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| "The secret to success in China? Simple: Find out where China are going, and get there first." - modified from Mark Twain |
| As a natural gas explorer and developer, pipeline builder, and gas and heating equipment or appliance manufacturer, if you plan to invest or sell you products to China, you had better do enough homework to save your cost and guarantee your high successful rate. At first you need to have a general picture about doing business in China to avoid a strategic mistake. |
| Many international companies are optimistic for China market opportunities in the early 1990s. They were rushed to make investment and hoped to take a piece of share in this largest and last market in the world. After this hot period, their optimum was replaced by realism. Before they came to China, they did not do market research and other homework. Now, they realize it is not easy to do business in China as the local regulation and policy changed frequently; the local partner was incapable; and no profit can be predicted in a near term. Why do some companies are successful but many companies are unsuccessful in China? Are there insider secrets to be successful in China? Before we give you the answers, we would like to share some basic secrets with you. |
| Is China a 1.3-billion-people market? |
| Not exactly! This concept misleads many international investors. Although China has 1.3 billion populations, it is not a 1.3-billion-people market. Especially for some high price products, the Chinese market is like a medium or large size western European country. The basic reason is that agriculture population takes 70% of China's total population and only contributes 15% of China's total GDP. |
| There are many different markets in China |
| As economic development, environment, culture, living habit, and even language are varied in different areas of China, so the market is also different among the provinces and even within each province. The coastal provinces such as Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai City, and Beijing City are 5 to 10 times richer than the other areas of China. Therefore China is not a single uniformed market and is more like Europe consisted of many separated markets. A business strategy may be successful in one province but may not work in the other province. |
| The market in China is changing rapidly and you should be there at right time |
| Timing is very important. Within two years, Beijing, the capital city of China, became number one city in the world with about 3,000 CNG and LPG buses. During this two-year period, some early comers of clean fuel engine and refueling station manufacturers took a fat profit from this clean fuel vehicle project. Since then, many domestic and international manufacturers has been entering this market and facing more severed competition. You had better prepare to enter the market during the government's planning stage. When the market is going to be ready you should move in quickly. But if you enter the market too early, you may loss your confidence, withdraw from the market, and miss the opportunities. To be a right timer, you need to have a market research at early time. |
| Who do you compete with in China? |
| In Europe, you may mainly compete with European and some American and Japanese; in U.S., you may mainly compete with American and some European and Japanese; in Japan, you may mainly compete with Japanese and some American and European. But in China, you compete with everybody and face stronger local Chinese competitors. Counterfeiting is a headache problem for many foreign manufacturers as the Chinese manufacturers are copying their products quickly to compete with them. Matsushita, a Japanese microwave oven manufacturer find Chinese-brand microwave ovens sold in the department stores are identical to those Matsushita produces at its Shanghai plant and even the mistake in the ovens is also identical. |
| Who you know is much more important than what you know? |
| Yes it is true at most time but not at every time. Most foreign businesspersons in China know a Chinese word, "Guanxi", which means who you know or the contacts you have can play a key role to help you to accomplish your business smoothly in China. "Guanxi" is important everywhere in the world but not like the Chinese to give it too much emphasis. Sometime you may fall in the "Guanxi" trap and confuse yourself. When you try to get in the Chinese market, many people will come to you and tell you they have good "Guanxi" and can win the deal for you. For one target company, one person may told you he has "Guanxi" with manager A; another person may told you he has "Guanxi" with manager B; and on and on. At the end you don't know who is decision maker. This kind of harassment often makes you confuse and even upset. After hiring these people with good "Guanxi", many companies finally found out that they are not only incapable but also screw up their business. Some companies give up the open bid for a project because they think they have no "Guanxi" even the bid actually is fair and open. Please don't give up. You can contact your target company directly without referrals and you will surprise that you can establish so many useful "Guanxi" by yourself. What you need to do is just finding the address book and sending the letter and brochure to introduce yourself. |
| How to access China gas and heating business efficiently? |
| After you get broad and general secrets about doing business in China, you need to narrow down your focus to your niche market. |
| As a gas developer, LPG exporter, and gas equipment manufacturer, you may concern: |
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| As the heating system in China will have a significant change so it will create a tremendous opportunity for the heating equipment manufacturers. As a heating equipment manufacturer, you need to know more specific secrets to market your product in China, such as: |
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| Now, we start to answer your questions and reveal more secrets for China natural gas and heating business market. |
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| How do you make a right investment and successfully sell your products in the Chinese gas and heating business markets? You are about to find the problem-solving secrets in the following categories: (1) market research, (2) contact information, statistics, and technical codes, (3) bring buyers to knock your door without costs. |
| Market research is your first step homework to access the Chinese market |
| To benefit international natural gas explorer, developer, pipeline builder, and manufacturer, as well as heating equipment manufacturers, we provide a series of comprehensive market reports as following to save your time and costs of doing your market researches. Please click the title for details. |
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| You may wonder how we can provide these market researches you can not find anywhere else? The most important reason is that our employees and partners have worked in China gas and heating business for more than a decade, including the government officials, executives, engineers, and researchers in the Chinese gas and heating industries, enterprises and institutions. The information collected for the researches are from the reliable published and unpublished authoritative sources and through interviewing with the related government officials, company executives and engineers, and institution researchers. Please click here to order these reports now. |
| China Gas and Heating Business Yellow Book, Most Recent Statistics, and Technical Code Books are Your Must-Have Bibles to Do Gas and Heating Business Marketing in China |
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| To order the completed gas and heating business contact information in China, please click the following address book titles: |
| The address book of the members of China Gas Association: You can find the address, telephone number, and contact person for more than 1,500 gas distribution companies, gas appliance companies, and related gas institutions in China. |
| The address book of the members of China District Heating Association: You can find the address, telephone number, and contact person for more than 200 heating supply companies, heating equipment companies, co-generation companies, and related heating institutions in China. |
| To get the most recent statistics related to gas and heating business in the each city of China, please click here or the following categories titles: |
| Category 1. LPG Utilization Statistics in the Cities of China |
| LPG Storage Capacity |
| LPG Distribution Pipeline Length |
| LPG Purchase |
| Total LPG Supply |
| Residential LPG Consumption |
| Numbers of Commercial, Small Industrial and Residential LPG Users |
| Numbers of Residential Household LPG Users |
| Population of Using LPG |
| Numbers of LPG Vehicle Refueling Stations |
| Employment |
| Total Revenue |
| Government Subsidies |
| Total Profit and Loss |
| Category 2. Natural Gas Utilization Statistics in the Cities of China |
| Natural Gas Storage Capacity |
| Natural Gas Distribution Pipeline Length |
| Natural Gas Purchase |
| Total Natural Gas Supply |
| Residential Natural Gas Consumption |
| Numbers of Commercial, Small Industrial and Residential Natural Users |
| Numbers of Residential Household Natural Gas Users |
| Population of Using Natural Gas |
| Numbers of Natural Gas Vehicle CNG Refueling Stations |
| Employment |
| Total Revenue |
| Government Subsidies |
| Total Profit and Loss |
| Category 3. Coal Gas Utilization Statistics in the Cities of China |
| Coal Gas Production Capacity |
| Coal Gas Storage Capacity |
| Coal Gas Distribution Pipeline Length |
| Self-made Coal Gas Supply |
| Coal Gas Purchase |
| Total Coal Gas Supply |
| Residential Coal Gas Consumption |
| Numbers of Commercial, Small Industrial, and Residential Coal Gas Users |
| Numbers of Residential Household Coal Gas Users |
| Populations of Using Coal Gas |
| Employment |
| Category 4. Heating Supply Statistics in the Cities of China |
| Steam |
| Total Heating Supply Capacity |
| Co-generation Plant Heating Supply Capacity |
| Boiler House Heating Supply Capacity |
| Actual Total Heating Supply |
| Actual Co-generation Plant Heating Supply |
| Actual boiler House Heating Supply |
| Heating Distribution Pipeline Length |
| Hot Water |
| Total Heating Supply Capacity |
| Co-generation Plant Heating Supply Capacity |
| Boiler House Heating Supply Capacity |
| Actual Total Heating Supply |
| Actual Co-generation Plant Heating Supply |
| Actual boiler House Heating Supply |
| Heating Distribution Pipeline Length |
| Heating Supplied Total Building Square Footage |
| Heating Supplied Residential Building Square Footage |
| Employment |
| Industrial Output Value (or Total Revenue) |
| Government Financial Subsides |
| Total Profit and Loss |
| Category 5. Public Bus, Trolley Bus, and Taxi Statistics in the Cities of China |
| Public Bus and Trolley Bus |
| Total Operated Public Bus and Trolley Bus Numbers |
| Operated Public Bus Numbers |
| Operated Mini Van Numbers |
| Operated Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Bus Numbers |
| Operated LPG Bus Numbers |
| Operated Trolley Bus Numbers |
| Standard Operated Vehicle Numbers |
| Operated Road Network Length |
| Total Public Bus and Trolley Bus Ridership |
| Public Bus Ridership |
| Mini Van Bus Ridership |
| Trolley Bus Ridership |
| Employment |
| Taxi |
| Numbers of Taxi |
| Employment |
| Category 6. China City Population and Infrastructure Statistics |
| Population Density |
| City Maintenance Budget Per Capita |
| Household Percentage of Using Cooking Gas |
| Standard Public Transit Numbers Per 10,000 Persons |
| High Way Area Per Capita |
| High Way Density |
| High Way Density Within Urban Area |
| Household Numbers |
| Population |
| Non-Agriculture Population |
| City Area |
| Urban Area |
| Used Land for City Build-Up |
| Residential Used Land |
| Public Utility Used Land |
| Special Category: Natural Gas, LPG, and Coal Gas Statistics for Selected City Gas Companies in China |
| This statistics is a key primary data source for
natural gas, LPG, and coal gas market strategy analysis in China.
Combined with the above natural gas
utilization, LPG utilization coal gas utilization, heating utilization, and other comprehensive statistics
in each Chinese city, you will get the desired results based on this first hand primary data sources
which you can not find anywhere else. This statistics is based on the accounting and operation data collected from about 100 city gas distribution companies in China. These companies are the representative city gas companies in most provinces in China. The statistics reveal an in-depth data for the city gas company's operation in China and are the must-have supplements for the coal gas, LPG, and natural gas utilization statistics in each city. By this statistics, you can not only find the sensitive accounting and operation data in the city gas companies, you can also get the end-user data, such as prices for coal gas, LPG, and natural gas for residential, commercial, industrial users in the Chinese cities. |
| Part 1: Comprehensive Statistics for Selected City Gas Companies |
| Capital Investment |
| Total Assets |
| Short Term Liability |
| Long Term Liability |
| Owner's Equity |
| Sales Revenue |
| Sales Costs |
| Government Aid |
| Total Profit |
| Profit from Gas Sales |
| Tax |
| Total Salary Paid |
| Average Salary Per Employee |
| Total Employees |
| Retired Employees |
| Gas Pressure Qualified Rate on Gas Appliances |
| Gas Fee Payment Received Rate |
| Heating Value of the Gas Supplied |
| Part 2: Coal Gas Statistics for Selected City Gas Companies |
| Comprehensive Gas Production Capacity |
| Comprehensive Gas Supply Capacity |
| Total Produced Gas |
| Total Purchased Gas |
| Total Gas Supplied |
| Total Gas Sold |
| Residential Gas Usage |
| Industrial Gas Usage |
| Commercial Gas Usage |
| Other Sectors Gas Usage |
| Number of Users |
| Number of Residential Users |
| Number of Industrial Users |
| Number of Other Users |
| Cost of Production |
| Cost of Marketing & Sales |
| Average Cost of Purchasing Gas |
| Gas Price for Residential Users |
| Gas Price for Industrial Users |
| Gas Price for Commercial Users |
| Gas Price for Other Users |
| Length of Distribution Pipelines |
| Part 3: LPG Statistics for Selected City Gas Companies |
| Total LPG Purchase |
| Total LPG Sold |
| Residential Usage |
| Industrial Usage |
| Commercial Usage |
| LPG Vehicle Usage |
| Other Usage |
| Number of Users |
| Number of Residential Users |
| Number of Industrial Users |
| Number of Commercial Users |
| Number of Commercial Users |
| Cost of Marketing & Sales |
| Average Purchase Price |
| Average Sales Price |
| Price for Residential Users |
| Price for Industrial Users |
| Price for Commercial Users |
| Price for LPG Vehicle |
| Price for Other Users |
| LPG Distribution Pipeline Length |
| LPG Pipelines Length in Small Community |
| Number of LPG Bottle Containers |
| Number of LPG Refueling Stations |
| Qualified Rate for LPG Bottling |
| Qualified Rate for LPG Bottle Container Leaking Protection |
| Part 4: Natural Gas Statistics for Selected City Gas Companies |
| Comprehensive Gas Supply Capacity |
| Total Gas Purchased |
| Total Gas Supply |
| Total Gas Sold |
| Residential Gas Usage |
| Industrial Gas Usage |
| Commercial Gas Usage |
| CNG Vehicle Gas Usage |
| Other Gas Usage |
| Costs of Sales & Marketing |
| Number of Users |
| Number of Residential Users |
| Number of Industrial Users |
| Number of Other Users |
| Average Gas Purchase Price |
| Natural Gas Price for Residential Users |
| Natural Gas Price for Industrial Users |
| Natural Gas Price for Commercial Users |
| Natural Gas Price for CNG Vehicle Users |
| Natural Gas Price for Other Users |
| Length of Natural Gas Distribution Pipeline |
| Number of CNG Refueling Stations |
| To order the gas and heating industry codes as in following list for ensuring your equipment to meet the Chinese standards, please send e-mail to: |
| info(a)anser.bc.ca |
| Residential Gas Leaking Alarm CJ 3057 (1996) |
| Gas Valve Test CJ/T3055 (1995) |
| PE Pipe Engineering Regulation CJJ63 (1995) |
| City Underground Pipeline Test CJ61(1994) |
| City Gas Distribution Engineering CJJ33(1989) |
| Gas Water Heating Appliance Test CJJ12 (1986) |
| LPG Automobile Installation QC/T247(1998) |
| CNG Automobile Installation QC/T245(1998) |
| LPG Automobile Test QC/T256(1998) |
| Automobile Test QC/T257(1998) CNG |
| CNG Station Design SY0092(1998) |
| LPG Station Design SY0093(1998) |
| Natural Gas Used for CNG Auto SY/T7546(1996) |
| LPG Used for LPG Automobile SY7548(1998) |
| LPG Steel Storage Bottle Safety SY5853(1993) |
| How to Bring the Chinese Customers to Knock Your Door without Spending Your Marketing Costs? |
| We organize China gas and heating business executives and related government officials to visit North America and Europe to purchase the suitable equipment and to find the cooperation opportunities each year. As most visitors are key decision-makers of the companies, so they can make purchase decision during the visit. Many manufacturers successfully sell their products and catch the valuable customers through these visits without spending marketing costs. The companies we arranged to visit include: |
| Natural gas exploration and development companies |
| Natural gas transmission and distribution companies |
| Natural gas equipment and appliance manufacturers |
| Heating equipment manufacturers |
| Government agencies, associations, and research institutions |
| If you like us to help you to make such arrangement for free, please send us an E-mail: info(a)anser.bc.ca |
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