economic trends

  Westerners of a certain age who follow economic trends in China these days could be forgiven if they’ve had 80s synth-pop tunes stuck in their heads of late. While the Chinese government has been promoting the movement of people towards growing cities in the interior instead of the already bulging megalopolises on the east coast, the explicit economic shift in terms of development dollars and infrastructure projects only started to ramp up last year. As a result, this is a region that is just now taking off. Western brands…