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China Networking Trip: Where Foreign Executives Actually Meet Their Next Partners
A China networking trip is worth the flight only if you meet the right people. Most foreign executives who come back disappointed did not lack meetings. They had the wrong ones: crowded trade-fair aisles,…
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Canton Fair 2027: How to Plan a Buyer Trip Around the Spring Session
Canton Fair 2027 spring session: expected dates, which phase fits your category, factory visits on changeover days, visa rules and free buyer registration.
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Canton Fair 2026: What Happened and What It Means for 2027
The 140th Canton Fair in numbers: buyers, AI and robotics trends, and what they mean for Western buyers planning the 2027 fair and factory visits.
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China Tech Tour for Investors: What to See in Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Shanghai
A city-by-city China tech tour guide for investors: Shenzhen hardware and robots, Hangzhou platforms and AI, Shanghai policy and capital, plus visas and rail.
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Inside China’s AI Model Race: What We Saw at ByteDance, Baidu and Beyond
In October we took a delegation inside China’s AI model race: ByteDance’s Doubao and Seedance video models, Baidu’s ERNIE, Alibaba’s Qwen and the robots putting AI to work.
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Inside China’s Fashion Ecosystem: From Design to Retail Execution
When people think about China fashion sourcing and the China fashion supply chain, manufacturing is often the first thing that comes to mind. For decades, China has been associated with large-scale apparel production, global…
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How Business Relationships Are Built in China: A 2026 Guide
Many foreign companies enter China searching for business opportunities, strategic partners, and new commercial connections. While reports, market research, and industry analysis provide valuable information, access to opportunities is often shaped by something less…
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Why China’s Manufacturing System Moves Faster Than Europe
Most discussions about China manufacturing still focus on one idea: cost. For decades, China was viewed primarily as the world’s low-cost production hub. Yet this explanation no longer fully captures why so many companies…
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China Robotics: Innovation Inside the Factories
For decades, industrial automation was often discussed as a future possibility. In many parts of China, it is no longer a future scenario. Across manufacturing corridors, logistics hubs, and electronics production clusters, robotics systems…
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Inside the Electric Vehicle Capital of the World: Chinese EVs in 2026
Most industries are structured around companies competing independently. EV China is not. It is a coordinated industrial architecture where value is created across multiple layers simultaneously: vehicle manufacturers, battery producers, component suppliers, and industrial…
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