Word: yibo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chinese government, and many carmakers are already heavily backed by the state, which could aid to keep local champions afloat through the downturn. This week Chery, one of the country's most successful domestic automakers, received a $1.5 billion loan from China's Export Import Bank. Jin Yibo, Chery's spokesman, says that the loan isn't government aid or any sort of bailout, but a "business deal" between Chery and the bank. However the money is characterized, it will be a boost to Chery's operations. Jin says the funds will be used for export-related projects, such...
...DIED. Bo Yibo, 98, last surviving member of China's politically influential Eight Immortals; in Beijing. The group of veteran Communist Party leaders, purged during the Cultural Revolution, was elevated to top positions in the '80s and '90s under Deng Xiaoping. Although a conservative who supported the crackdown on Tiananmen Square protesters, Bo steadfastly embraced Deng's financial reforms--which shifted China toward a market economy--and helped successfully fend off Marxist hard-liners determined to regain economic control...
...some time, it was simply a given that eBay would take China by storm as the online marketplace exploded, that it would be, as Bear Stearns analyst Robert Peck puts it, a "layup." In 1999, Shao Yibo, a Harvard Business School graduate, started EachNet, an e-commerce company, in China. Shao's site openly aped eBay in style and content, effectively screaming "buy me" at the San Jose, California, giant. In 2002 eBay complied, paying $30 million for a third of the company and taking the rest for an additional $150 million the following year. This, arguably, was a hefty...
...ranks to become a "remarkable proletarian revolutionary," as state news agency Xinhua called him. Following his appointment as a general in the People's Liberation Army in 1955, he served on the party's Central Committee and was admitted to the Beijing politburo in 1982. His death makes Bo Yibo, father of current Commerce Minister Bo Xilai, the last living "Immortal...
Elected to the Alpha Chapter were Baker, ScottD. Bredall '95, Andrew Chen '95, Chieh T. Cheung'95, Jeremy A. Dauber '95, Robert B. Forster '95,Harocopos, Rajesh S. James '95, Irwin H. Lee '95,Yibo Shao '95, Benjamin C. Sun '95 and Craig D.Weissman '95. Dauber is a Crimson editor...
| 1 |