Wanted: Reliable Chinese Business Data (Part 1 of 2).

Over the last few years, there has been an increasing focus on the business scene in China, which has heated up even more over the past few months. There are several reasons why this is occurring: there's the emergence and continuing growth of the country's new private sector; interest among global corporations in reaching the country's gigantic consumer market; and, most recently, the role of China as a current and future outsourcing destination.

Unfortunately, locating substantive, reliable data on Chinese companies is a major challenge. Although the Chinese governmen