B2B website: Alibaba.com

Nowadays, if you want to buy something, it is much easier through internet. Since the B2B website has been mature after about 10 years development. Now, china is called “world’s factory”( this title arise a lot of argument, we just put it aside.) and a lot of countries buy from China. If you are a buyer, how could you find the qualified manufacturer within a short time?

One of the choices is the biggest B2B website in China: alibaba.com. It collects maybe the biggest numbers of manufacturers in China. Since 2 years ago, it even started to invite a lot of manufacturers from Australia, Southeast Asia and India, etc.

But since alibaba charges the manufacturers, so it has to protect the manufacturers. So it didn’t do much on valuing the suppliers. So when the buyers open the webpage, he will be embarrassed to watch the seem-to-be-endless list of manufacturers.

Driving in China

If you don’t have a Chinese driving license, you are not allowed to drive in China. Even you have a international driving license, it still doesn’t work. The only way for you is to change your driving license to the Chinese driving license. Fortunately, it is not complicated, and it is cheap.

In another word, you don’t have so much desire to drive in China, especially when you don’t read Chinese. In the big cities, like Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, the traffic is so heavy, jam is almost everywhere, you will not enjoy the speed. And in the countryside or on the highway, the signs are written in Chinese only.

Now, it is a little better for the later problem, the GPS develops so fast in China; you could get the help of GPS to navigate China. But still there is something bothering you. First the GPS generally is in Chinese only. Second, since the China develops so fast, the city outlook changes almost everyday. But the GPS maps usually update every six months.

Asbestos Cancer

Asbestos could bring cancer to the people. So the Europe and US have forbidden the use of asbestos in the building materials. But in China, you still could find asbestos in many materials. Why, because the testing machine of the government could not find anything if the asbestos covers less than 5%. So a lot of manufacturers don’t have the pressure to improve it.

China Construction Bank—Partner of Bank of America in China

It is said Bank of America was investing $2 billion in the USA No. 1 mortgage lender, Countrywide Financial. But do you know China Construction Bank is the partner of Bank of America in China?

In China, there are four biggest commercial banks: ICBC( Industrial and Commercial Bank of China), BOC( Bank of China), CCB( China Construction Bank) and ABC(Agriculture Bank of China).

2005 August, Bank of America bought 9% share of CCB.

From 2006 April, both banks’ customers could cash out on each other’s ATM for free. CCB owns 11000 ATMs in China and Bank of America owns 17000 ATMs in USA.

From 2006 October, Bank of America and CCB have announced a joint pilot program to offer free consumer account wire transfer service to and from China.The pilot program is only available in the US at 110 Bank of America locations in Alameda, San Francisco and San Mateo counties. In China, the program is available in nearly 250 CCB locations in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Liaoning and Xiamen.


This is good, isn’t it? The customers could save a lot. For the further information of CCB, please refer to: Http://www.ccb.com/portal/en/home/index.html

Digital Camera

It is a pity that there is no mainland company has the CCD technology of digital camera. The factories which produce the digital camera in mainland are invested by only Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese. So the mainland manufacturers do not export digital camera. This is rare.

Almost all the famous brands, like Canon, Sony, Pantax, Panasonic, Olympus, Casio, Fuji, and Samsung, have factories in mainland China. But there is some Taiwan manufacturers, too. They are Premier and Mento Media.

Tools for drawing charts

This Website is impressive. It is on all kinds of charts. Unfortunately, it is only in Chinese.

http://www.best4c.cn/jsp/index.html?language=zh&isLogin=false

Window Films Website

This website specilize in everything on the window films market in China.
http://www.windowfilms.net.cn

Mineral Fiber Ceiling

In China the biggest ceiling manufacturer is BNBM (Beijing New Building Materials Public Limited Company. It has its own brand of Dragon, which has the biggest market share in north China. It owns Suzhou Tianfeng building materials limited company, which has a big share of export from China.

ARMSTRONG has a factory in China, too, which has a big share in South China.

At the same time, there are a lot of ceiling manufacturers in Hebei, China. Most of them produce the ceilings by hand, except for some bigger manufacturers like Jinglian, Wangxing, Dingxing, Amostrong, etc.

In general, the Hebei manufacturers and Suzhou Tianfeng cover most of the market share of export from China in the mineral fiber ceiling tiles.