The obvious advantages of a licensing agreement are that it enables a company to monetize the value of its technology, does not expose the company to the difficulties of managing a business in China, and does not require a capital investment.
High population density, a poor ratio of available water to demand, and regional imbalances in available water supplies are serious challenges for China in managing its usable water supply.
"We are very pleased to launch the BlackBerry Curve 8910 smartphone with Digital China across their nationwide retail distribution network, " said Gregory Shea, Managing Director, China at Research In Motion.
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As the managing partner of China Qiming Ventures Partners in Beijing, Tung focuses on Internet and consumer investments.
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Francis had been managing the property side of the business in China when he was asked to take over.
"The average migrant worker's wages increased 15% this year, and inflation is only 1.9%, so that means lower-wage workers can spend, " said Shaun Rein, managing director of China Market Research Group in Shanghai.
What could do Zhu in is his obsession with micro-managing China's affairs.
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David Su (the D in the TDF trio) split in 2008 to join Matrix Partners China as a managing partner.
This year many manufacturers have shuttered factories, relocating to cheaper locations in central China and Vietnam, says Todd Lee, managing director of Global Insight's Greater China group.
Stanford professor Michael Spence, Nobel laureate in economics, and Shaun Rein, founder and managing director of China Market Research Group (CMR), both told me that China might very well exceed Japan to become the second-largest consumer market in the world.
Peter Marcus, a steel-industry veteran and managing partner of World Steel Dynamics in New York, says that by 2010 China will have capacity for steel products some 63m tonnes ahead of forecast domestic demand.
Feng Deng, managing director of Northern Light Venture Capital in Beijing, paints the new scenario for China.
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Anyone who has been short China banks in that period has been losing money unless they were actively managing those positions and getting their timing right.
China needs to first find popular support if it is to take a role in managing and improving the global infrastructure.
With Europe in recession and suffering from a sovereign debt crisis that refuses to go away, China managing a slowdown to contain inflation, and the U.S. muddling through, corporations have had a hard time finding buyers.
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Earlier this year, in a sign of change to come at Kleiner, managing partner Ray Lane angled to close the gap between the investing strategies and styles of its teams in China and the U.S., and initiate more collaboration.
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"The biggest risk in the world is China's middle class not being happy, " said Shaun Rein, the managing director of China Market Research, a consulting firm.
"Everybody in the gold market knew there was a surge in investment demand, but they didn't know it was China, " said Jeff Christian, managing director at CPM Group.
In key markets such as China, Consular officers are keeping interview wait times to an average of five days in 2012 while managing a 37 percent increase in visa demand.
Ng, who is now an Asia-based managing director of Silicon Valley's Granite Global Ventures, says the venture capital firm expects to invest more money in China in the next few years.
More turnover among the Kleiner Perkins China team has founding managing partner Tina Ju leaving as one of two anchors of the preeminent firm that ventured from Silicon Valley to China in 2007.
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"The acquisition of Kingway gives us greater access to high growth and attractive regional markets in China, thereby enhancing China Resources Snow Breweries Limited competitive position, " said Ari Mervis, managing director of SABMiller Asia-Pacific.
Hutchison Managing Director Canning Fok liked that idea but also saw an opportunity to get in on sales of traditional Chinese medicine in China, a segment of the pharma business that had not yet opened up to foreign investment.
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