There have been a number of recent regulatory developments concerning finance lease companies in China.

Mick Adams, a former professional engineer, came to China in 2002, and has been working for Somerley in Shanghai since 2009.

In the following report Murtaza Syed, Deputy Resident Representative of the International Monetary Fund in China, examines the myriad challenges to China’s programme for economic reform.

Progress in China’s capital markets is far from satisfactory, falling well short of China’s economic developmental needs, the expectations of policy designers and indeed the market itself.

There are certain generally-accepted views about the Chinese economy that are not entirely correct which can lead to misunderstandings about the market potential for European companies operating in China.

There are finally signs that the eurozone is beginning to regain some strength, however, there is still some way to go.

Driven by its ambition to play a more dominant role in the world economy, make the renminbi more convertible and remain attractive to foreign investment, China has been taking steady steps

China Development Bank reinvented the rules of financing for local government projects, before rolling this model out to domestic Chinese companies