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| Left: Our tour group enjoyed touring the headquarters of our Chinese real estate services company. Right: While in Hong Kong, I got the opportunity to meet John Yen, the manager of the new QDII mutual fund for China Merchant Securities' Hong Kong branch. |
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| Top: The exterior of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange building. The Shenzhen Stock Exchange is one of Mainland China's two major exchanges. Bottom Left: The skyline of Shenzhen, an important economic center for China and one of the greatest boomtowns in the history of mankind. Bottom Right: Our China Investing Tour Group took a tour of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Workers rolled out a red carpet for our arrival! |
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| Top Left: Me with Ms. Hsu, the accomplished CFO of China Strategy's successful medical device manufacturer. Top Right: Ms. Hsu was kind enough to pose for a picture with our China Investing Tour Group. Bottom Left: Monitoring a tough patient in the company's showroom. Bottom Right: Me in the showroom of our medical manufacturer with Lisa Li, the head of investment relations for the company. |
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| Left: Our China Investing Tour Group listens to a presentation given by John Ho, the research director of China Merchant Securities, which is one of the top stock brokerage firms in Mainland China. Right: The entire tour group enjoyed our visit to China Merchant Securities. |
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| Left: Me with my wife and children in Shanghai. Right: Frances, our consumer trends analyst for China Strategy, poses for a picture. |
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| Robert with a reporter from one of China's leading financial newspapers. She interviewed him during his recent trip to Shanghai. |
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| Left: The glass-enclosed kitchen of Robert's favorite Sichuan restaurant, South Beauty. Right: Robert enjoying his meal at South Beauty. His dinner that night included asparagus on a bed of ice served sashimi style, spicy mushrooms, prime beef on stone, pan seared Chinese foie gras, wintermelon soup, and hot banana caramel dessert. His table came with a nice view of the Bund. |
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| Left: Robert hard at work in his hotel room. Right: The view from Robert's hotel room in Beijing. As you can see, air pollution is a big problem there. |
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| Tourism is now a growth industry in China. The famous terra cotta warriors near Xian are a great example of the shift we're seeing. During my first visit there six years ago, the tourists were mostly from other countries. I took these pictures when I returned there this past October and found that the tourists were mostly Chinese. |
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| Robert visiting the Sands Casino in Macau. |
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| Left: The Sands lit up at night. Right: The Hsu family during the last holiday season. |
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| Halloween 2005 in Shanghai. |
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Left: Robert meets with Tom Sun, Motorola's Chief China Representative. Right: Online gaming is incredibly popular in China. This is a student cybercafe in Beijing at midnight...and it's full!
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