Corporate APAC Desk briefs, Country radar notes and sector signals
European crisis and Japanese OEM losses/decline; in Korea Chinese registrations overtook Japanese brands for the first time.
The quarter’s index distinctive feature: emerging-company resilience gap vs Western peers in steel, autos and finance.
Chinese car share in Europe >10%; Chery/BYD/SAIC/Geely build or buy capacity to bypass EU tariffs.
🇨🇳🚛🔋 China is accelerating the transition of freight transport to new energy sources The PRC has presented a plan for a large-scale transition to a new stage in the development of the commercial transport market: by 2030, 40% of new heavy trucks (weighing over 12 tons) in the country should be…
📈 Development zones in China The high dynamics of China’s economic growth is largely due to the large-scale use of development zones (开发区) - territories with special tax, customs and administrative regimes, which have become an effective instrument of economic policy...
🏮The Russian Trade Mission in China presents a new section “Notes on Chinese business culture.” In the interiors of Chinese offices and commercial enterprises, an image of a bearded man with a red face is often found. This is Guan Yu (Guan Gong, Guan Di) - the famous commander of the era...
🇨🇳💄Current trends in the Chinese cosmetics market 🔺 General dynamics Between 2020 and 2025, retail sales of cosmetic products in China increased from 410.1 to 465.9 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of about 2.6%. By the end of 2026, it is expected to reach the level...