As a result, roughly 150 local firms went public in China last year, down 45% from 2011.
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Many Chinese management teams that are taking their companies public in China or in overseas capital markets do not understand what is required to run a publicly listed company.
This guest post was written by Justin Knapp, an investor relations professional in China and director of Ogilvy Public Relations, China Outbound Practice in Beijing.
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LinkedIn will be the first social networking company to go public except for China-based Renren, which went out earlier this month, so it will set a public benchmark for the entire category.
China's public security ministry reportedly received word from China's embassy in Venezuela in 2011 of dozens of cases of robbery, kidnapping and extortion targeting Chinese citizens.
Mrs Lo is the public face of China International Fund and China Sonangol.
Because building a public company in China is a symbol of success.
Huge Xiong, founding partner at IDG Capital, said in a recent public speech that China still has a lot of opportunities for investors.
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The Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to faxed requests for comment on Tuesday, a public holiday in China marking the Lunar New Year.
Safety in schools has been a major public concern in China since a devastating earthquake in Sichuan province in 2008 killed tens of thousands of people.
Obviously, the ban would take some time to phase in, but the goal is to have no smoke and no smoking-related advertising in any public area in China by 2020.
Last year, initial public offerings from China accounted for nearly one-third the total of all listings in the U.S. While this year has seen a slowdown to 13 IPOs in the U.S. from China, the long-term trend is unstoppable as Chinese entrepreneurs gain new-found confidence and their startups become market leaders.
Picking up the pace on the exit front, Qiming took content delivery network China Cache public in the last quarter of 2010 and online dating site Jiayuan this May, though neither have scored blockbuster IPOs.
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The IPO research shop found that an investor who bought all 68 U.S.-listed China initial public offerings from 2008 through mid-June would have seen an average loss of 24%, compared with an average return of 25% on non-Chinese IPOs.
The China correspondent for the public radio show Marketplace tracked down the interpreter that Daisey hired when he visited Shenzhen China.
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China's Public Security Bureau, which handles visas, didn't comment on specific questions about visa runs, except to cite Chinese regulations.
China Daily says public expectations are running high for the two sessions, especially on corruption, pollution, education, healthcare and social security.
They, and not the foreign media, bear the main responsibility for conveying China's public opinion and acting as a watchdog on its government.
Messrs Huang and Wei will thus join the company of such global celebrities as David Beckham, Ronaldinho Gaucho and Janet Jackson as a public face of Pepsi in China.
One of the academics, Wang Feng, director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Centre for Public Policy, argues that China's demographic pattern had already changed dramatically by the time the one-child policy began in 1980.
So big was the attraction of China that all of the leading companies to go public went out of their way to associate themselves with the China market.
The process culminated in 2005 and 2006 with public listings in Hong Kong of China's three largest banks.
Over the ensuing years, however, public opinion swung in favour of China, and so came to accept what Mr Kissinger had done.
Then, when it comes time to exit the company through an initial public offering, NEA and the investment bankers can take UPG public on a local exchange in China.
China could invest through public-private partnerships in American infrastructure.
To prevent the real-estate market from crashing, China also started a massive public-housing program aimed at lower-income workers.
Some observers expect an announcement this week because a weeklong public holiday begins Oct. 1, China's National Day.
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It seems that nearly every company I speak to in China lately plans to go public in the next year or so.
The Bush administration has begun talking more about climate change, just as China is putting the best public face on its efforts.
Ctrip also backs HanTing, another fast-growing Chinese budgetary hotel chain whose parent company, China Lodging Group, went public on NASDAQ just this March.
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