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THE CHINA
BUSINESS HANDBOOK The top-selling business and travel guide - 2013 edition ‘This is an outstanding resource- focused, well-organised, compiled with contributions from an impressive selection of authoritative China hands. Whether you need help finding the right joint venture partner, finding your way around the Chinese hinterland, or finding your way through the vagaries of China’s bureaucracy, The China Business Handbook is the place to turn.’ -Ted Plafker, Journalist and Author of Doing Business in China: How to Profit in the World’s Fastest Growing Market The China Business Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to every region of Chinafrom the thriving coastal cities to the rapidly developing inland regions. This fully revised and updated edition contains essential economic information about each province, supplemented by up-to-date maps, charts and tables. It also provides an overview of the practical issues involved in living and working in China, and contact details for the principal ministries, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as for key business and service companies and leading hotels, and information on: • History and religion • Legal system • Language training • Education • Healthcare • Internet use • Intellectual property
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