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Funding pro specializes in SOEs

Investment | Cai Xiao

Avoiding failure in the world of corporate business

Management | Zheng Yangpeng

Nation faces huge challenges ahead

The Chinese stock markets reacted impatiently after the Dragon Boat Festival (Monday through Wednesday) to the changes in the outside world or, to put it another way, a lack of changes inside the country.

Microblog insights

Topic 1: Chinese wine dealers began to stockpile European wines in the wake of China's investigation into EU wine announced this month. China's announcement came after the European Commission decided to levy punitive tariffs on the country's solar panel products. The Ministry of Commerce in Beijing said the wine investigation is not a retaliatory measure.

Creative thinking benefits Shanghai & HK

Fang Jinqi, a well-off 32-year-old real estate agent from Shanghai, goes to Hong Kong at least once a month to stock up on the latest fashion and savor the finest Cantonese food served at eateries known only to connoisseurs.

Former industrial sites given imaginative new lease of life

Despite efforts to liven up its gray concrete structure with colorful lights and attractive signs, the old abattoir in downtown Shanghai, renamed 1933 in memory of a bygone age, remains an eerie place, with a chill draft blowing through the premises.

SocGen to ease African trade

French bank Societe Generale SA is seeking to expand into Africa to tap the boom of Sino-African trade and the rapidly growing commercial activities of Chinese enterprises in the region.

China's 'Smart City' being created in Hefei

Hefei State Hi-tech Industry Development Zone, one of the nation's first group of such zones, has designed a "Smart City" aimed at creating a Silicon Valley-type high-tech cluster in eastern China, between the Yangtze and Huaihe rivers.

Striving for a greener Earth

In 1997, a young man named Cao Renxian gave up the "iron rice bowl" of a college teacher and dived into the world of business. At that time, such a decision was seen as a bold act, but Cao had a strong belief that he would one day succeed in the area to which he planned to devote his career - new energy.

Continental aims to boost driving safety for customers

A Hefei-based branch of Continental Corp, the leading German tire manufacturer aiming to become one of China's top three tiremakers and suppliers over the next few years, has vowed to enhance driving safety for Chinese customers.

3M eyes 1b yuan super plant

3M Hefei, a major local branch of the US giant Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, plans to become a super manufacturing hub for the company, capable of producing a variety of products.