The most efficient companies in China are new privately owned domestic firms, which make an average return on equity of 19%, according to research by the City University of Hong Kong.
In view of the recent global economic turmoil and our limited financial resources, our business plan for 2010 has been to continue to focus on the marketing and distribution of energy efficient products in China.
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Specifically, Paulson wants to see stronger and more efficient capital markets in China, increased domestic consumption and more exports from the U.S. to China.
China is an efficient industrial giant that is managing its internal policies effectively and is also managing its external environment.
As other Asian nations become efficient at mass manufacturing, China must embrace research and high-technology production to transform its economy as South Korea and Japan once did.
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Though the bing tuan is China's most efficient grower of cotton, thanks largely to its use of plastic strips (a Japanese invention) laid over the cotton seedlings to conserve moisture, it employs over 300, 000 workers for the harvest.
While China's government is particularly efficient in rescue and repair work, travellers should avoid these areas.
Its aim would be to make cleaner, more efficient technologies available in developing nations like India and China.
If China is the world's most efficient workshop, perhaps it does not also need to be the world's most cutting-edge laboratory.
Wim Elfrink, a Dutchman living in India in charge of Cisco's booming global services business, talks about using the Internet to collapse the cost of U.S. medicine by employing Malaysian doctors or making China's urban electrical grid more efficient with an intelligent Cisco data network controlling the power.
Can the U.S. consumer absorb a 34.4% increase in the cost of many goods, or will China continue to become a more cost-efficient manufacturer?
An associated reform of China's economy is the creation of more efficient (and ultimately safer and less polluting) means of private production, especially of food.
As China works to make its capital markets more modern and efficient, a system that allows investors to better understand the central bank's policy leanings is becoming more critical.
China will not have the lowest hourly labor costs but highly efficient factories and effective supply chains.
Much will depend on whether China's motorists decide to choose smaller, fuel-efficient vehicles favored in Japan and Europe or the larger gas guzzlers driven by Americans.
U.S. companies want access to China's burgeoning market for renewable energy, and clean and efficient technologies.
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And the hottest strategic trend in automaking--led by Ford Motor, Nissan and China--is making lighter, safer and more fuel-efficient cars.
The coal was sent to potential customers in China and South Korea, to prove its quality and design the most efficient system.
Toyota, for instance, is importing from its super-efficient plants in Japan, but is also ramping up production in Tianjin, on China's coast.
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Beijing also requires government agencies to buy energy-efficient products, and it has focused on improving building efficiency in hotels in the China's cold northern regions.
The power stations frantically being built in China to feed the country's new electricity grid will be relatively efficient and thus less polluting than older coal plants around the world.
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And yet it is China that has launched the largest effort in history to make their economy energy efficient.
Already China has built a new road, giving its landlocked Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces efficient access to Rajin, Asia's most northerly year-round ice-free port.
However, the most important aspect of this expansion is that it will allow Johnson Controls to address the growing demand for energy-efficient HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) products from the building market in China.
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As part of its stimulus package, China provided incentives for those in its rural economy to trade in their less fuel-efficient vehicles for more conventional means of transportation.
Later, companies had little choice but to move to China because their competitors had already located there, and soon suppliers congregated around assemblers, forming efficient industrial communities.
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China has also raised taxes on gasoline and diesel and reduced the sales tax on more fuel-efficient vehicles.
Foreign investors like to think that they are needed in China to provide the competition and technological know-how that might force domestic companies to become more efficient.
LatticePower, started by a physicist with skills and experience honed in China, is a good example of this new trend with its breakthrough technology for making a highly efficient source of light.
More efficient use of energy in developed economies is being outweighed by more demand for oil in emerging ones, notably in China's transport sector.
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