, Chinese auto exports have increased continuously over the last three years, especially in 2006 as the export numer rose to 343,500 increasing by 97.2 percent when compared with the same period last year, and the export value was 3.1 billion US dollars, an increase of 97.8 percent, over the previous year.     

China Allows Residents to invest Forex into Overseas Stock Markets

China has lifted the ban on residents and organizations investing their foreign exchange savings in overseas stock markets, in a latest move to ease the pressure produced by its swelling foreign exchange reserves.     

Mainland Companies Take Lead in HK Stock Market

Looking back to the performance of global stock markets in 2006, it is hard to deny Hong Kong＇s position of the most attractive to global investors with newly listed Chinese mainland companies as the shining gold mines waiting to be explored.     

Looking Back on the Stock Market

Looking back at the ups and downs of China's stock market in 2007,it is clear that it has developed far beyond people's expectation. While the stock index constantly reaches new highs and the size of the market becomes larger and larger, the Chinese financial market has also reintegrated. A multi-level revolution occurred in 2007, involving changes in stock structure, the variety of core composition, chip cost of the capital market, investor makeup, as well as trade rules and operational methods.     

Reforms on SOEs Can Be Done in a Number of Ways

China is actively exploring new ways to utilize foreign capitals including encouraging international merger, the establishment of enterprise investment foundation, risk investments, stock markets and franchising in order to speed up the process of reforms on the state owned enterprises (SOEs), and to promote the development of medium and small enterprises through participating in global production.     

Some Thoughts on Effects of Fluctuation of Stock and Real Estate Prices on Consumer Expenditure

With the rapid development of China' s financial markets,stocks and real estate are becoming one of the assets that canexert remarkable influence on consumer behavior. Since theearly 1990s, sharp rises in stock market value in some Europeanand North Ameri…     

Comparison of Political System and Motions between China and US

March is what we called ＂Political Month＂, since ＂Two Sessions＂ will open as scheduled. On March 5, the western presses give great concern to its opening as usual, and even world stock markets rise amid China stimulus hopes.     

Textile Industry: Stimulus Plan Laid out as It Suffers

China's commerce ministry has said textile export growth is poised to slow down further this year and indicated that it does not plan to go back to the quota system in textile trade. The growth rate in China's textile exports will continue decreasing this year and there will be no "big increases" in exports to the US and the EU markets although quota restrictions on exports to the two markets have been eliminated from the beginning of this year,the ministry said in a statement on its website.     

China's Soybean Imports Will Be Decreased 2009

In September 2008, Lehman Brothers＇ bankruptcy set off a global financial ＂tsunami＂, with the five major U.S. investment banks fell one after another： Bear .Stearns dosed down as early as in March, Lehman＇s bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch being acquired, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley restructuring of commercial banks; the process of United States＇ ＂nationalization＂ was forced to speed up, with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the American International Group （AIG） being taken over by the government; bank insolvency and reorganization were in gradual escalation, with Washington Mutual Bank de- claring bankruptcy and Wells Fargo purchasing Wachovia; starting in October, for more than a month＇s time, global stock market encountered a rare crash, with the major stock indexes such as Dow Jones, Nikkei and European indexes fell more than 20%. The top three declines in the stock market of the year are Iceland, Russia and China, with a decline of 90%, 78% and 73% respectively. This kind of collapse aroused great turbulence in the world economy and had badly shaken the confidence of the market. Fear was filled everywhere.     

INTERNATIONAL MARKET EXPANSION

The China Technology I/E Corp.,as a main force in China's technologytrade,has carried out 2,600 import projects for technology andequipment worth a total of US＄60 billion for China's socialisteconomic construction.Since 1987,the corporation has activelyengaged in export business with the emphasis on technology trade,pursuing high-efficiency exports of hi-tech products and equipment.A development momentum with a high starting point and a rapidgrowth rate was achieved,even though the foreign and domesticmarkets were in depression in 1995.It achieved US＄480 millionworth of exports,earning US＄250 million.     

Franchising and Trademark Protection in China

With the downturn in the US economy well into its fourth year,American and Canadian franchisors are increasingly looking to international markets to secure new franchisees.As the worlds' second largest economy and with the largest middleclass anywhere,China is generating an increasing amount of attention.     

Franchising and Trademark Protection in China

With the downturn in the US economy well into its fourth year,American and Canadian franchisors are increasingly looking to international markets to secure new franchisees.As the worlds' second largest economy and with the largest middleclass anywhere,China is generating an increasing amount of attention.     

China's Taxtile Rose up 20% during 2005

China enjoyed an estimated 20% rise in revenue, prof its and exports in 2005 despite trade rows with the US and the EU, according to a report from the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Textiles. Sales revenue for the year to-taled RMB2 Trillion (US$250 Billion) as profits reached RMB 66 billion and exports were RMB 116 billion. The chamber said the increases had been driven by a ramp up in in-     

Credit Rating Downgrade,US Era Is Ending?

China should not only care about the safety of the dollar assets it holds,but also consider how to make preparations for its yuan to become an international reserve currency against a weakening US dollar. Surprisingly,the US debt default crisis this time did not end with the American two parties' consensus to raise debt ceiling, but usher in a shocking climax when the     

2008 East Asia Investment Forum Investment Cooperation in East Asia Facing Global Financial Fluctuations

2008 East Asia Investment Forum was held from May 10 to May 11 in Beijing with the theme of ＂Investment Cooperation in East Asia Facing Global Financial Fluctuations＂. It shed light on investment challenges and opportunities in Vietnam, Lao, Cambodia and Burma which are the four emerging markets in East Asia, and investment hotspots in Vietnam as well as the potential for investment cooperation in East Asia.