It took Dubai more than five years to build the 828-meter Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building. But the Chinese construction company Broad Sustainable Building has announced their plans to beat that height record and build the world’s tallest building in 90 days. Though it sounds unlikely the company has built a 15-story building in […]
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For those of us in the United States, China is the place that makes the stuff we buy. What if that was to change? China, brimming with a population of over 1.3 billion, started buying with a vengeance? What if China became the place that manufacturers looked for their cues? That question is quickly turning
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Nmctoys.com (NotMadeinChina) sells toys that aren’t made in China. There was much news regarding the quality and safety of toys produced in China during the summer of 2007. We walked through the toy department of big box retailers and could not find a toy produced outside of China. Gone were the wooden blocks, dolls and
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If you attach a handful of brooms to a rotating drum and then drag that behind the car, will the streets get cleaned? There’s a video here. Yes they will.
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Adam Humphreys wanted to visit China, but getting a visa was a buearacratic nightmare. All wasn’t lost though, because Humphreys found a business opportunity. NPR shares his story: It started simply enough. Adam found out he needed a visa to travel to China. He went online. Filled out a long, complicated form. And Adam showed
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DynamicBusiness, an Australian website for entreprenuers, has shared their top ten tips when outsourcing product creation to China: Make sure your requirements / specifications are spot on, clear, concise, understandable and agreed upon. This includes product specifications right down to packaging and shipping specifications. If sourcing from various suppliers, try and cluster your supply chain
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Snooker is a table game similar to pool or billiards, but played on an enormous 6’x12’ table. Originally invented in British India in the 19th century, the sport is dying out in the UK. Luckily there’s a new market brewing for those wishing to profit from the game: China. Worldcrunch has more: In London, snooker
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Although Chen Guangbiao is more worried about awareness than profit, he has still done something not many people could have expected. He has found a way to take something free and make a little money. In this case, he is selling canned fresh air. China Daily: The air is compressed into small metal containers the
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Bloomberg is reporting today that English butlers are in high demand in China. The Guild of Professional English Butlers has trained 20 percent more butlers this year than last, placing them with clients as soon as they are ready, according to Robert Watson, head of the firm in southern England, last week. The number of
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China Daily: On a hot July day in 2010, Wang and some of his fellow villagers went shopping downtown and bought some beverages from a vending machine. Suddenly they got the idea to sell vegetables with the machines, prompting Wang and six others to establish a company to do just that. Then Wang discovered that
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