How to do business in China

By Don Joe Source: http://realbusiness.co.uk/don_joe/how_to_do_business_in_china The easiest way to make people think you’re smart is to talk about China. Discussing the global economy?... and then there’s China. Discussing Western philosophy?... and then there’s China. There’s some unwritten dinner-party law that everyone has to have an opinion on China. To save you from having to read Confucius and improving your maths, here are my basic principles of what you need to know to do business in China: 1. If someone offers you a delicacy, politely refuse citing an allergy. When something is a delicacy, it means that local people don’t eat it most of the time. There is a reason that Kentucky Fried Chicken is more popular than Kentucky Fried Jellyfish, KF Insect and KF Mystery Meat. No-one gets offended...
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Ordinance no 14 – Financial measures for regulating State aid to farmers, starting with 2010

On January 30th 2010 was published Ordinance No. 14 issued by the Romanian Government on the financial arrangements for regulating State aid to farmers, starting with 2010. From the agricultural business enterprises investments, agri trading or livestock farming  to agri associations or consolidation (aggregation) of land all these areas are well covered by different types of State aids....
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Farm structure survey in Romania 2007 – Eurostat

64% of Romanian farms produced mainly for own consumption This Statistics in Focus is part of a series of country-specific publications on the results of the Farm Structure Survey (FSS) 2007. It provides a brief but nevertheless comprehensive insight into the farm structure in Romania. 3 931 350 agricultural holdings were recorded in Romania in the Farm Structure Survey 2007 (7.6% fewer than in 2005).The average area per holding increased by 31 % reaching 11.0 ha. * * * Due to the different coverage of the FSS across Member States, the total number of farms is not comparable between countries. This is why the present analysis, including Tables 1-4 and the graphs focus on holdings of at least one European Size Unit (ESU). See the methodological notes for more information on the concept of ESU. In 2007, around 22% of the agricultural holdings (866 700) had an economic size of at least 1 ESU, compared with 1 236 000 (which represent 29% of the holdings...
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