Coca-Cola has announced that its non-carbonated beverage plant in Wuhan, Hubei, was put into production recently. With a total investment of CNY600 million, this new production base is reported to be the company's largest non-carbonated beverage plant in the world. According to reports in local media, Coca-Cola's production base in Wuhan will have four production lines. So [...]

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How many entrepreneurs have sat down and thought to themselves, “If only the Chinese would buy my product…Heck, if only one in 10 Chinese would buy my product, I’d be rich!”  Call it the China Dream. It has a long history.

James McGregor wrote a book in 2005 on doing business in China called One Billion Customers. If the title sounds familiar, it may be because a man named Carl Crow wrote a book called 400 Million Customers, back in 1937. You see, the dream only gets bigger over time!

For the most the part, this dream remains a mere dream. But sometimes, someone, somewhere, figures it out. Carl Crow was someone who figured it out, and it made him a rich man.

Carl Crow led an adventurous life. Born in Highland, Missouri, in 1884, Crow started out as a newspaperman. Eyeing his fortune, he started China Press in Shanghai in 1911. But

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Taiwan-based food and beverage group Uni-President has announced plans to produce dairy products in Wuhan, Hubei, and to sell these products under its Uni-President brand in China. Xiao Fengshi, the general manager of Uni-President Central China, told local media that dairy sector is the largest sector for Uni-President's food business in Taiwan. The group plans to [...]

With the competition in the budget hotel industry becoming increasingly fierce, each budget hotel is busying seizing the market in central China.
According to Chinese media, budget hotel brands such as 7 Days Inn, Home Inns, Jinjiang Inn, and GreenTree Inn are all increasing their expansion in central China, particularly Wuhan in Hubei province.
Of these, 7 [...]

Chinese sportswear brand Li Ning has announced plans to build a manufacturing and distribution base in Jingmen, Hubei province at a total total investment of CNY3.2 billion. The manufacturing and distribution base named Li Ning Industrial Park is located in Jingmen Economic Development Zone and covers an area of 3,200 mu. Li Ning will be responsible [...]

Composite Technology Corp. announced today that it has received a new conductor order from Far East Composite Technology Company, a subsidiary of Jiangsu New Far East Cable Corporation. The order calls for a single core size with associated hardware to be used on a 240 kilometer transmission line in China’s Hubei province.

The company underscored the significance of the order as it signals the recommencement of order flow for new projects in China. Although the second half of 2008 realized a drop off in orders as a result of the impact of the Summer Olympics in China as well as the subsequent holidays, starting in mid-October transmission line projects resumed and the backlog of suspended projects was addressed.

According to the press release, the continuation of orders advocates that the Far East is working through the end of the backlog projects and is anticipating new projects for 2009. Under terms

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