He Mingliang leather tannery is a typical success story: Expansion to Africa, a new factory in Ethiopia, sales of leather goods across the globe and a staff of more than 500.
Though Chinese tanneries and manufacturers play a significant role in the Ethiopian leather industry, more production lines should be established to produce value-added goods locally, according to a high-level official at the Ministry of Industry of Ethiopia.
"When you have countries with large economies, it is important for leaders to speak often for a sustainable development. The more our leaders can sit and discuss, the more powerful the combination of China and the US can be in the world."
A conversation with Melissa Cook, head of African Sunrise Partners, LLC, about China's involvement in Africa is full of superlatives: biggest, largest, best. It's also to the point: China's strategic push into Africa is having ripple effects that she believes no one is paying close attention to.
The term BRICS was first coined by Jim O'Neil of Goldman Sachs as a catch phrase for a basket of investment opportunities in the emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and later South Africa.
For Yin Minshan, Africa offers one of the most fertile lands for Chinese private companies' global development.
Chinese companies and their foreign counterparts are eyeing cooperation opportunities in the country's booming film market, executives at the recent Chengdu Fortune Forum said.
Chinese passion for films continues to drive the country's overall growth in entertainment and media spending, PricewaterhouseCoopers says.
EU ambassador Markus Ederer is only about half way through his tenure in Beijing, but his first two years have given him plenty to be happy about.
Proximity, affordability and financing make Chinese firms welcome in ASEAN telecom sector
The town of Ubud in Bali may look like a sleepy idyll with its green, endless rice fields, emerald hills and the sacred monkey forest where lucky visitors may chance upon a chattering crab-eating macaque, but its entrepreneurs don't let grass grow under their feet.
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