Doing Business with China

Chapter 1.5: Chinese Government Structure

Figure 1.5.1: Ministries, Commissions and Administrations that constitute the main body of the State Council

Figure 1.5.2: Departments within the Ministry

Figure 1.5.3: A typical reporting structure

Figure 1.5.4: Administrative structure for a typical province

Figure 1.5.5: Reporting structure of a prefectural city

Figure 1.5.6: Comparison of the official rankings in different government structures

Chapter 1.7: China's Consumer Market

Figure 1.7.1: Share of the ten most populous provinces

Figure 1.7.2: Level of education by percentage of population in 2000

Figure 1.7.3: Comparison of urban and rural education

Figure 1.7.4: Income disparity among urban and rural residents a widening gap

Figure 1.7.5: The growth of urban and rural household savings (19782001)

Figure 1.7.6: Engel's coefficient for urban residents is declining

Chapter 2.6: Foreign Trade Activity and its Administration

Figure 2.6.1: Average tariff by key categories of products by year 2005

Chapter 2.11: Freight Forwarding in China

Figure 2.11.1: The position of a freight forwarder

Chapter 4.2: Cultural Differences and Clashes in Communication

Figure 4.2.1: a. Power distance has determined different approaches in communication of problems.

Figure 4.2.2: b. The varied degree of uncertainty avoidance led to attitudinal differences towards problems.

Figure 4.2.3: c. Collectivism- individualism predestined behavioural differences in response to problems

Chapter 4.3: Networking Practice in China

Figure 4.3.1: Guanxi and guanxiwang

Figure 4.3.2: The research framework

Chapter 4.4: Due Diligence for Market Entrants

Figure 4.4.1: Roadmap to the market

Chapter 4.7: Industrial and Commercial Market Research

Figure 4.7.1: A typical route to reach the households in the sampling process

Chapter 4.9: Marketing Consumer Products in China

Figure 4.9.1: Typical marketing channels in China

Figure 4.9.2: The cost of entering the Carrefour chain

Chapter 5.3: China's Securities Market

Figure 5.3.1: Breakdown of departments within the CSRC

Chapter 6.1: Automobile and Motorcycle Industries

Figure 6.1.1: China's passenger car market 1990 to 2002

Figure 6.1.2: Customer segmentation: growth of private customers

Figure 6.1.3: Mapping of major vehicle assemblers

Chapter 6.2: Automotive Components

Figure 6.2.1: After market distribution channel (local parts )

Figure 6.2.2: After market distribution channel (imported parts)

Figure 6.2.3: Shock absorber distribution map, volume flows

Figure 6.2.4: After market suppliers

Figure 6.2.5: Payment terms

Chapter 6.3: Commercial Vehicles

Figure 6.3.1: Bus market historical sales (units)

Figure 6.3.2: Truck market historical sales (units)

Chapter 6.6: Insurance

Figure 6.6.1: Increase in insurance revenue 1995 2000 (100 million RMB)

Chapter 6.7: IT and the Internet

Figure 6.7.1: Desktop PC sales in 2000 and 2001

Figure 6.7.2: Market share of the key laptop brands 2001

Figure 6.7.3: IA server market shares by sales value of key brands, 2001

Figure 6.7.4: IA server market shares by sales value of key brands, 2001

Figure 6.7.5: RISC server market share by brand, 2001

Figure 6.7.6: Growth of the IT services market 19992001

Figure 6.7.7: Market share by IT services category, 2001

Figure 6.7.8: Growth of the system integration market

Chapter 6.11: Pharmaceuticals

Figure 6.11.1: Market positions of pharmaceutical products in China by source

Chapter 6.13: Promotional Advertising

Figure 6.13.1: Internet advertising spend in China (RMB million)

Figure 6.13.2: Chinese Internet users' attitudes towards Internet advertising

Chapter 6.14: Retailing

Figure 6.14.1: Average number of retail outlets of the top 100 retail chains, 19972001

Figure 6.14.2: Average turnover of the top 100 retail chains 1997 to 2001 (RMB 100 million)

Chapter 6.17: Tourism

Figure 6.17.1: Growth of domestic tourists (100 million people)