BUSINESS WEEKLY - Monday November 2,2009
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Zhou Houjian is one of the beneficiaries of China taking its place at the head table of trading nations.
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Keith Rockwell, chief spokesperson for the WTO.
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Opinion
Editor's Note: Citigroup forecast that China's GDP growth would reach 9.8 percent year-on-year next year and that inflation could reach 3.2 percent.
Cover Story
Walking on the Bund, Shanghai's historic waterfront, and looking across the Huangpu River at the gleaming skyscrapers in the Pudong District that houses many of the western financial giants, you can feel the pulse of change with the opening up of China's financial market.
Finance
China's private equity (PE) fundraising and investments rebounded in the third quarter, with renminbi funds leading the trend, according to a new report from Zero2IPO, a Beijing-based company specializing in venture capital and PE research, consultation and investment.
Industry
Wuxi, a picturesque city that lies along the Taihu Lake resort, is planning to build a "little India" in years to come.
Motoring
Volkswagen Group is well on course to meeting the target it set in 2007 to slash the average fuel consumption of its China-made vehicles - a pace it plans to accelerate by locally producing VW's latest engine and transmission designs.
Companies
Editor's note: Thrane & Thrane, a leading manufacturer of equipment and systems for global mobile communications based on satellite and radio technology, is aggressively expanding its business, with a 190 percent increase in sales in 2008 compared to that of 2007. The Danish company's global CEO, Walther Thygesen, visited Beijing recently and shared his business strategy with China Business Weekly reporter Zhang Qi.
IPR Special
GUANGZHOU: Wu Guomin profited for at least a decade by producing lamps under the big brands of "Philips" or "Wipro". But that was before the financial crisis.
Charity China
Wu Tong, a fifth-grade student in Beijing, was surprised to find that he could make his own little "airplane" by using a piece of paper, a straw, two paper clips and some tape.
World News
AHMEDABAD, India: When night falls in remote parts of Africa and the Indian subcontinent, hundreds of millions of people without access to electricity turn to candles or flammable and polluting kerosene lamps for illumination.
Insight
With China's strong third-quarter economic showing reflecting a rapid recovery in China's economy, investors are listening closely to policy makers' comments for clues about whether the country is beginning to unwind its ultra-loose pro-growth policies.
