PetroChina Deep Dive

Stretching back to the 1950s, China has benefited from prolific natural resource deposits. Their ample oil reserves survived multiple administrations and governance systems to eventually land in PetroChina, China's largest domestic producer of crude oil and natural gas . Blessed by nature with easy to extract hydrocarbons, their lifting costs are around just ~$12 per …

Meituan Deep Dive

In the early days of the Internet, when there was a flurry of successful U.S. tech firms absent from China, would you have been above being the one to bring them there?  Wang Xing wasn’t – creating businesses “inspired” by not just Friendster, but Groupon, Facebook and Twitter too, coming to epitomize the term "Chinese …

JD Deep Dive

What could you do with 4 square meters of retail space? Try creating over $100 billion dollars of market value with one of the world's largest retailers. The path would not be easy though, and would require risking it all - multiple times. With just a 4sqm stall in an offbeat Chinese market, after 5 …