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17/09/2013

ET-Gate negotiated a join venture with a Chinese and a Latin American corporations to exploit a mine and build up a production plant in Latin America.

05/09/2013

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05/09/2013

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31/07/2013

The role of in

In doing business in China, I have noticed the increasing number of women who are present at business meetings, not as entrepreneurs but as key members of Chinese management. It is interesting to me that there may be a trend taking place in China that is including more women in management roles in…

15/07/2013

This is part of our work!

What to check during a China factory inspection

28/06/2013

Good weather is coming so families and friends eat and chill outside. Et-Gate has sourced many different outdoor dinning sets for European brands.

25/06/2013

China's companies are failing to find the high-skilled workers they need, while individuals find themselves ill-prepared for the jobs that are available.

18/06/2013

Chinese telecoms giant, Huawei, will hold its first global product launch, hoping to capture market share from the industry-leaders Apple and Samsung in the highly competitive smartphone market.

The Chinese telecoms giant, Huawei, is heating up the already highly competitive global smartphone industry with a product launch in London.

14/06/2013

Those are some of the dresses we have sourced for La Sibella; a danish faishon design firm. Which one do you like the most?

11/06/2013

Video: "The rise of the Generation-2 consumer"

Articles, reports, surveys, interviews, and interactives covering China’s rising consumer class

10/06/2013

HAPPY DUAN WU JIE!!

Duan wu jie also known as Dragon Boat Festival is one of the oldest holidays in China, said to date back nearly 2,500 years to the Warring States Period.
It is held the fifth day of the fifth month each lunar year, and has several possible origins. By far the most popular tale is that of Qu Yuan.

The Legend:

Qu Yuan was a minister of the state of Chu, but when Chu aligned with the increasingly powerful Qin (the Terracotta Army, before they were terracotta), Qu was dubbed a trader and sent into exile. It was during his exile that he wrote what is largely considered China’s first great poetry.
When the Qin dynasty eventually conquered Chu, legend has it that Qu, out of distress or protest, waded into a river with a large rock and drowned.
The custom of eating zòng zi (a reed-wrapped triangle of glutinous rice, see photo above) is said to come from attempts made by the villagers to send Qu Yuan food at the bottom of the river. Because the fish would eat the regular grains of rice, the zongzi was wrapped and made denser to secure its journey to the bottom of the river. Variants of the legend also state that the zongzi were in fact used to “bribe” the fish and evil spirits into leaving Qu Yuan’s body be.
The dragon boat races that have become the hallmark of the holiday in Chinese communities around the world, is to commemorate the rush of the villagers in their boats to search for Qu’s body.

09/06/2013