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White still being lagged significantly behind the coast areas, the six central provinces of Anhui, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Shanxi have seen foreign investment flooding in over the past years, up more than 50% from 2006. The economies of the six provinces now make up 20% of the national capital.
Though the region still needs further reform and opening up, increased investment in infrastructure, favourable government policies, and rising consumer incomes are still driving many branches out of the hyper-developed coastal regions and moving towards inland.
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Compared with their counterparts abroad, Chinese software enterprises suffer from product duplication, insufficient capital, low technical levels, and a lack of policy support, which contributed to restricted development.
Recently, however, there has been some good news.
China’s Ministry of Information Industry is issuing a new policy to encourage the development of the software industry, in particularly, creating favourable conditions for listed software company and chip manufacturing enterprises to promote technological innovation. Therefore, some overseas companies have showed goodwill to cooperate with Chinese ones.
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The big global automakers — General Motors, Honda, Toyota, Ford and Volkswagen are ait already to be seen in China and all corporates are joint ventures with local companies,
The Chinese Government, with a view to establish a strong domestic industry, strives to swap the access to domestic market with technology transfers by means of joint ventures.
While China is looking for development of both strong domestic and international players, foreign investors in China are hoping to capture the huge potential of the domestic market.
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There are a variety of reasons for international trade to take place. It can occur between countries if their demands or preferences differ from each other.
Individuals in different countries may have different preferences or demands for various products. The Chinese are likely to demand more rice than Americans: Canadians may demand more beer, the Dutch more wooden shoes, and the Japanese more fish, even if they all faced the same prices.
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In the Forex market you are basically betting one currency against another and If you have already looked into this market, you will see that you are looking to buying or selling currencies in pairs, for example, the U.S. Dollar against the British Pound, or the U.S. Dollar against the Euro.
There is an unlimited combination of these currencies but there are common pairs, more volatile than others(i.e., there will be more price movement during the trading period, up and down).