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Shipping and Logistics: China’s expanding maritime role

ArticleJune 25, 2025

Helping to cement its role as the world’s most important trading nation, the past few decades have seen China develop into the dominant global power in the shipping and logistics industry. In 2024 alone, the country’s largest state-owned shipbuilder built more commercial vessels by tonnage than have been built by the entirety of the US […]

Building Tomorrow’s Cities: Prof. Ibrahim Odeh on Digital Twins, AI, and the Future of Urban Development

ArticleJune 16, 2025

As cities worldwide grapple with unprecedented challenges — from climate change and aging infrastructure to housing shortages and social inequality — a new generation of urban leaders is turning to transformative technologies for solutions. At the forefront of this movement is Professor Ibrahim Odeh, Founding Director of the Global Leaders in Construction Management (GLCM) program […]

Driving the digital economy: Chinese influence on Southeast Asia’s digital landscape

ArticleApril 30, 2025

The Asia Start program is crucial because it provides startups and scaling businesses across the world with strategic insights, networks, and resources to navigate the rapidly evolving digital economy. Given China’s profound impact on digital transformation, the program helps companies leverage Chinese expertise in e-commerce, fintech, AI and EVs. It also fosters cross-border collaboration, investment opportunities, and knowledge-sharing to accelerate growth and competitiveness in the region. Asia Start in Context Looking at the digital economy across Southeast Asia you can see the fingerprints of Chinese influence in almost any sector, from e-commerce to fintech to food delivery. Over the past decade, […]

DeepSeek’s Chinese-style innovation: A new form of AI economics (Part 1)

Professor AnalysisMarch 6, 2025

This insightful four-part series by CKGSB Professor Chen Long examines how DeepSeek, a trailblazer in Chinese-style AI, is redefining the economics of AI and scaling laws while setting new global benchmarks. From its unprecedented surge in daily active users to groundbreaking technological advancements and strategic execution, DeepSeek presents a compelling case study on the future […]

How can unicorn companies accelerate their growth trajectory?

Professor AnalysisJanuary 22, 2025

In the wave of global economic transformation and technological revolution, unicorn companies, as exemplars of innovation-driven growth, continue to capture attention from all sectors. How are unicorn companies able to grow in an environment marked by global economic uncertainty? In an era of rapid technological advancement, which industries still have the potential to become the […]

International Businesses in China: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities in 2025

ArticleJanuary 15, 2025

For Elena Xiong, working for a foreign firm in her hometown of Shanghai was always the goal. Still, since returning to China after studying in the US, she has found it harder than expected to land one of these coveted jobs. “I have been applying consistently for around a year now, but there are fewer […]

Conserving Energy: Promoting China’s green energy across the world

ArticleJanuary 3, 2025

Green energy generation and energy storage solutions have seen a rapid growth in quality in recent years, as popularity and demand rise around the world. Chinese firms are at the cutting edge of the industry, and Yinghe Technology has been at the heart of the improvement, producing the battery-making equipment used by new energy giants […]

Classroom Revolution: China is taking a leading role in the global EdTech market

ArticleJanuary 3, 2025

China needs to find the right balance for EdTech adoption, so that it complements, rather than replaces, existing teaching Watching a student learn with the aid of an artificial intelligence (AI) app on a tablet is no longer anything novel for Iris Yin. The Shanghai-based high school teacher says students now regularly use AI to […]

Flying High: China’s SOEs are growing in prominence in its economy

ArticleOctober 24, 2024

China’s SOEs dovetail with the country’s counter-cyclical economic policy strategy As a stock market rout in China deepened in early 2024—erasing $6 trillion of value from equities in Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong—investors, including one of China’s sovereign wealth funds, ploughed ¥410 billion ($57 billion) into mainland shares, a spree that helped Chinese stocks rally […]

Value Proposition: How likely is decoupling between China and the US?

ArticleOctober 18, 2024

Many companies are now pursuing a ‘China plus one’ strategy to lessen their reliance on the Chinese supply chain A standing ovation when China’s president takes to the stage is nothing unusual. Still, it was not an ordinary audience that applauded Xi Jinping in San Francisco one rainy night last November. Crowding into a hotel […]

New Threads: China’s fashion industry trends are coming from closer to home

ArticleOctober 18, 2024

Social media is a major driver of fashion trends in China today In 2021, a lonely user on a Chinese social media platform posted in search of makeover advice, and received a huge amount of feedback from China’s fashion-savvy netizens. In the three years since, “Classmate Xiao Ai” has become an online phenomenon and a […]

How Western consumer-facing businesses can navigate in China

Professor AnalysisJune 7, 2024

On 22 February 2024, Gao Feng Advisory Company’s CEO and CKGSB Professor of Managerial Practice of Strategy, Edward Tse interviewed Patrick Kaminski, (Managing Director China Sebapharma). With over 20 years of experience leading several major Western multinational corporations in China, Patrick shared with Ed his first-hand experience of how to do it right in China […]

Taking Flight (Again)

ArticleApril 3, 2024

Although the worst of the pandemic’s impact on travel is over, stimulating demand is still a challenge for Trip.com Group

Mixing it up

ArticleApril 3, 2024

Chinese outbound FDI is shifting away from the West and towards the Global South

Shifting Tides

ArticleDecember 13, 2023

An increasingly strained geopolitical relationship with much of the rest of the world has been the dominant story regarding China in recent years, which combined with an economic slowdown and its consequences have had a knock-on effect on the country’s business environment. But while businesses, both foreign and domestic, are having to deal with new […]