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By Yuxin He
Yuxin He is a corporate analyst for Dragonomics Advisory and is a guest contributor to Dragonbeat blog this week.
Five years ago, a little-known electronics firm in Guangdong province – TCL – briefly became the world’s biggest televis…
By Will Freeman
Will Freeman is a staff member of Dragonomics Advisory and is a guest contributor to Dragonbeat blog this week.
China’s rare earth miners, if you believe a flurry of recent newspaper articles, have the world’s producers of high-tech…
By Arthur Kroeber
Is China’s credit binge a financial time-bomb waiting to blow the country’s much-vaunted economic miracle to smithereens?
Beijing has long bet that the problem of bad loans can be solved by pushing off the day of reckoning into t…
By Michael Komesaroff
Michael Komesaroff is principal of Urandaline Investments , a consultancy specialising in China’s capital intensive industries, and a guest contributor to Dragonbeat blog this week.
China’s metals industry has an unenviable re…
By Rosealea Yao and Tom Miller
Rosealea Yao is Dragonomics’ research manager and a guest contributor to Dragonbeat blog this week
Just how expensive are Chinese homes?
The standard measure of housing affordability compares average house prices wi…
By Tom Miller
China is rightly proud of being the home of tea, the world’s most popular drink. Celebratory cups of cha were sipped when China recently regained from India its historical position as the world’s pre-eminent tea producer and consumer …
By Will Freeman and Tom Miller
For years, China’s domestic carmakers have languished in their foreign competitors’ slipstream. Strip out the legion of blue trucks and white minivans that crisscross the hinterland, and Volkswagen, GM, Toyota and Hon…