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News - 02 January 2023

China opens its borders for foreign travellers

Chinese health authorities lift Covid-19 quarantine requirements on international arrivals starting from 8th January 2023, taking one of the country’s biggest steps to ease restrictions since the pandemic began early 2020.

Economic - 30 December 2022

China will show its resilience again in 2023

At the end of 2022, China’s Covid measures have seen drastic changes, with eased local rules regarding nucleic acid testing, full accessibility of public transport and venues and the complete abolishment of the Health Code system.

General - 29 December 2022

Bridging three years of Covid in China

Just after Christmas, as could be expected after the abolishment of the zero-Covid policy, China announced the opening of its borders and the abandonment of the quarantine for foreign travelers from 8 January 2023 onwards.

News - 11 December 2022

KODAS launches its ciders

After almost one and a half years of intense work, KODAS ciders and sparkling wines are on the shelves of the Lzumiya Supermarket chain in China and are available on one of China's biggest eCommerce platforms, Tmall.

Economic - 13 November 2022

Xi leads China into a new era

At the Chinese Party Congress in mid-October, Xi outlined the contours of the Chinese future in his speech “The New Era Needs New Development Pattern”.

News - 21 October 2022

Interview with Pascal Coppens

At the occasion of the publication of his second book about China, called ‘Can we trust China?’, we interviewed Pascal Coppens, a Belgian tech-entrepreneur who lived and worked in China for 20 years.

Blog - 28 September 2022

Opportunities in Inner Mongolia for foreign companies

Inner Mongolia is an Autonomous Region located in the north of China, stretching about 2400 kilometers long from east to west and with a maximum span of more than 1700 kilometers from north to south, accounting for 12.3% of the total land area of China.

Blog - 22 September 2022

Belgian trade balance with China

According to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade, Belgian exports to China accounted for EUR 8.0 billion in 2021. China is Belgium’s 3rd biggest export country outside of Europe, taking up 1.8% of total Belgian exports, behind the United States (7.1%) and Japan (2.1%).

Blog - 16 September 2022

China’s Economic Outlook 2nd half of 2022

According to the World Bank, China’s economy is projected to slow down to 4.3% in the year 2022 (from an official GDP growth target of around 5.5%).

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