Doing Business in Beijing China. Chinese Silicon Valley

Doing Business in China: China - Chinese economy - China: Marine transport and ports - Customs of China - FDI in China - Shanghai - Greater Pearl River Delta (GPRD) - Guangzhou - Shenzhen - Hong Kong

Master International Business MIB for Chinese students

Related International Trade Courses and Masters: Business in Eastern Asia - Master Business in Asia - Master in Emerging Markets - Master Business Asia Pacific Region.

Course summary Doing Business in Beijing:

Beijing, as China's political, cultural and international exchange center, is a dynamic city with a wide range of industries.

Beijing is home to tens of thousands of Chinese, foreign and Sino-foreign companies, which between them have a work force of hundreds of thousands. Foreign companies alone have employed more than 20,000 locals. Most of them are young professionals and receive high incomes. By 2010, the GDP will be double that of 2000.

Main economic districts and Counties of Beijing: Dongcheng, Haidian, Fengtai, Tongzhou, Chaoyang, Chongwen, Shijingshan, Yanqing, Xicheng, Xuanwu, Shunyi

High tech and modern manufacturing industries have become the leading forces of Beijing's industrial growth. Many of the world’s top 500 companies, including Intel, Microsoft, Motorola, Sun, AMD and Hitachi, all engaged in high-tech industries, have established a presence in Haidian District. Haidian hosts the Haidian Science Park, which is the most important sub-park of Zhongguancun Science Park and often known as China’s Silicon Valley. Fengtai District is as a major resource for Chinas high-tech industry.

Example of the course Doing Business in Beijing:

In Tongzhou district there are seven industrial zones with a total area of 64 square kilometers in Tongzhou, focusing on modern manufacturing and high-tech industries. The Central business district (CBD) and hundreds of famous transnational companies and financial institutions are located in Chaoyang.

In Xicheng distrcit there are over 30 financial institutions located in the zone, including the China People's Bank, China Securities Regulatory Commission, China Insurance Regulatory Commission, Bank of China, China Bank of Industry and Commerce, China Construction Bank, and China Pingan Insurance Company.

In the past young people used to have their jobs arranged by the government. But today they have shown much interest in taking up their own business to become bosses. They run companies or open shops, exhibiting great enthusiasm.

Beijing's registered population is 14.93 million. The majority of the city's residents are of the Han ethnic group.

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Lenovo is a 21 billion USD personal technology company serving customers in more than 160 countries, and the world’s fourth-largest PC vendor. Formed by Lenovo Group’s acquisition of the former IBM Personal Computing Division, the company develops, manufactures and markets reliable, high-quality, secure and easy-to-use technology products and services. Lenovo has continued to outperform the worldwide PC market for the past eight consecutive quarters, through solid execution of the successful “Protect and Attack” strategy.

Founder Group was invested and created by Peking University in 1986. Over the past 20-odd years, Founder has adhered to sustainable technical innovations and assumed an important position in the development process of China's IT industry. The total sales revenue of the Group reached 6.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2008. Founder has maintained the second place in PC manufacturing for 7 consecutive years, constituting the manufacturing foundation for the development and massive application of China's IT industry.

Aluminum Corporation of China (CHINALCO), is the world’s second largest alumina producer and the third largest primary aluminum producer. Based in China and oriented towards a global presence, it aggressively integrates its domestic resources while accelerating expansion of its international businesses and a vast product portfolio.

As one of the key state-owned enterprises under the supervision of SASAC (State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council), Sinochem Group has been named to “Fortune Global 500” for 21 times, ranking the 168th in 2011. Sinochem is China’s biggest integrated agricultural company.

EENI in Chinese: 国际金融硕士