BusinessWeek on “China’s Rising Leaders”
September 21st, 2007 by AdministratorDexter Roberts and Chi-Chu Tschang wrote in the Oct. 1 issue of BusinessWeek about “China’s Rising Leaders.”
The article discusses a new class of leaders coming up through the ranks in China’s government and the impact this group will have on local and foreign businesses. From the article:
Until now, China’s leaders have “had a definite discomfort in dealing with the outside,” says Kent D. Kedl, a China hand for the past two decades and now general manager of Technomic Asia, a Shanghai-based market strategy consulting firm. Most are career bureaucrats in their 60s who studied hard sciences or engineering. Few have graduate degrees and some have no higher education at all. Mao Zedong’s comrades-in-arms are long gone. But Hu’s cohort is from the first post-revolutionary generation and has not shed all the remnants of the old ideology.
Read the rest of the article from BusinessWeek.
