Disclosed private equity investment in China in August was 410 million U.S. dollars, down almost 70 percent month-on-month, a consultant's report said on Saturday. There were only three private equity investments in August, all into expanding or profit-making entities, according to the report from China Venture Investment Consulting Group. A weak ...
Chinese economy just slows down in some separate aspects, and Caterpillar doesn't get affected, said CEO of Caterpillar Inc. James Owens recently, according to International Finance News. The company will invest 20 million USD to establish a multifunctional research and development center in Wuxi, east China's Jiangsu Province, accroding to James Owen...
China's individual business has undergone steady growth in recent years. By the end of June in 2008, the individual business households registered in the industry and commerce administration authorities reached 27.59 million, 176,000 households more than the number by the end of 2007, according to State Administration for Industry & Commerce. Meanwhil...
More than 40 percent of privately owned mainland businesses plan to go overseas in the next three years, according to an HSBC survey. Of the 902 privately owned companies surveyed by HSBC and Fudan University in Shanghai, 43 percent said they were keen to expand overseas. The respondents are based mainly in the Yangtze River and Pearl River deltas. ...
The Mexican government has voluntarily halted shipments of processed beef and poultry to the United States after U.S. inspectors found inadequate sanitation and recordkeeping during an audit between June 24 and July 31. According to an Associated Press news report, Mexico's voluntary suspension started Aug. 29. A U.S. Department of Agriculture off...
German luxury carmaker BMW's joint venture with Brilliance China Auto is expected to build a second plant in the Liaoning capital to meet growing demand in the world's second biggest vehicle market, a government official said. Liu Guoqiang, vice-governor of Liaoning, said yesterday at a ceremony marking the joint venture's fifth anniversary that the ne...
US entrepreneur Tom Watson doesn't regret not investing in China over the past three decades. Time was not on our side then, said Watson, whose company sells air filtration systems. But we can catch up now. Watson is in China with a US delegation seeking clean energy and environmental investment opportunities in China and India. US Assistant Secretary ...
Imports were down by as much as 13 percent through the first seven months of the year at the five top West Coast ports, compared with the same period last year, The Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday. The paper listed the ports as Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle and Tacoma, Washington. The number of empty containers shipped back to ...
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