Just when everyone is looking to the Chinese market as the savior of the global economy, and when more venture capital firms and Internet startups are planning on setting up in China, something happens to shake up their plans.
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PSi is looking into setting up a factory in China, at a customer's behest.
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Ever since, I have recommended Yizheng as a location to any company thinking of setting up a factory in China.
Another factor that can discourage foreign companies from setting up sophisticated operations in China is the dramatic rate of employee turnover.
Big buy-out shops are already setting up in India, China and elsewhere.
Until now, the conventional (yet somehow simultaneously unorthodox) wisdom has been for foreign companies to worry more about local governments when setting up their businesses in China.
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IBM, meanwhile, is setting up a unit in China with 400 employees to cater purely to the country's appetite for software and services to manage its rail network efficiently.
Along the way, he was involved in setting up China's successful special economic zones, which brought huge flows of capital and technology into the nation.
In the meantime their finance-promoting groups, Jersey Finance and Guernsey Finance, are trying to draw assets from new countries, and are setting up offices in markets like China and the Gulf.
Jaguar Land Rover, a British carmaker owned by India's Tata, took the first step towards setting up a manufacturing base in China by proposing a joint venture with Chery, a Chinese car company.
Mr Zamperla has responded by setting up his own manufacturing operation in China.
And we should reconsider regulations that discourage companies from setting up plants in the U.S. while China looks attractive in comparison.
Based on my own experience of managing sales and manufacturing operations in virtually every corner of China, here are five reasons why companies should consider setting up operations in less travelled parts of the country.
America is setting up a new secretariat in its Commerce Department solely to verify China's implementation of new agreements.
Nike is setting itself up for a return to double-digit growth in China, possibly by the end of fiscal 2014, Binetti said.
Favoured firms will be invited to follow the car makers as they expand into new markets, such as China, India or Brazil, setting up parts plants in the shadow of the new assembly lines, and taking over design work too.
Setting up even a simple, non-manufacturing WFOE can be a powerful first step in China.
SHANGHAI China is considering setting up a new way for foreign pension funds to invest in its vast capital markets, according to people familiar with the matter, its latest effort to prop up the country's listless stock market.
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"We're working with certain government entities on setting up the mechanism" for continued funding, said Mr. Wang, a former securities regulator in China who is also known as Jesse Wang.
The Japanese, who buy the majority of unprocessed rare earths from China, are certainly busy: Sumitomo and Toshiba are both setting up projects in Kazakhstan, and other Japanese investors are looking at buying mining rights in Vietnam.
"If it was as easy to do business in China as it is in Singapore, perhaps we'd see other main players setting up there, " he says.
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