Everything You Always Wanted to Know About China

15-Dec-2010

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An eternal optimist, Liu-Yue built two social enterprises to help make the world a better place. Liu-Yue co-founded Oxstones Investment Club a searchable content platform and business tools for knowledge sharing and financial education. Oxstones.com also provides investors with direct access to U.S. commercial real estate opportunities and other alternative investments. In addition, Liu-Yue also co-founded Cute Brands a cause-oriented character brand management and brand licensing company that creates social awareness on global issues and societal challenges through character creations. Prior to his entrepreneurial endeavors, Liu-Yue worked as an Executive Associate at M&T Bank in the Structured Real Estate Finance Group where he worked with senior management on multiple bank-wide risk management projects. He also had a dual role as a commercial banker advising UHNWIs and family offices on investments, credit, and banking needs while focused on residential CRE, infrastructure development, and affordable housing projects. Prior to M&T, he held a number of positions in Latin American equities and bonds investment groups at SBC Warburg Dillon Read (Swiss Bank), OFFITBANK (the wealth management division of Wachovia Bank), and in small cap equities at Steinberg Priest Capital Management (family office). Liu-Yue has an MBA specializing in investment management and strategy from Georgetown University and a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Marketing from Stern School of Business at NYU. He also completed graduate studies in international management at the University of Oxford, Trinity College.







From Forbes Blog site,

No country epitomizes insane growth like China. But if you really want to dig behind the headlines (about things like stellar IPOs, trade issues, COP16, territorial disputes, rare earth metals, even Shanghai test scores), you need to take a quick look—more on that later—at what may well be the definitive guide to China, or at least the most up-to-date.

Published by the research department of a major international bank (hint: with roots in China that go back to 1865), it shows how local autonomy and inter-regional competition are helping to transform China’s economy.

In their words: “Some are awed by the startling way in which the country shrugged off the impact of the global financial crisis. Others question the sustainability of the growth-at-all-costs model and fear the experiment could end badly. Some applaud China’s state-run capitalist model as a competitive or better alternative to laissez-faire capitalism. Others contend that what China has done is not much more than ‘the Japanese model on steroids.’ The optimistic predict that China is destined to replace the US by 2025 or earlier as the world’s largest economy. Others argue that it’s ‘on a treadmill to hell.’ The battle of words is on and it’s loud.” Whatever.

What it really is is a comprehensive compendium of economic, financial and corporate data for 31 regions, provinces and municipalities and 21 big cities. A few extraordinary nuggets:

  • By 2020, China will have six provinces with an annual GDP of more than USD$1 trillion, equal to six countries the size of Russia (or Spain or Canada).
  • With 47% of the population now living in cities, eight Chinese cities have a population of more than 10 million, and 93 have more than 5 million. By comparison, in the US only New York City has a population of more than 5 million.
  • Beijing, China’s Washington DC, is also China’s Silicon Valley. Its Zhongguancun area saw 23 high-tech IPOs in 2009, against just one for Silicon Valley. There have been another 35 IPOs so far in 2010.
  • Kunshan, one of 2,000 county-level cities, produces more than half of the world’s notebook PCs, or 85 million units—and yet IT manufacturing is not even its top-ranked industry.
  • Suzhou, one of 280 prefecture-level cities, has a per capita GDP which is 70% and 46% higher than Beijing and Shanghai, respectively.
  • Jiangsu, a province little known to outsiders, is poised to overtake the much better-known southern province of Guangdong to become China’s largest provincial economy as early as 2012.
  • The 1.5 million inhabitants of Erdos, a city rich in natural resources in the otherwise poor western part of the country, will have a higher GDP per capita than Hong Kong in three years time.

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