BUSINESS WEEKLY - Monday July 21,2008
MAIN SECTION
Baby-faced Peng Haitao comes across as a shy student who seldom talks. But the 24-year-old college dropout is a hero for many Chinese students hooked to online games.
Memory Lane
Chinese consumers commonly regard France-based Carrefour's launch of its first China hypermarket in Beijing in 1995 as the debut of foreign retail chain enterprises in the nation.
Cover
Wealth does not always bring fame and applause. When Chinese video game companies like Shanda and Giant made headlines on the Wall Street for their profit earning capabilities, they were accepted at home with controversy and doubts.
Energy and Environment
In the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale, Rumpelstiltskin spins straw into gold. Tianguan Group in Henan province, one of China's major agricultural regions, is now transforming straw, and other plant wastes, into "green" gold - cellulosic ethanol, a next- generation biofuel produced from non-food sources.
Companies and Industry
As China's economic lifeline, the iron and steel industry used to be a black smoke maker and blue-sky killer in the eyes of many people.
Charity China
A company's manager is usually busy calculating the costs and returns and focusing on making profits. But now, more news about the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) may pose a challenge to the Chinese managers to consider whether their activities are good for society.
IPR Special
If you want to know what all the fuss is about "Jiebaina", looking back on the history of Chinese wine making industry may help.
Local
The planned over-the-counter (OTC) market and the Beijing-Tianjin express railway are upgrading the importance of Tianjin and spurring the economic integration of the cities.
World News
When the rest of Britain's furniture trade headed to China for mountains of cheap leather sofas to slake the demand of a raging housing boom, Edward Tadros had a different plan.
Up Close
Beyondsoft, a Beijing-based software outsourcing service provider, used to share some substantial similarities with China's countless machinery part exporters: they all received orders with detailed specs from overseas clients, survived mainly on cost advantage and had a few happy years.
