Unfortunately Nitrous.io does not work in China, neither does any other web based IDE that I know about. While it's true that it's a tough sell for Chinese companies, there are a lot of foreign companies here doing development.
I met Greg Fisher at a hardware meetup- very, very sharp guy. He is absolutely right about Process trumping Relationships BUT it can be very difficult to establish that process if you are only in China for a short while to get something manufactured.
I bought the Gear VR when they just said a Note 4 was needed. Once I got it I found out that of course, this was not the case with my HK bought Note 4. So useless region locked lenses and a piece of plastic. I'll never buy any VR hardware from Samsung again.
Nonsense. Expat indicates citizenship status. An expatriate is a person temporarily residing in a country other than that of their citizenship. An immigrants on the other hand is a person in the process of changing their citizenship to their new resident country.
I've never heard a European immigrant referred to as an Expat in New York.
Here in China we are certianly not immigrants because it is made absolutely clear we are expected to eventually leave.
If anything the question is why are some people called Expats and some called Migrant Worker?
Love it. Would be great if you included cutting speeds and lubricants for different materials. Great (and low-conflict) way to quickly qualify new people for machines at Makerspaces.
The article sort of misses the real issue- the demographic. The PRD is very young, well educated and highly ambitious. Tokyo has the education, but it otherwise increasingly stagnant.
New difficulties here in Shenzhen buying the required markers of Chinese status (cars and houses) mean young Chinese are increasingly interested in startups and entrepreneurship as an alternative signaling method.
Why is this getting downvoted? Tokyo's population is projected to peak in 2020 and then go into rapid decline (joining the rest of country, which is already shrinking fast). The PRD is set to keep growing for at least several decades, although eventually China will hit the same crunch.
>This is not true. Wholly foreign owned enterprises have existed in China for many years, and their permissible activities have increased greatly over the last 5 years.
The letter of the law is never the actual implementation of the law here. Wholly foreign owned enterprises are tolerated up until there is a Chinese company in competition- then you get raided by the police in the early AM and find yourself on CCTV for “Tricking the Chinese People”. You’ll be allow an exit provided you sell your business for pennies on the dollar to your direct Chinese competitor. Yes, even if you speak, read and write Chinese, yes, even if your Chinese wife negotiated for you, yes even if you have a dozen Chinese lawyers and a contract. China as a system has zero interest in protecting the interest of foreigners- and you will always be such because they have no interest in immigration in any form.
The ONLY interest China has in foreign companies is for capital and as a vehicle to transfer IP. Once they have that- the company will be shown the door. Happens over and over again but Western companies persist in thinking they will be the exception.
I’ve lived in China for over a decade, I love it here, but without exception every foreigner I know here who has attempted to start a business was screwed in the end. Rich Chinese know this and most do everything they can to do business only with foreigners and earn their money overseas.
Totally agree. I think it's sometimes surprising and/or unbelievable to people without experience of China that their history/culture/politics is so exclusive and that people would behave this way. Most of the high speed train network was built on foreign technology and expertise, but contractors I knew working on that project regularly had their apartments broken into (with nothing taken but the laptop) and half of their job was trying to stop their chinese counterparts stealing their IP (anecdotally of course). This kind of activity has been a mainstay of the China miracle the last 30-40 years
What you say is also largely true. However you can in fact have a foreign owned enterprise and operate, at least until you come on the wrong radar.
The original statement, "Any commercial company operating in China needs to have 51% Chinese participation." is entirely not correct. And even with 51% Chinese participation, a foreign partner is likely to be screwed in the end.
Baidu translate works great in China and will translate anything you copy to the clipboard automatically. Requires the usual insane Chinese app permissions so Xprivacy or something similar is a must.
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