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A news source on China venture capital and private equity trends.

PE Hub is reporting that Jonathan Mandel, the managing director of Morgan Stanley's Hong...

Cybernaut Investment (China partner of VC fund New Enterprise Associates) just sat up two yuan denominated VC funds in China this month with a total value of 650 million yuan - or about $95.24 million. That, according to PE Hub.

The funds will work in cooperation with the government of eastern China's Zhejian province and will focus on clean energy and health care projects.


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All the way back in July, Richard Brubaker over at All Roads Lead to China suggested that General Motors could become a Chinese-owned company.

...with firms like Anhui Cherry already showing at the Detroit Auto Show, and China's obvious desire to be a global player in the auto market, I am beginning to wonder if we are about to see a big 3 auto maker be purchased in whole/ part by a Chinese firm looking t

If the Venture Capital model is broken in the U.S., companies that invest VC funds in China don't seem to have figured it out yet; they're investing faster than ever, according to sources like Red Herring.

From Ken Schachter's report:

Venture capitalists poured $964 million into 59 funding deals in China in the third quarter, breaking the yearly record set in 2001, according to a new study.

"The basic framework of U.S. policy under an Obama administration will not fundamentally change," said Cui Liru, president of the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, in Beijing today (according to Huffington Post writer Michael Standaert.


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A number of news sources (Reuters, Xinhua) are reporting that Apax Partners plans to open an office in Shanghai by the end of the year.

The Shanghai office would be the Private Equity firms first office in China.


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A number of news sources (International Herald Tribune, Bloomberg, the WSJ) are reporting that China has unveiled $586 billion stimul
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PEHub reported last week on the growing investment in education that private equity firms seem to be making in Asia.


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China Economic Review is reporting that Shanghai's Pudong district is going to get its own venture capital firm.


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The $586 billion stimulus package Beijing announced Sunday was a flop with the markets, at least. Seeking Alpha estimates that the effect of the stimulus package on the stock markets in China "lasted...err...about 12 hours."


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