Doing business in China is a complicated issue with much information required to find out the relevant laws, taxes and operational procedures. At China Expat, we've teamed up with China Briefing, who have been publishing matters concerning China business law, tax and so on since 1999. Details for their free (we knew you'd like that part) monthly magazine and China daily business news are below. They also publish a series of books, including on specific advise for SME's, and again we feature these and the relevant links below.
CHINA INFORMATION
CHINA BRIEFING DAILY NEWS
One of the foremost English language business news services in China. Also has a complimentary weekly update subscription option. Great for breaking business news and relevant articles.
This magazine is also free (but you need to subscribe) and is one of the better and most established business magazines available. Subscription options are in English, German, French, Spanish & Italian. Subscribers can also access their archives section which is really useful for research.
China Briefing also publish a good series of technical guides to issues such as "Setting Up Representative Offices", "Setting Up Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprises", "Setting Up Joint Ventures", "The China Tax Guide", "China Mergers & Acquisitions" and a great little book, "The SME China Business Bible". They are all priced at USD25 plus p&p and are written by experts in their fields.
Dezan Shira & Associates are one of the few truly national practices in China and have been providing professional legal and tax advise to foreign investors in mainland China since 1992. They're pretty much everywhere you need them to be, all their staff speak English and they have several expatriates speaking various other European languages too. Very good reputation for dealing with new to China businesses and nine regional offices:
REGIONAL INFORMATION
The following websites contain good quality regional information:
2POINT6BILLION
This site deals with Emerging Asia, and includes daily updates on China, India and the rest of South-East Asia and ASEAN. A weekly update service is available
This site deals with the subject of doing business in Communist countries, and includes China, Russia, North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, and all of the ex-Soviet Union countries from Poland to Kazakhstan, as well as a neat social forum. A weekly news service is also available.
CHINA BRIEFING DAILY NEWS
