China Regional Service

The China Regional Service offers you the most comprehensive analysis on China's national economy, 31 regions, and 92 top-tier cities. We collaborate with the China Economic Monitoring and Analysis Center (CEMAC), a unit of China's official data agency, to bring you the deepest and broadest regional databanks available from any source. The data is complemented by our quarterly 20-year forecasts for each region and our daily analysis that highlights key issues and developments and their likely impact on the business climate in each of the regions.

Subscribers to the China Regional Service receive:

• Same-Day Analysis of economic, political, and regulatory developments
• Risk and investment climate analysis
• Regional forecasts and historical data
• Regional profiles
• Access to our China experts

Benefits:

• Understand the economic and political relationships between China's national and regional levels
• Identify region- and sector-specific risk and opportunities
• Determine optimal outsourcing relationships and potential export partners
• Predict and meet growing consumer demands
• Identify the drivers of growth for each region
• Gauge the competitive threat of Chinese exports to your markets

Same-Day Analysis

• Daily analysis of key economic, political, and regulatory developments
• In-country coverage by Beijing-based analysts

Risk Analysis

• Individual provincial risk ratings covering:
  • Politics and security
  • Economic conditions
  • Investment climate
  • Operational issues
  • Infrastructure
• Updated risk scores as events warrant

Regional Forecasts and Historical Data

• Data Source-CEMAC (China Economic Monitoring and Analysis Center)
• 30-year outlook for 22 key indicators with quarterly forecast updates for 31 regions
• Historical city data for 92 top-tier cities
• Historical data on sector details, land prices, rent, and fiscal balances
• Extensive annual historical data and key monthly indicators for 31 regions

Regional Profiles

• Economic conditions
• Investment climate
• Operational issues
• Infrastructure
• Politics/security

China Regional Service's Sample Chapter: Shanghai-Jiangsu Province

Excerpts:

• China Regional Service forecasts that China's Shanghai-Jiangsu "Mega-Province" will be Asia's third Largest Economy by 2017, behind only Japan and India
• Shanghai-Jiangsu will surpass the Netherlands (2011), Australia and Brazil (2014), Mexico (2016), Korea (2017), Canada (2019), and Spain (2023)
• By 2025, Shanghai-Jiangsu will be the 9th largest economy in the world, following closely by China's two coastal provinces, Guangdong and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei
• Two other Chinese provinces, Guandong and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, forecasted to surpass South Korea by 2021
• The Chinese government set up economic zones in the 1980s in all three of these regions to encourage foreign direct investment and international trade
• All three regions are along the coast of China or, in the case of Guangdong, bordering Hong Kong

IHS Global Insight's Greater China experts, located in Boston, London, Beijing, and Shanghai, provide you with superior coverage of China. In addition, our Greater China Team derives support from IHS Global Insight's Industry and Consumer Markets expertise to further enhance its analysis of business conditions in China.

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