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Elinor Greenhouse, Senior Adviser, Tech and Innovation at the China-Britain Business Council, explains why UK Innovators should enter the 10th Design Intelligence Award A few days ago, Unitree Robotics captivated audiences with the world’s first robot boxing tournament, a spectacle that showcased the fusion of engineering precision and creative design. This event exemplifies the dynamic innovation landscape in China, where design and technology converge to push boundaries. It also underscores the opportunities …

Lin Zhang’s new book Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy (2023, Columbia University Press) traces the myriad local entrepreneurs, often in obscure and remote rural locations, using technology to reinvent their businesses and themselves. Paul French finds out more Whether you are a villager using e-commerce to find new and more profitable markets or a middle-class urban woman reselling luxury goods, the entrepreneurship journey is never …

A new book explores how Chinese entrepreneurs have developed strategies to lead their businesses in uncertain times. Paul French speaks to the authors to find out what international businesses can learn from them Let’s face it, it’s a tough time to be doing business in China. But Sandrine Zerbib and Aldo Spaanjaars have seen tough times before. The two veterans of China business have now distilled their experiences into a …

FROM JACK MA TO MA HUATENG, WHEN IT COMES TO GROWTH, CHINA’S RICHEST HAVE NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD. SINCE 2003, THE COUNTRY HAS GONE FROM HAVING NO US-DOLLAR BILLIONAIRES, TO NEARLY 1,000 TODAY. MANY STARTED WITH NOTHING, BATTLING THEIR WAY TO THE TOP OF THE COUNTRY’S ECONOMIC BOOM. SO WHO ARE THEY? Alex Colville finds out The year 2016 saw a significant milestone: it was when the number of …

The reform and opening up policy introduced in 1978 not only changed China, but the entire world. FOCUS asks people that have laid witness to these four decades of change to share their thoughts on China’s past, present and future. Words by Ambassador Barbara Woodward, Lord James Sassoon, Kerry Brown, Lord Michael Heseltine, and Richard Robinson In December 1978, China’s leader Deng Xiaoping, announced that China would start a period …