Cities are like brands – they need to have a plan, market, grow, and innovate. Cities can’t just plan and grow and expect investment, residents and tourists to appear. Just getting by can work for some cities such as Paris, Rome or Venice or other world-renown tourist cities – if that is the one of […]
Android phones to see big growth in 2011 in China
Android is going to have a big year in China and it will occur due to the market size, the number of manufacturers, phone cost and growing community. China is a big market for mobile phones – about 840 million subscribers and the phone is an all round device for many Chinese who use the […]
让å弹飞 Let the Bullets Fly took 60 million yuan
让å弹飞 Let the Bullets Fly a period movie starring Yun-Fat Chow, Carina Lau, Xiaogang Feng, You Ge and other well known Chinese Actors opened last week. The movie is a set in the 1920’s about a bandit and the gentry (good guy and bad guy film where the lines blur between who is bad and […]
Shanghai 2014: J Hotel – the highest Hotel in Shanghai
5 star hotels in Shanghai are not in short supply with many local and international hotel brands represented on both sides of the Huangpu River. Today, with interest I read that Jin Jiang Hotel group has taken the lease for the 84th-110th floors of the new mega-tall Shanghai Tower. The Shanghai tower will be one […]
China’s 12th 5 Year explained
Yesterday I stumbled across this document - China’s 12th Five-Year Plan: How it actually works and what’s in store for the next five years [PDF] by APCOworldwide. It is probably the best document I have found that describes not only the process of the China’s 5 year plans but also gives us some insight into what the Central Government […]