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Under The Dome: Chai Jing & Making Her Blue Sky Dream a Reality
Chai Jing and team, take a bow. Under The Dome was a bold, brave, well researched and magnificently delivered documentary that pulled out all the artillery in the war against China’s deadly pollution....
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Alibaba’s Sales Higher than China’s Top-100 Physical Retailers
Your brand has locked in favourable deals with the top-10 retailers in China, including the best in-store placement and positioning of your merchandise and regular point of sale promotions. You’re...
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China’s Market Meltdown’s Effect On Consumer Spending
The impact of the spectacular rise and fall of China’s stocks is anyone’s guess. It would appear that China is imploding if you read some news reports – stories of a weaking China attracts readers in...
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China’s Tourism Growth and Transformation
If you’re looking for a jaw-dropping illustration of China’s growing presence in the world, go no further than the United Nations World Tourism Organisation’s outbound tourism expenditure chart from...
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Making Cross Border Commerce Work in China
Ecommerce is forcing China’s retail landscape to change. While countless new stores open online every month in China, more than 200 physical retail chains shut their doors last year. Even China’s...
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Reasons Behind China’s Unique Consumer Behaviour
Few markets have experienced changes in the way that China has over the past few decades. Just 35 years ago, more than four in five Chinese were living in the countryside, typically tending small,...
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China’s Foreign Food Movement
There has been a slew of recent coverage about Chinese FMCG brands outsmarting foreign players with faster growth rates. Local brands often better understand customer needs and meet them with nimble...
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China’s Smartphone Buying & Purchase Behaviour
2014 was the first year in decades that China’s luxury sales declined – a gloomy -1%. It was in stark contrast to the 12% growth in retail spending overall.The shift from luxury purchases can be...
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Creating Relevant Apps & Websites for Chinese Consumers
In 2012, less than 5% of China’s online shopping was done on a mobile. Nowadays, more than half of all sales in China’s massive ecommerce market are made though a smartphone. China’s shift to...
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The Importance of China’s 13th Five Year Plan
Last week, lots of important people met for four days in Beijing to formulate the development plan for China for the next five years. A fun video has been doing the rounds to explain what huge deal it...
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What Defines a Foreign Brand in China?
As recently as 2012, most Chinese consumers considered international labels categorically better than local alternatives. KFC was a good example: although consumers knew deep-fried drumsticks weren’t...
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Dirty Tactics in China
Uber’s official Tencent WeChat accounts were blocked again last week. Given Tencent also owns a large share of Uber’s main Chinese competitor, Didi Kuaidi, their motivations are fairly clear. The block...
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Foreign Brands’ Blunders for the Chinese New Year
After last year’s high profile gaffe by Burberry, when their special edition Chinese New Year scarf was mocked on social media, you’d think foreign brands would take extra care to ensure that their...
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International Travel Set to Boom Over Chinese New Year
As more Chinese move into cities, there are more who need to return home for China’s Spring Festival. The world’s largest mass migration just keeps getting larger, with 2.91 billion trips expected to...
View ArticleMaking the Most of WeChat in the Year of the Monkey
Happy Year of the Monkey. If you’re based in China, we hope you had a good break. Something we’ll undoubtedly hear about in the Monkey year is WeChat. And with good reason. WeChat accounts for more...
View ArticleLiving in Beijing Can Make You Rich & Fat
2015 was a good year to be an aspiring billionaire in China. It was when the country added 90 new tycoons, passing the USA to top the billionaire count at 568. It was also the year Beijing pipped New...
View ArticleThe Chinese Consumers Driving Prices Up
Last week, the Economist Intelligence Unit released the results of its worldwide cost of living survey. Shanghai topped the list for Mainland cities, climbing 13 places from last year to match Tokyo...
View ArticleThe Interesting Undertones of Chinese Regulation
Keeping up with the dynamic Chinese consumer is essential for anyone selling in China, but it’s also a good idea to stay abreast of ever-changing regulations. We obviously need to comply with the...
View ArticleFrom Minerals to Mobiles – driving China’s GDP Growth
Last week, we spoke about how Chinese consumers are unsophisticated in some ways, and the most advanced globally in others. We only need to take a look at smartphone habits to see one of the areas...
View ArticleChinese Consumers’ Different Priorities
Even in China’s wealthiest big cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, the average white collar worker earns less than $1,400 a month, or under $18,000 a year including a Chinese New Year bonus....
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