Thirty top websites and blogs for Chinese business news

Economy, trade, finance and culture news from China

From OnlineCollege.org, June 15, 2010

As China continues to emerge as a world power and significant force in key diplomatic issues and especially in influencing the international business community, those in the West need to keep up with all the developments coming from the East. Through blogs like these, you can learn about Chinese business history, the stock market and economy, language and cultural issues, green industry, and other topics that herald the new China. Whether or not you're earning an online college degree in business, take a look at these blogs that can teach you a lot about the future of our economy, as well as China's business news.


Economy and finance in China

China Economy: From the debt crisis affecting China's economy to major business mergers, get all the latest economic news from China when you read this blog.

China Economic Review: Editors' Journal: The editors for this economic journal blog about the Shanghai Composite Index and the overall health of China's economy.

China's Economy: Business Exchange's blog tracks China's economic growth here.

China Financial Markets: Learn more about Chinese currency, how Chinese policies affect the economy, and the Shanghai stock market.

China Stocks Blog: Recent posts on this blog covered public participation in the stock market, social policies, global climate change, and more issues affecting China stocks.

China Hearsay: Beijing-based Stan Abrams is a law professor who keeps up this blog to share news about China's economy and its business and legal industries.

China Stock Market Digest: Find news stories and videos about the auto industry, gaming industry, banking news, and stock market.

AsiaBizBlog: From strikes to the stock market, AsiaBizBlog is a worthwhile blog for catching up on China business headlines.

China Tells: View maps and charts tracking coal production, the stock market, and more.



General Business

From the auto industry to media and tech, check out all sorts of China business blogs here.

China Business Services: This blog reports on the middle class, strikes, capitalism, censorship, currency, market growth, and more.

China Venture News: Find stories and reports on China's financial front, focusing on venture capital and entrepreneurship.

Danwei: Keep up with the emerging media and advertising industries in China, as well as general business topics and economics news.

Cleaner, Greener China: Read about the green industry in China here.

All Roads Lead to China: This news blog reports heavily on Chinese business,
including trade, product safety, regulation, and Chinese business culture.

Managing the Dragon: From the auto industry to technology to globalization and the environment, Managing the Dragon covers "business in China — from the ground up."

China Esquire: This blog mashes up law, business and non-profit news from China.

China Real Time Report: The WSJ blogs about China's banks, real estate, taxes, markets, and more.

China Solved Blog: This blog has business solutions for international managers living and working in China.

Silicon Hutong: Get news relating to China's tech, media and communications industries.

View to China: Check out View to China for posts about innovation, development, taxes, marketing to Chinese customers, and trade.

The China Business Show: Find great stories about entrepreneurship, investing, marketing and even entertainment on this blog.

China Law Blog: The China Law Blog is actually a business law blog that's been covering the Chinese legal system's influence on business since 2006.

Chinalyst: Head to Chinalyst for a steady stream of English-language blog feeds and links on Chinese business and culture.

China Car Times: This blog covers the Chinese car industry, as well as related trade and environmental issues.



Business and Culture

If you're preparing to do business in the East, read these blogs for tips on negotiation, language, and more.

China Challenges: MBA Adjunct Lecturer Brian Schwartz shares commentary on 21st-century China and its innovative new economy.

ChinaHush: Read this blog for intriguing insight into China's economy and how its unique but developing culture influences business there.

Chinese Negotiation: Learn how to negotiate business deals in China when you read this blog.

The China Tracker: Forbes' China business blog has lots of helpful posts about doing business in China, recruiting Chinese customers, learning about new Chinese business ventures, and more.

Mark's China Blog: Mark blogs about nearly everything China but focuses on banking, politics, the labor market, and US/China relations.

Larry Salibra: Learn about American businesses in China, language trends in China, real estate, tech news, and more.

Online College list of 30 best China business blogs with hyperlinks

China calls Liu's Nobel Prize "obscene"

With the USA devolving into polarized paranoia and China still navel gazing and refusing to be a transparent, open society, it makes one hope that India can keep growing their economy to emerge as a 3rd, possibly less extreme global force. The wingnuts in China's politburo would have been wise to stay silent as democracy activist Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Like earlier democracy advocates such as Liang Qichao (February 23, 1873–January 19, 1929) and Liang Shuming (October 18, 1893—June 23, 1988) and other reformers through the decades, a forward-thinker like Liu Xiaobo can face tremendous persecution at home.


Liu Xiaobo arose as a strike leader during the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests in 1989. He was sentenced to 11 years' jail in December 2009, for writing a manifesto calling for free speech and multi-party elections.

The Nobel Committee praised him for his "long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights" and reiterated its belief in a "close connection between human rights and peace".

China, which had warned against giving the prize to Liu, summoned Norway's ambassador to protest.

"This is an obscenity against the peace prize," Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said in a statement.

"(Liu's) actions are diametrically opposed to the aims of the Nobel prize. Nobel's behest was that the Nobel Peace Prize be awarded to somebody who promoted peace between peoples, promoted international friendship and disarmament."

They really don't get it, yet...


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China attempting rapid growth path to sustainability

The Toronto Star today features an article by David Olive explaining how China is hoping to convert to sustainability without giving up on steady growth. I'll post that link when it's available

Yesterday, Olive wrote about China's unfinished economic revolution, so here's an excerpt:

This week’s revelation that China has overtaken Japan as the world’s second-largest economy was anti-climatic. With China growing at about 10 per cent a year for the past 30 years or so, and Japan entering its third decade of stagnant growth, the change in status quo has been long expected.

Still, the milestone sparked predictable hand-wringing in many quarters. Will it be 20 or just 10 years before the Middle Kingdom also surpasses the U.S. in size? Will Beijing eclipse Washington as the corporate colonizer of Latin America, the Middle East, Indonesia and other less-developed nations?

“While the 19th was the European century and the 20th the American century, the world seems to have entered what may become known as the Chinese era,” says Jean-Pierre Lehmann, professor of international political economy at IMD, the distinguished Swiss business school.

But one has to be careful in forecasting superpower status. In the 19th century, it seemed that Russia, Brazil and Argentina were poised for economic greatness. Impressed with Canada’s rapid growth that century, Benjamin Disraeli predicted Canada’s emergence as “the new Russia.”

China itself was once by far the world’s biggest economy. As late as 1820, it accounted for one-third of global GDP. But from the 1840s until a few years after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, China languished for some 130 years as the world’s largest irrelevant nation. It was hobbled by bureaucratic corruption and routinely savaged by marauding outsiders, the Opium Wars being only the best-known example to Westerners.

There’s no question that China’s second blossoming is vastly different. Its liberalizing economic reforms of 1979 unleashed an industrial revolution of unprecedented speed and global impact.

China today is the Western world’s workshop. Low-cost Chinese goods on sale at Wal-Mart have kept inflation in check and lowered the cost of living from Mississauga to Manchester.

China this year became the world’s biggest exporter, overtaking Germany; and the world’s biggest consumer of energy, displacing the U.S. China is now the world’s largest car maker, turning out more vehicles than the U.S. and Japan combined.

But the question isn’t whether this spectacular growth is sustainable. It isn’t. Trees don’t grow to the sky, and economies don’t grow at 10 per cent a year indefinitely.

Full article on China's economic growth strategy online

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