Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC)

Based throughout the world and Hong Kong the HKTDC supports business developing trade with the Chinese market.

HKTDC holds many day conferences world-wide. We would recommend attending one of these conferences to learn more about China and Hong.

HKTDC support businesses looking to trade in Asia. In some cases this supports includes a grant. If visiting Hong Kong arranging a meeting with HKTDC. We always found it to be interesting to understand "first hand" what Hong Kong is developing and HKTDC has an extensive business contact list.

Chinese British Business Council (CBBC)

Based throughout the UK and China the CBBC supports business developing trade with the Chinese market.

Please have a look at their website for ideas and information.

Most countries / cities have supporting councils / organisations for local and international trade. We happy to add appropriate links to these pages. Please email any links you may have for consideration: Request website link

Baidu

Baidu was the Google replacement in China. It filled the gap left in the market by a “block” in China. The issue with Baidu, if there is one, is that you cannot determine in the results which are Ad placements and which listing best matches your results. This is different to Google, where Ads are clearly marked.

Shenma

Shenma believes this is the most interesting development in search engines over the last year. Shenma, part of the Alibaba family, aims to bridge the gap between traditional search engines and e-commerce sites, such as Tmall, JD Buy, Amazon, and other independent online stores. The Chinese search engine market grew by 10% in just over a year (April 2018). With fast market growth, Shenma is gaining traction in the market.

Qihoo

QiHoo360 started in PC security. In part, it could be compared to Norton 360. The significant difference is that it is free of cost and provides access to your PC software data, which is used to make recommendations and display ads. Many Chinese PC users install 360 to protect their PCs/mobiles from hacking, and it has been successful in preventing it. In doing so, when the 360 Search Engine is installed on a PC, its search engine is promoted, similar to how Microsoft used to install its IE browser automatically.

Sogou

Sogou is part of the Tencent software collection. Sogou links to the rest of Tencent's software product range, e.g. QQ and WeChat. Despite this integration with WeChat and QQ, Sogou's growth in the Chinese Search Engine has not occurred. We believe this is due to the increase in use of the Tencent WeChat platform, which contains its own search engine.

Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC)

Based throughout the world and Hong Kong the HKTDC supports business developing trade with the Chinese market.

HKTDC holds many day conferences world-wide. We would recommend attending one of these conferences to learn more about China and Hong.

HKTDC support businesses looking to trade in Asia. In some cases this supports includes a grant. If visiting Hong Kong arranging a meeting with HKTDC. We always found it to be interesting to understand "first hand" what Hong Kong is developing and HKTDC has an extensive business contact list.

Chinese British Business Council (CBBC)

Based throughout the UK and China the CBBC supports business developing trade with the Chinese market.

Please have a look at their website for ideas and information.

Most countries / cities have supporting councils / organisations for local and international trade. We happy to add appropriate links to these pages. Please email any links you may have for consideration: Request website link

Understanding Pinyin (BBC)

There are not PC key boards with Chinese characters available for general typing. The key board would have to be very large to hold the 1000’s of characters required.

While voice recognition and PDAs (mobile and Tablets) enables you to draw the Chinese characters using the standard Latin characters and Pinyin does enable Chinese people to type very fast in Chinese and creates the ability for none Chinese speakers to read Chinese. E.g. many of the road signs in China are written in Chinese and Pinyin.

The BCC website has a few well written pages on Pinyin which in very helpful getting started with the Chinese language.