• posted: Mar. 06, 2017
• Peter Pang
• Business In China,  China 101

The Internet has exploded in China, and some of the world’s leading e-commerce and other web-based business like Alibaba, WeChat, and others have originated from the PRC (People’s Republic of Read More

• posted: Feb. 23, 2017
• Peter Pang
• Business In China,  Foreign Direct Investments,  China 101

In 2016, China’s government passed a new foreign investment law (the Foreign Invested Enterprises Law) designed to make the PRC a more attractive environment for foreign investors.  In connection with Read More

• posted: Feb. 17, 2017
• Peter Pang
• Labor and Employment Law,  Business In China,  China 101

In many Western countries, written employee handbooks have been standard practice for most employers for decades. These handbooks provide a uniform set of guidelines that the employer follows in terms Read More

• posted: Feb. 03, 2017
• Peter Pang
• Business In China,  Foreign Direct Investments,  China 101

Franchising American restaurants in China was recently in the news amid reports that fast food giant McDonald’s has sold its mainland China and Hong Kong businesses to a consortium between Read More

• posted: Jan. 16, 2017
• Peter Pang
• Business In China,  Foreign Direct Investments,  China 101

Under Chinese law, every company must have a legal representative when starting a company or opening a new business in the PRC.  A company’s legal representative is the individual who Read More

• posted: Nov. 16, 2016
• Peter Pang
• China 101,  Outbound Foreign Investments

The EB-5 visa is a United States visa program for immigrant investors that was first instituted by the federal Immigration Act of 1990.  The EB-5 visa provides means to obtain Read More

• posted: Nov. 07, 2016
• Peter Pang
• Business In China,  China 101

The Companies Law of the People’s Republic of China requires that all foreign-owned corporate entities have a registered physical address in China.  However, many foreign investors have gambled (and lost) Read More

• posted: Oct. 18, 2016
• Peter Pang
• China 101

As anyone who knows remotely anything about China can tell you, let alone anyone who has lived or is currently living in China, interest in teaching English in China by Read More

• posted: Oct. 10, 2016
• Peter Pang
• Business In China,  China 101

What’s new? On September 3 2016, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of the Peoples’ Republic of China (NPC) adopted the amendments which modified the rules relating to the Read More

• posted: Feb. 10, 2015
• Peter Pang
• China 101

When the Opening Up process first began in China some three decades ago, the country had very little legislation on the books regarding employment standards for private industry. As the Read More