Quotable

"The market has a growing need for BIPV projects and China is still at the initial stage."

Liu Min, executive president of Hanergy Holding Group, the world's largest thin-film photovoltaic solar panel manufacturer, in explaining that China's market for building-integrated photovoltaic energy offers a great deal of potential for solar power companies, builders and governments to cut down on carbon emissions.

"China's initial competitive advantage was its cheap labor. But in the long run, its sustainable advantages will be innovation and quality."

Chuck Grindstaff, CEO of Siemens PLM Software, in saying that he believes China will be the biggest market and largest buyer of innovative industrial software to spearhead the next industrial revolution.

"In this year's sluggish consumer retail market, we see the segment of middle class consumers in first-tier and some second-tier cities is growing rapidly. Their disposable incomes are reaching a critical mass to drive a sales takeoff in the mass-premium segment."

Adam Xu, a partner with multinational consultancy Strategy&, explaining that growing consumer trade is one of the main reasons for the surge in cross-border e-commerce in China.

(China Daily Africa Weekly 11/14/2014 page18)