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Understanding Trial Spots

If there is one thing which most western companies coming into China miss out on is the idea of “trial spots”, or as they are called in Chinese 试点。 So what is it? Basically, it’s a city, place, province or region which is used to t... ...full story at China Vortex

from China Vortex on Tue, Oct 21 2008

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