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China For Business Goes Beyond Beijing And Shanghai.

By Dan Harris and Steve Dickinson

China Business Blog just did a post on China's best cities for foreign business, appropriately entitled, "New Cities On The Block." The post starts out discussing a recent Forbes Magazine ranking that sets out China's "Best Places in China for Business," as follows: 1. Hangzhou 2. Ningbo 3. Dalian 4. Shanghai 5. Wenzhou 6. Beijing 7. Suzhou 8. Wuxi 9. Shaoxing 10.Shenzhen The Economist Magazine's Business Intelligence Unit, did its own China city ranking, based on economy, "market opportunities," labour market, infrastructure, and environment (mostly air quality) and its top ten ranking was as follows: 1. Shanghai 2. Guangzhou 3. Beijing 4. Hangzhou 5. Nanjing 6. Shenzhen 7. Tianjin 8. Qingdao Xiamen 10. Ningbo 11. Suzhou 12. Fuzhou Chengdu Dalian 15. Foshan China Business Blog sees these rankings as making clear the "that, just as the China story has moved on from being just about low-cost exports to being about added value and domestic consumption, those safe, comfortable havens of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou increasingly represent the tip of the (fast-growing) iceberg." I concur.

Full post as published by China Law Blog on September 04, 2008 (boomark / email).