Venture capitalists see China’s slowing growth as an opportunity to increase investment, mainly in consumer-oriented sectors, industry insiders said during a forum yesterday.
The hot topics were investments in food chains, health care, children’s products and online games, investors said during the Piper Jaffray & ChinaVenture Investment Conference 2008.
Tags: foreign-investment, Fund
Foreign direct investment in China rose 38 percent in February, adding to a pool of cash that threatens to stoke inflation already at an 11-year high.
Spending by overseas companies increased from a year earlier to $6.9 billion, the Ministry of Commerce said today on its Web site. Investment in the first two months climbed 75 [...]
China has been reforming its policies in an effort to discourage overseas investment in energy-intensive, polluting and resource-based ventures — the so-called smokestack industries.
Delivering a work report to the 1st session of the 11th National People’s Congress (NPC) on Wednesday, Premier Wen Jiabao made known China’s determination to end its position as a global center [...]
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will deliver a government work report at the opening meeting of the First Session of the 11th National People’s Congress (NPC), the top legislature, in the Great Hall of the People on Wednesday.
Following are the highlights of the Report on the Work of the Government distributed to journalists before the opening [...]
France expects more Chinese companies to invest in the country by providing a better business environment, said Philippe Favre, president of the government-backed Invest in France Agency, yesterday in Shanghai.
Investing in France can assist Chinese firms to go global and gain easy access to the European market, he said.
Tags: foreign-investment, investment
The European Union and China aim to launch a high-level trade dialogue in April, the EU said Monday, as Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson visited Beijing amid tensions over China’s swelling trade surplus with Europe.
Mandelson met with China’s new commerce minister, Chen Daming, and other officials during his three-day visit.
Tags: EU, foreign-investment, trade
