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  • German business expects tough 2020

    Representatives for the German industry are expecting 2020 to continue to be a difficult year after the economy suffered in 2019 due to trade disputes and political uncertainty.

    January08,2020


  • Heilongjiang Business Environment Assessment Report (2020)

    Located in the northeast of the country, Heilongjiang is the northernmost and easternmost province of the country. The province is bordered by Jilin to the south and Inner Mongolia to the west. It also shares a border with Russia to the north and east. The capital and the largest city of the province is Harbin. Among Chinese provincial-level administrative divisions, Heilongjiang is the sixth-largest by total area and the 15th-most populous.

    June03,2021


  • Guangdong Business Environment Assessment Report (2020)

    Guangdong is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 113.46 million across a total area of about 179,800 km², Guangdong is the most populous province of China and the 15th-largest by area. Its economy is larger than that of any other province in the nation and the 4th largest sub-national economy in the world with GDP of 1.66 trillion USD in 2019. The Pearl River Delta Economic Zone, a Chinese megalopolis, is a core for high technology, manufacturing and foreign trade. Located in this zone are two of the four top Chinese cities and the top two Chinese prefecture-level cities by GDP; Guangzhou, the capital of the province, and Shenzhen, the first special economic zone in the country. These two are among the most populous and important cities in China, and have now become two of the world's most populous megacities.

    April22,2021


  • Liaoning Business Environment Assessment Report (2020)

    As China's important base for heavy industry, education and agriculture, Liaoning boasts a relatively complete range of industrial categories, which is among China's first coastal provinces to open door to the outside world and open ports in modern times. In 2019, Laioning Province formulated the General Plan for the Building of the “Belt and Road” Comprehensive Pilot Zone in Liaoning, established the China-Central and Eastern Europe "16+1" Economic and Trade Cooperation Demonstration Zone, and took over Chinese president province of the China-CEEC Association of Provincial Governors 2019.

    March09,2021


  • Anhui Business Environment Assessment Report (2020)

    Located in the hinterland of the Yangtze River Delta, a place with the most dynamic economy in China, Anhui links the east China with the west China and connects the south China with the north China, playing a very important role in the country’s regional economic structure.

    February05,2021


  • Hainan Business Environment Assessment Report (2020)

    Boasted a prime location, Hainan abounds with rich resource reserves. Hainan is blessed with the best ecological environment nationwide as a national ecological civilization pilot zone. It is also China's largest special economic zone and pilot free trade zone (port) and also the country's one and only province-wide international tourism island and international consumption center.

    October29,2020


  • Chongqing Business Environment Assessment Report (2020)

    Chongqing abuts with Hubei and Hunan to the east, Guizhou to the south, Sichuan to the west, and Shaanxi to the north. It is the largest economic center at the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, an industrial and commercial town, and a land and water transportation hub in the southwest.

    March10,2021


  • Hubei Business Environment Assessment Report (2020)

    Hubei is the largest comprehensive transportation and communication hub in central China and is known as "China overpass". Hubei is located in the subtropics, with sufficient light energy, abundant heat and precipitation, and rainfall synchronizing with the hot season. Hubei has jurisdiction over 12 prefecture-level cities, three provincial-level cities, one autonomous prefecture and one forest area.

    December25,2020


  • Qinghai Business Environment Assessment Report (2020)

    Qinghai is located in the western part of China, northeastern part of the Tibetan Plateau (also known as the “roof of the world”). As the source of the Yangtze River, the Yellow River and the Lancang River, Qinghai is also reputed as the “source of three rivers”, and “China’s water tower”. Qinghai province has an extremely important ecological status. In recent years, relying on its advantageous conditions in ecological resource, climate and geography and culture, Qinghai province has been active in developing oil, power generating, non-ferrous metals, saline chemical, and other pillar industries. Now, Qinghai’s competitive industries include hydropower resource development, saltwater lake resource development, oil and natural gas resource development, metal and non-metal resource development, etc.

    January21,2021


  • Fujian Business Environment Assessment Report (2020)

    Fujian has the second longest coastline in China, with 3,751.5 kilometers of land coastline. Via Fujian, South Asia, West Asia, and East Africa can be reached by sea. Fujian is the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road and Zheng He's voyages to the west, as well as a maritime trading hub.

    January27,2021


  • Xinjiang Business Environment Assessment Report (2020)

    Xinjiang is a key region for the Great Western Development Strategy’s implement, an important gateway for China to open up in the west and an important national energy base and transportation corridor. The region has abundant oil and gas resources, which accounts for near one third of China’s onshore reserve. It has China’s 100-million-ton oil and gas field and strategic oil and gas reserve base, and Karamay has the largest oilfield in the west of China.

    March11,2021


  • Hebei Business Environment Assessment Report (2020)

    As a passage connecting northeast provinces and cities and northwest China to the sea in the north, Hebei Province serves as a transfer station facilitating commodity circulation in north China, northwest China and northeast China, and a key region of development and opening up for China's regional development strategy.

    January27,2021


  • Hunan Business Environment Assessment Report (2020)

    Hunan Province, called Xiang for short, lies in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in central China. Most part of the province is located to the south of the Dongting Lake, hence the name of Hunan which means "south of the lake". Changsha is its capital city.

    June01,2021


  • Zhejiang Business Environment Assessment Report (2020)

    Zhejiang Province, referred to as "Zhe", with Hangzhou as its capital city, is located in the southern wing of the Yangtze River Delta along China's southeast coast. Zhejiang boasts the advantage of opening up to the outside world and has set up the Zhejiang Pilot Free Trade Zone (FTZ).

    February03,2021


  • Shanxi Business Environment Assessment Report (2020)

    Shanxi Province, abbreviated as “Jin”, with Taiyuan as its capital city, is located to the west of Taihang Mountain. Situated in the Central Plains region, Shanxi has an advantageous geographical location.

    February05,2021


  • Shaanxi Business Environment Assessment Report (2020)

    From the ancient Silk Road to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Shaanxi in northwest China has always been an important hub. Shaanxi Province achieved a GDP of 2,579.32 billion yuan in 2019, an increase of 6 percent over the previous year.

    February05,2021


  • Ningxia Business Environment Assessment Report (2020)

    Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, called Ning for short, was established in October 1958. As one of the five autonomous regions for ethnic groups in China, Ningxia is the only Hui autonomous region of provincial level. Ningxia is the first inland province to pilot opening up to the outside as a whole and a hub for China's Westward Opening-up Strategy.

    June04,2021


  • Shandong Business Environment Assessment Report (2020)

    Located in China's eastern coast, Shandong Province borders Hebei, Henan, Anhui, and Jiangsu from north to south, covering a total landmass of 157,100 square kilometers. Shandong Province has 1,824 township-level divisions of 137 county-level divisions of 16 prefecture-level cities. As of the end of 2019, the province had a permanent resident population of 100.70 million. Its GDP in 2019 registered 7.1 trillion yuan.

    February18,2021


  • Jiangxi Business Environment Assessment Report (2020)

    Belonging to the mid-subtropical zone, Jiangxi is characterized by monsoon climate with four distinct seasons. With an area of 166,900 square kilometers and a total population of over 45.92 million, it has jurisdiction over 11 cities with subordinate districts and 100 counties (cities and districts). Jiangxi Province boasts rich resources and a good ecology, and it is also home to Poyang Lake, the country's largest freshwater lake.

    March29,2021


  • Jiangsu Business Environment Assessment Report (2020)

    Jiangsu Province is a province that is included in three major state strategies, namely the B&R Initiative, the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta. It has a high degree of economic openness, urbanization and social civilization.

    March29,2021


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