In the world of the "Big Six" agriculture-chemical companies, marketing a product is like trying to find shelf space in the cereal aisle dominated by a handful of brand names, but that's what Chinese pesticide producers are looking to do.
China's regulators are supporting the development of new forms of online finance - within certain limits - as traditional banks watch the encroachment of revenue-hungry Internet companies onto their turf.
Buying struggling BlackBerry Ltd would help a Chinese smartphone vendor to build a stronger global presence in the short term, analysts said on Wednesday, adding Lenovo Group Ltd and Huawei Technologies Co Ltd could be the top bidders for the Canadian company.
Tencent Holdings Ltd, China's biggest Internet company, reported lower-than-expected second-quarter results on Wednesday as higher marketing costs for its fledgling messaging and social media app WeChat eroded earnings.
Editor's Note: Cautiously optimistic, that can be the description of the economists' general feedback on the latest data about China's economic performance, at least according to the views that China Daily has collected here.
The planned expansion of Tesla Motors Inc into the local market is being blocked by a Chinese person that currently holds its trademark, according to US media.
In what is being called a landmark ruling for intellectual property nationwide, a Shanghai court recently issued the country's first ban on the circulation of trade secrets, according to the report from Legal Daily.
With debts at local-government level mounting, China has to curb easy credit and open up the financial services sector to private and foreign enterprises, says S. P. Kothari, deputy dean of Sloan School of Management under the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Olivier Fleurot has always been open to change. Trained as an engineer, he ended up managing newspapers and is now developing a global public relations network.
China's economic expansion and emergence on to the world scene has been the most important development since the end of the Cold War, leading some commentators to conclude that the 21st century belongs to the People's Republic or, simply, that China will rule the world.
Elevator and escalator manufacturers ride high on the back of China's urbanization
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