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Understanding China’s Economic and Technological Development Zones, such as the Hainan Free Trade Port and others, is key to UK businesses benefitting from them. Following a launch at the China Development Institute’s annual China Development Zone Conference in Shanghai, CBBC‘s latest report from the ‘In the Zone’ series is now available Complementing the first edition of In the Zone, which gave an overview of the different types of zones commonly seen …

Phase 2 of Cambridge Econometric’s report commissioned by CBBC, ‘UK jobs dependent on links to China’ has been published Building on Cambridge Econometric’s earlier report – which estimated that UK ties with China now generate some 129,000 full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs – the new paper focuses on regions. Among the main findings are: Trade, tourism and educational ties with China support an estimated 7,000 to 10,000 FTE jobs in each …

A recent report titled: ‘Towards a UK strategy and policies for relations with China’ written by Charles Parton, a former diplomat and senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, in collaboration with the Policy Institute at King’s College, London, argues that the UK urgently needs to develop a new China strategy. FOCUS talks to Parton about the report and his thoughts on the future of UK-China relations   …