Marking 75 Years of the PRC: A Time for Celebration and Reflection
As China continues to advance, it offers new paradigms and insights that contribute to a more diverse and nuanced understanding of global development.
As China continues to advance, it offers new paradigms and insights that contribute to a more diverse and nuanced understanding of global development.
As an emerging city of technological innovations, Shenzhen attracts entrepreneurs from around the world. They find Shenzhen is a paradise that can enable them to realize their business visions through technological innovations. Laurent Le Pen, a French entrepreneur, who has two technology companies, is one of them. With continuous innovation in the field of wearables, he is able to create new business and sell products worldwide. Why is China attractive for international investors to set up tech businesses? With this question in mind, our British host Jay Birbeck visited OMATE in the Nanshan Science and Technology Park of Shenzhen to quest for answers.
By sharing expertise in renewable technologies, facilitating product-sharing and promoting international climate cooperation, China demonstrates a concrete commitment to improving African livelihoods and aiding the continent’s green industrial growth.
China’s pet economy is showing unprecedented vitality. In 2023, the country’s urban pet cat and dog market reached $39.2 billion. What is driving the continued boom in China’s pet economy? And how can foreign companies capture Chinese consumers’ hearts? In this episode, Sinologist Elsbeth van Paridon, also an editor with CICG Americas, heads to Shanghai to explore the Pet Fair Asia and Royal Canin’s factory to find answers.
In the first half of 2024, more than 26,000 foreign-funded enterprises have opened business in China. What makes China such an attractive destination for foreign investment? Host Zein Ali visits a German toy company in Ningbo to find out. With nearly 30 years of presence in China, this company stands as a model of how foreign enterprises can enter, thrive, and grow in the country. Through interviews with German employees and the company’s founder, Zein explores the experiences of foreign companies in China, the supportive policies they benefit from, and how these enterprises view China’s business environment with confidence and optimism.
Amid growing protectionism, geopolitical conflicts, trade tensions, and hampered global collaboration, China and Africa have seen deeper trade integration and international cooperation through multilateral mechanisms like the FOCAC.
China is the greatest ally of the countries and peoples of Africa in that struggle for complete emancipation and the 2024 FOCAC Summit marks a significant step in that long journey.
Kenya will benefit from Chinese renewable energy companies who set up their bases in the country.
The high level of attendance reflects the strong bond between China and Africa, their trust in each other, and their determination to counter challenges and grow together.
China-Africa cooperation can be considered as a model for the world cooperation, with mutual respect and sincerity as the keys to its success.
China rejects what the West calls ‘rules-based order,’ and promotes multipolarity, democratization of international relations and the transformation of global governance.
Combining the integration of Indigenous worldviews and legal framework, with an ambitious foreign and industrial policy, could pave the way for an eco-civilization with Latin American characteristics.