While Chinese telecom equipment vendors have a stronghold in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Chinese operators however are still struggling to gain a foothold.
If the tide of development turns in its favor, Zhoushan is ideally placed to become a leading international port.
Zhoushan hopes winds of fortune will blow its way
"We all agree that we want to see the US- China relationship succeed. We have made progress in some of the bilateral issues. We have not yet, in my mind, fulfilled our full potential."
In 2011 it was grey, 2012 was black, and this year will be bloody. It's not a slogan for some Hollywood disaster movie. It's what they're saying in the shipbuilding yards of Zhoushan in East China's Zhejiang province.
More European companies are planning further investment in China, the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China says.
During the China (Shanghai) International Yacht Show in April, the number of smaller yachts shorter than 8 meters in length that were sold showed a 43 percent year-on-year increase.
Chinese local governments are once again trying to jump-start the electric-vehicle industry as potential customers remain largely ambivalent to incentives to get them to buy what is billed as the transport of the future.
It would be trite of him to say it, but there's no doubt that Kurt Haerri got a big lift out of sharing a table with Li Keqiang at a lunch during the Chinese premier's recent visit to Switzerland.
On her fifth visit to Hong Kong, Wang Ting, a 25-year old from northwestern China, spent a five-day holiday in April in a room with an ocean view in a luxury hotel.
Ground down by a bleak economy at home, Italian brands are looking for relief from afar