But it speaks to the key challenge facing China: how to re-allocate capital toward uses that will generate sustainable growth.
Now, the major challenge for China is rising prices caused by inflation.
The challenge that China, Japan and Korea face is whether they can build on the remarkable base that their respective long-term owners have provided.
FORBES: Are Chinese State Owned Enterprises A Threat To U.S. Companies?
The challenge for China's domestic manufacturers is clear: Capture a substantial piece of the market for new phones that will accompany that astonishing growth.
The biggest challenge that foreign investors will face when entering the China market in 2012 is the intense competition that exists for good deals.
Speaking ahead of the G20 Summit in Toronto on 26 and 27 June, Mr Browne said although the rise of economies such as China and Brazil was a "challenge" for the UK, it was vital to do business with them.
The plant that caught fire on Monday illustrates the challenge to imposing uniform safety standards on China's fragmented and fast-expanding food business.
Speaking on a panel at Davos, Mr Kleinman said it was important to challenge the notion that China was not doing its bit for the environment.
The other challenge is that in China, each publisher tries to provide a whole funnel scenario, trying to capture all adspend, even when that is not the most effective solution.
FORBES: What is Holding Back Digital Advertising Adspend in China?
Being in the right place at the right time is a challenge in China's shifting landscape.
The EFA Crowdsourcing Challenge winners come from China, India (two prize-winners), Kenya, Switzerland, and the United States.
This is what Apple has done to Google by choosing China as the best venue in its challenge to Google Maps.
WSJ:The main challenge in finding investments in China seems to be that many companies have grown rapidly to a certain size, but governance has not kept up pace.
As evidenced by the devastation of the market values of U.S.-listed Chinese companies that has occurred, overcoming the information and credibility gaps that exist between China and the rest of the world will continue to be a major challenge for foreign investors.
The challenge is to turn around the China operations.
FORBES: Billionaire Tony Tan Caktiong Takes Jollibee Foods Global
The U.S. China Business Council asked its members to answer this question recently: what is the biggest challenge for your business in 2012?
It also underscores how China wants to work within the international order, not challenge it.
But the scale of the threat was highlighted earlier this week when the chairman of China Mobile - the world's largest telecom carrier - said his firm was now more concerned about the challenge posed by Microsoft's Skype and Tencent's WeChat services than it was about competition from China's rival mobile networks.
China's environmental challenge moves well beyond simply the problems faced by any society at the height of its industrialization.
By 2006, eight private carriers had sprung up to challenge the three state-controlled majors, Air China, China Southern and China Eastern.
FORBES: China State Enterprises Advance, Private Sector Retreats
We will look at the politics of U.S.-China relations, and other geopolitical issues that challenge international businesses.
Raising cashmere goats in the U.S. is a challenge, given how much cheap fiber is available from China.
Meanwhile companies are facing the challenge of slower growth both at home and overseas, even in emerging markets like China where the pace of expansion has clearly slowed.
FORBES: Apple Loss Lands Nasdaq And S&P In The Red, Dow Up On Caterpillar, Boeing.
For the first time in the bank's history candidates from developing countries mounted a challenge to an American nominee, though in the end Mr Kim was backed by China, India, Mexico and other big emerging markets.
The 2012 GMR on TVET will address the challenge of making the transition from school to work, including organizing a major conference in China in 2012.
Although Apple is based in the US, it outsources production of its mobiles to factories in China and Brazil making them vulnerable to such a challenge.
应用推荐