These are boom times for sports in China. An increased national focus on health and fitness is coinciding with a big increase in entertainment consumption. And the State Council has set a goal of making the sports industry a 5 trillion yuan ($750 billion) sector by 2025. So stadiums and fields are being built, European […]
过去六个月，企业家、风投资本家和互联网公司普遍陷入沉思：中国数字医疗出了什么问题。近年来创立和获得投资的数字医疗公司多达数千家，大获成功的案例却寥寥无几。
中国的啤酒市场似乎与世界其他地区的啤酒市场一样，由几家大型啤酒公司占领着一系列的区域市场。 但请看下表，你会注意到中国啤酒市场与世界其他地区的市场有一个明显的区别：占据啤酒市场主体的巨头（青岛、燕京和华润雪花啤酒）都是国有企业。
China is inching closer to becoming the world’s largest entertainment market and Hollywood studios are struggling to adapt. Cameos by Chinese film stars are being jammed, often nonsensically, into Western movies. Studio executives are flying in to meet with cash-rich Chinese moguls. And praise for China in Hollywood films has become commonplace. This is increasingly being described as self-censorship. […]
在中国，成功事故总是层出不穷，而医院行业却是一大例外。私立医院大多为小型医院，并且很难赢得公众的信任。公立医院则陈旧不堪，令人仿佛回到1980年。尽管近年来大肆报道，但不论私立和公立医院都没有取得什么进步。在服务、成本和质量方面，几十年来中国医院几乎没有任何改观。
麦当劳中国将80%的股权（确实在推广特许经营）出售给凯雷集团、中信资本和中信集团。这让人联想起百胜中国（肯德基和必胜客的在华业务）近期的业务剥离。 我认为麦当劳此举或将惊动百胜中国。原因如下：
北京即将成为一座容纳1亿人口的超大城市，这是一个非常了不起的故事。本文将分享有关北京现状和未来的一些看法。 作为超大城市，北京的经济早已大放异彩
之前，我探讨了嘉士伯和达能如何在中国遭遇最初的失败，以及嘉士伯如何卷土重来大获成功。这也证明在中国，一时的失败不一定是永久的。 本文将用另外两个例子说明“败走中国后应该做什么”。这次是关于汽车企业的。我认为，福特在中国的发展故事相当具有启发性。但是，首先让我们将目光投向菲亚特，它的经历更具警示作用。
*The following is an excerpt from our new One Hour China Contrarian Book (which is available here.). “Jonathan Woetzel (McKinsey & Co) and I have written three speed-read China books together. In the latest one, we have put together a collection of our essays that basically make four main contrarian points. These main points are: […]
*The following is an excerpt from our One Hour China Consumer Book (which is available here.). “This story starts in 1999 and it centers around a Hong Kong native and long-time Carlsberg employee named Sunny Wong. Sunny joined Carlsberg as a sales manager in Hong Kong in 1987. He rose through the ranks and eventually […]