Jin Liqun often starts work at 7 am and leaves the office at 7 pm. After a grueling day's work, he has dinner and walks for an hour in a park beside his Beijing home.
China is working with the International Trade Centre, a 50-year-old, Geneva-based organization, to build the competitiveness of smaller African businesses and link them to the global value chain.
Dominic Ziegler believes major geographical features can be as responsible as people for shaping history.
For Wolfgang Kubin, studying Chinese literature sheds light not only on China, but on his inner self.
Winfried Bischoff has no concerns about China's slowing economic growth. He's done the math.
Chinese businesses should start planning the path to globalization, as they develop their business model to make use of market diversification and global perspective, says a professor and entrepreneur in residence at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge.
Deborah Brautigam believes that many commentators who should know better continue to misrepresent China's engagement with Africa.
China will collaborate with global partners to further benefit Africa while ensuring the fruits of its development can be shared by the world, says a senior Chinese researcher.
This year is a milestone for Chinese entrepreneurs going international, according to Rupert Hoogewerf, who has spent years tracking and ranking the wealthiest people in China.
Restructuring the international rating system is the only way to promote the recovery of the world economy, and China can play a leadership role, says Guan Jianzhong, chairman of Dagong Global Credit Rating Group.
William Kirby, a leading US Sinologist, does not believe all the current doom and gloom about the Chinese economy.
The world is rapidly coming to terms with the importance of China's economic weight, partly due to the international impact of the country's recent financial market turmoil, says Robert Bergqvist, chief economist of SEB, the Nordic bank.