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SEPTEMBER 2009

Think regionally, act locally: Four steps to reaching the Asian consumer

The most successful global consumer enterprises are radically reshaping their organizations and business models to suit the region’s rapidly evolving high-growth markets.
AUGUST 2009

A consumer paradigm for China

A more consumer-centric economy would allocate capital and resources more efficiently, generate more jobs, and spread the benefits of growth more equitably. It would also even grow more rapidly.
JULY 2009

Understanding China’s wealthy

China will soon be home to the world’s fourth-largest population of wealthy households. Companies that hope to reach them must understand how they differ from their counterparts elsewhere, from other Chinese consumers, and from one another.
MAY 2009

China’s green opportunity

China can and must achieve sustainable growth. Although the country has already charted an ambitious course to improve its energy efficiency and environment, a McKinsey study finds opportunities to do even more.
DECEMBER 2008

Private ownership: The real source of China’s economic miracle

Even many Western economists think China has discovered its own road to prosperity, dependent largely on state financing and control. They are quite wrong.
JULY 2008

How to address China’s growing talent shortage

The imbalance between business opportunities in China and qualified executives to manage them will get worse—a lot worse—before it gets better.

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JULY 2008

Meeting the challenges of China’s growing cities

China’s cities are booming. Intelligent policies could make the good effects prevail over the bad ones.

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JUNE 2008

Global investment strategies for China’s financial institutions

Chinese financial institutions are flush with money at an opportune moment. They should resist the urge to build empires and instead focus on advancing their skills and global experience.
JUNE 2008

China’s track record in M&A

China’s companies are expanding the focus of their outbound M&A, but so far they have struggled to create value.

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OCTOBER 2007

The opportunity in asset management in China

The country’s asset-management market will grow by 24 percent annually for the next ten years, but the multinational companies attempting to serve it face vastly increased competition.
JULY 2007

A quiet revolution in China’s capital markets

Reforms that attracted little attention in the Western world mark a major step forward in the modernization of China’s capital markets.

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APRIL 2007

When Chinese companies go global: An interview with Lenovo’s Mary Ma

CFO Ma describes the unique challenges awaiting Chinese companies that seek growth through international acquisitions.

AUGUST 2009

China and the US: The potential of a clean-tech partnership

Only a collaboration between the two countries will create an environment where clean-energy technologies can thrive.

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SEPTEMBER 2008

What China can learn from Japan on cleaning up the environment

Japan’s experience provides an excellent road map for anyone who wants to gauge how China can deal with its environmental problems.
JULY 2008

Cleaner energy for China: An interview with the chairman of ENN Group

In a country with a major pollution problem, Wang Yusuo is trying to build a part of the solution.

JULY 2008

A growth strategy for a Chinese state-owned enterprise: An interview with ChemChina's president

Ren Jianxin explains how domestic acquisitions helped prepare the way for overseas ones.
JULY 2008

Reassessing China's state-owned enterprises

China’s state-owned companies, like China itself, are diverse. Many of them would make better partners for multinationals than some of their private-sector counterparts. Openness, not ownership, is the key.
FEBRUARY 2007

China’s state-owned enterprises: Board governance and the Communist Party

As the state-owned sector attracts strategic investors, they find themselves befuddled by the role of an almost invisible power: the Communist Party.

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JULY 2008

How corporate China is evolving

China’s business landscape is changing rapidly. So must the way we comprehend it.
MAY 2008

A pioneer in Chinese globalization: An interview with CIMC's president

A company that has already disrupted the container business is moving into transportation equipment and services.
MAY 2008

Competition from China: Two McKinsey Surveys

Executives around the world expect competition from Chinese companies to increase, mainly because of their low production costs, yet surprisingly few are acting to meet the threat, a McKinsey survey shows. A separate survey of executives based in China reveals widespread global ambitions and concerns about finding the talent to reach them.
JULY 2008

The cost of going global for China’s high-tech companies

Chinese technology companies are competing successfully on their home turf. Global markets may be another story, at least in the short run.
MAY 2008

How Chinese companies can succeed abroad

Chinese companies are seeking opportunities abroad. They will have to acclimate to new surroundings—just as the foreign companies that entered China did.
NOVEMBER 2007

Bringing best practice to China

As the country merges into the world economy, best practice in China will become best practice globally, products developed in China will become global products, and industrial processes developed in China will become global processes.

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JUNE 2008

A global road map for China’s automakers

China’s carmakers have a great future on the world stage—but not in the immediate future.
MAY 2008

Selling China’s cars to the world: An interview with Chery’s CEO

Yin Tongyao explains how his fledgling automotive company learned to profit from adversity.

SEPTEMBER 2008

What’s new with the Chinese consumer

It’s hard for brand managers to keep pace with the shifting attitudes of Chinese consumers. But some trends can be discerned amid the noise.
NOVEMBER 2007

How half the world shops: Apparel in Brazil, China, and India

Multinational retailers face new challenges to capture the increased spending power in each of these distinctive markets.
JUNE 2006

Lessons from a global retailer: An interview with the president of Carrefour China

Jean-Luc Chéreau discusses the French company's experiences as its hypermarkets spread out from China’s biggest cities to the vast hinterland.