Doing Business in China For Dummies®

Touring the Mainland Regions

This section gives you an overview of opportunities, strengths, and challenges of China’s various regions.

If you’re looking for a specific type of opportunity, you may want to consult the U.S. Commercial Service China Web site (www.buyusa.gov/china/en). The site provides comprehensive information on a number of Chinese cities as well as updated trade leads showing opportunities to participate in various projects or businesses. The Chinese government also provides some provincial and city information at www.fdi.gov.cn. Another way of finding specific opportunities is to go to any of the many, many industry and regional trade fairs that take place in China.

Northeastern China

Here we discuss four areas in northeastern China: Manchuria, Tianjin, Shandong, and Beijing.

Manchuria

Manchuria contains the northeastern-most three provinces in China: Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang. Parts of Manchuria are next to North Korea and Russia. The area has a little over 100 million people, and it’s the heartland of China’s heavy industry state-owned enterprises (SOEs).

This area is actually a top development priority for the government, and a lot of money’s floating around these three provinces for economic development projects. The governments of the area are emphasizing development of the information technology, telecommunications, environmental technology, automobile ...