As the most competitive auto market with 102 existing brands, China is welcoming its 103rd brand—Baojun, meaning “treasured horse”. This new line of inexpensive passenger cars is a joint venture between General Motors, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation and Wuling Motors. The Baojun brand will be sold at Wuling dealerships throughout China.

From the New York Times: “For decades, locals in this frigid outpost south of Siberia shaved and chipped and hacked away at big blocks of ice to create China’s most popular wintertime tourist attraction. Rising among the barren trees, the sculptures of the Harbin Ice Lantern Festival took the shapes of iconic Chinese monuments: the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, and sacred Buddhist Mountains.

People like free things. They feel obligated to take items given for free as long as the items have some value. And if the free items are seen to have very large value, then people are willing to even drive to the source and wait in line just to get the free items.

Christian Dior, in partnership with the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, brought glamor and international celebrities to the red carpet gala dinner that has marked the opening of the “Christian Dior and Chinese Artists” exhibition on November 16th.

Every day hundreds of different medias report about what is happening in the world – so many in fact that it is difficult choosing a magazine over another to get own share of sound information. Winning market share is definitely an issue for every business but it seems that magazine brands in the US are catching readers’ attention by using quite unexpected branding strategies.

In the last couple of years, the market for luxury brands in China has changed dramatically. Gone are the times when luxury flagship stores barely made any profits and stayed in the country just to ensure presence. Today, Chinese consumers count for 10% of the world’s luxury purchasers either in or out of mainland China, and it is quite likely that this percentage will continue to rise along with the rise of income and retail spending levels...

Building up on the Olympics exposure, Lenovo is lining up new desktop brands side by side with laptops ranges to strengthen its position in India.

In fact the Chinese personal computer manufacturer is expanding its desktop line in direct competition with popular budget PCs from Dell and HP by developing its consumer-focused IdeaCentre series.