SIM-only plans are simple. You pay for minutes, texts, and data. You do not pay for a phone you already own. That can cut your bill, often by a lot. You keep your current device and your number. You get…

A sweltering afternoon in Hong Kong. Julian Gaertner is sitting in the air-conditioned conference room of the Cyberport business park and is explaining the advantages of innovative language exchange. After years of struggling with Chinese, the young entrepreneur with German…

LinkedIn or Xing? Social networks have so far hardly crossed the minds of young Chinese applying for a job in Germany. This is particularly surprising because most young Chinese use social media channels very intensively. Career advisors like Jochen Mai…

When it comes to innovative German start-up companies, there are currently three names in particular doing the rounds: Auctionata, an online auction platform that now operates internationally; the e-scooter start-up eMio; and Gusti Leder, a company from Rostock that sells…

At least since its brilliant IPO on September 19, 2014, Alibaba has been on everyone’s lips in Germany, too. Until now, the leading German media had mainly associated the Hangzhou-based company with product counterfeits and cheap goods from the Far…

AHK visit, Barcamp, and Skype conferences I look back on a successful time in China. In addition to my work as a trainer on behalf of the China Academy and my work as a freelancer for ad customers, I have…

The number of Chinese people who buy products online has increased dramatically in the past five years. As China Daily reported this week, sales increased more than twelvefold between 2010 and 2015. The increase was particularly strong in rural regions.…

Training courses and seminars on China topics such as tax law, compliance, or intercultural management have been offered more and more frequently by training institutes and universities for some time now. However, a full-day workshop that deals exclusively with social…

The last subway is back in the depot and anyone who wants to visit one of the numerous bars or get home needs a taxi. Those who rely on Uber are usually out of luck. In contrast to Western countries,…

When new data on internet usage was published in July, even experts were surprised: 388 million Chinese prefer to use their cell phones, 380 million a PC. One group of the population is primarily responsible for the boom in mobile…