Goodbye 2020, Hello 2021

For the first time no Chinese platform published a Singles' Day total, while instant retail passed RMB 1 trillion. JD.com booked 150 million service orders and brought 7,472 new stores into the campaign. A look at the omni-channel, retail operations and fulfilment roles being repriced — and why paying more does not fill the seat.

Zhang Jun became the first Chinese president of Audi China on 1 November. Three days later 4,142 foreign firms arrive at CIIE in Shanghai. The article examines how far localisation has gone, what has changed in the China general manager brief, and which roles are being repriced as regional headquarters and R&D centres expand.

Chemical raw materials profits rose 49.2% in the first nine months of 2026 while Chinese POE plants came onstream one after another. The constraint is no longer capital or catalyst but the polymerization process engineers who can commission a line.

Nonferrous profits rose 79.7% in the first nine months while global mine output headed for its first annual decline since 2017. Sinomine alone is hiring 15 expatriate metallurgical engineers. Zambia's local content rules are now law, and they raise the capability threshold