China press review

China’s Gen Z are coming of age: Here’s what marketers need to know: Gen Z represent the next engine of domestic consumption growth. Officially defined globally as the cohort of people who were born between 1996 and 2010, Gen Z make up about 15 percent of China’s population and represent the next engine of domestic consumption growth.

How AI and big data helped China’s tech giants dominate consumer finance: China’s tech giants have the secret recipe that can improve the buying journey and they are applying this to consumer credit.

Xi presents China as a force for good on the global stage: This summit season, Chinese president Xi Jinping has taken every opportunity to highlight China’s success at controlling Covid-19 and present the country as a driver of economic recovery and globalization.

China’s “Health Silk Road”: Adapting the BRI to a pandemic-era world: The larger Belt and Road Initiative is framed as a necessary component of the world’s post-corona economic recovery, but it is the Health Silk Road that takes pride of place in China’s Covid-era diplomacy.

Wallonia, land of life sciences:
Walloon health competitiveness cluster BioWin, in collaboration with Wallonia Export-Investment Agency (AWEX), has just published a brochure highlighting Wallonia’s strengths in hosting companies working in life sciences.

Foreign policy expert: China is ‘outstripping us’ in technologies of the future: As former diplomatic officer Tom Hanson put it, it’s been a “annus horribilis,” Latin for “horrible year”, in foreign policy too.

Is Biden Preparing to Tweak the Indo-Pacific Strategy? A shift in language may signal some changes to the Trump administration’s headline Asia policy.

President Xi says China is willing and open for new free-trade deals in speech to Apec CEOs: Days after China and 14 other countries signed RCEP, Xi says his government does not want decoupling or to exclude other countries

Mapping and recalibrating Europe’s economic interdependence with China:
Main findings and conclusions: Europe needs a clear-eyed assessment of its economic relations with China.

Will Liege Airport be the European hub for the Covid-19 Vaccine? It is not up to LGG, or any airport, to call itself that. From experience, we know that the shippers and logistics companies decide on the flows.

RCEP: Asia-Pacific nations sign world’s biggest trade pact: The China-backed RCEP deal excludes the US and will account for 30 percent of the world’s economy and population.

Service, consumption to play greater role in economic recovery:
China’s economic recovery has entered the second stage in which service industry and consumption will play greater role, according to the latest KPMG report.

November 18th, 10:00 – 10:45 am [Webinar] Livestreaming & Influencers, two digital trends SMEs need to leverage on to expand their audience and create new business opportunities.

Alibaba boasts $70.6 bln sales in first post-virus Singles’ Day: China’s Alibaba said orders on its e-commerce platform during the Singles’ Day shopping event hit 467.5 billion yuan ($70.6 billion) by Wednesday evening.

China: Still the world’s growth engine after COVID-19: Consumers, one of the key drivers powering China’s economic rebound, have regained confidence and are spending at levels seen before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

China’s exports surged unexpectedly last month, as pace of import growth cooled off: China’s exports grew by 11.4 per cent in October from a year earlier while imports grew by 4.7 per cent.

GSK begins production of adjuvant in Belgium: This is one more step towards a vaccine to fight against the coronavirus, and it is in Belgium that it is happening.

China bans foreign visitors from Coronavirus-plagued countries: The moves were announced on Thursday by the Chinese embassies in Belgium, the UK, Bangladesh and the Philippines.

Webinar Awex – Episode 09 of the #EUCBEC Webinar Series -November 12th, 10:00 – 10:45am:
As presented today by Silvia Assirelli, social distancing has highlighted the importance of digital channels and lockdown has elevated digital as an urgent priority.

Notice on Airline Boarding Requirements for Certificates of Negative Nucleid Acid and Anti-Body Blood Tests Results in order to reduce cross-border transmission of COVID-19.

China can no longer rely on old model of development, time for change: Xi. President Xi Jinping said on Saturday that China can no longer rely no its previous economic development model of depending on global exports.

Liège Airport receives the world’s ‘Best Cargo Hub of the Year’ award: This international recognition is the result of a successful bold strategy focused on cargo, diversification and innovation.

As the West stumbles, ‘Helmsman’ Xi pushes an ambitious plan for China: China’s leader emerged from a key Communist Party meeting newly emboldened, outlining a road map for the country for years to come.

China Leads Again: US President Donald Trump wears his recent experience with COVID-19 infection as some perverse badge of courage, rather than as a warning of what may lie ahead.