Hong Kong or Shanghai?

From: The China Business Review | Date: May 1, 2004| Author: Overholt, William H | Copyright information

Where will you make your next corporate home? It may depend on your size and sector.

Shanghai is the flavor of the year. Membership in the American Chamber of Commerce (Amcharm) Shanghai is growing explosively, while Armcham Hong Kong membership is declining. Fifty-five multinational companies established regional headquarters in Shanghai since new rules were passed in August 2003. Shanghai is the New Thing, a central symbol of the Chinese economic miracle.

But Hong Kong already...

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