Mar 24 2006 | China, Peoples Republic of | City Profile: Harbin, North China Emerging Market
Highlight: Known as China’s Winter Wonderland, Harbin has quickly emerged as a major regional market for Northeast China, and beyond. The Northeast has gone through a series of dramatic changes, yet renewed and government-led initiatives have revitalized the economy of Harbin, and surrounding Heilongjiang Province. Traditionally cosmopolitan and commercially oriented, Harbin is the major trade, transportation, and communications hub for North China with a wealth of natural resources, bountiful supply of skilled labor and excellent positioning on the Chinese-Russian Far East border right next to Korean and Japan. Harbin offers considerable market opportunities for U.S. food, and agricultural products.
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Mar 17 2006 | China, Peoples Republic of | Mainland China HRI sector Annual Report
Highlight: As one of the earliest sectors opened to foreign investment, China's Hotel Restaurant and Institutional (HRI) sector continued to enjoy phenomenal and sustained growth in 2005 with revenues totaling US $110 billion. While the sector continues to undergo significant change, branding, franchising, off-site catering, informational technology, and portion control are all increasingly playing a role. Prosperous urban consumers are also changing with preferences moving rapidly toward healthy, nutritious, fast, and safe menus. High-end HRI markets have moved well beyond traditional major markets of Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai and into China's major Emerging City Markets (ECM).
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