Results tagged “commerce”

We’re hunting for a Project Champion, an American corporate executive most likely, to get us started (i.e., $250,000 to organize, plan, and create enough documentation to pursue serious funding). Although an old law prohibits government funding, we have good connections in the new one and that could change. Unfortunately, they aren’t in charge until February, two months into the one year left for us to do anything of quality.

In the new Worldwide Centers of Commerce study conducted by MasterCard, Shanghai emerged as the top city driving growth in emerging markets worldwide. Other Chinese cities that made it to top ten in the list were Beijing in 2nd place, Guangzhou (6th) and Shenzhen (10th), with Budapest, Kuala Lumpur, Santiago, Mexico City, Warsaw and Bangkok filling the rest of the slots. Xiamen, Chengdu, Dalian, Tianjin, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Chongqing, Qingdao, Xi'an and Harbin also made it to the list of 65 cities. [h/t to China Law Blog]

A study by MasterCard found that Shanghai has leapt from 32nd position to 24th in the ranks of the world's leading centres of commerce, becoming one of eight Asian cities in the top 25.