China / Business

Investors pour into London market

[2017-05-22 07:44]

Chinese investment is pouring into London's commercial property at an unprecedented rate, according to realtor CBRE, which said there was 2.72 billion pounds ($3.52 billion) of investment in the first quarter of 2017, a sixfold increase year-on-year.

Foreign funds tap new route on improved access

[2017-05-22 07:44]

China's private fund management or PFM segment is seeing new entrants that are coming in through the wholly foreign-owned enterprise or WFOE route, heralding more investment avenues for domestic investors, said analysts.

Investors embrace Chinese REITs

[2017-05-22 07:44]

Real estate investment trusts or REITs are becoming popular in China.

Set for rebound

[2017-05-22 07:44]

Chinese banks seem to be facing a "best of times, worst of times" moment.

Big banks' profitability on the mend

[2017-05-22 07:44]

The profitability prospects of China's big banks have improved in the first quarter of this year after the country's economy picked up steam during the period while smaller banks will see greater capital and liquidity pressure amid tightened regulation, analysts said.

Asset quality begins to brighten

[2017-05-22 07:44]

BEIJING - Chinese listed banks' nonperforming loans or NPLs in 2016 remained a concern, and they sought to tackle them through a variety of methods, according to a report of PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Made-to-measure suits Dayang fine

[2017-05-22 07:44]

Chinese garment manufacturer Dayang Group Co Ltd is focused on building the world's biggest online platform for custom-made suits. For, in the words of Hu Dongmei, CEO of Dayang, "made-to-measure is the future of apparel".

Canton Fair shows China, competitors now in an embrace

[2017-05-22 07:44]

GUANGZHOU - At Area 15.1 of the sprawling Canton Fair in Guangzhou, the capital of southern China's Guangdong province, exhibitors from India, Pakistan and Turkey touted their wares to global buyers last fortnight.

Camera +++ plan clicks in China

[2017-05-22 07:44]

For 12 years, Canon China's president and CEO, Hideki Ozawa, 67, pursued a dream. He wanted to make Canon, which entered the China market in 1997, a brand to reckon with in the mainland.

Restoring the 'beehive'

[2017-05-21 09:41]

The developmental inequalities between Africa's landlocked countries and coastal regions will soon be narrowed, and emerging economies will become more competitive, thanks to the ongoing construction and expansion of ports in African countries by Chinese companies under the Road and Belt Initiative.

Tiles put a shine on business in Africa

[2017-05-21 09:41]

The Belt and Road Initiative has led to new opportunities in Africa for two Chinese companies.

Homes of the future roll off the production line

[2017-05-21 09:41]

After nine months of construction, a complex that holds precast building components, a display area, an office building, a building supplies supermarket and a hotel, is taking shape in Machakos county, south of Nairobi, Kenya.

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