{"id":359577,"date":"2026-02-27T19:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/359577\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T19:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:42:13","slug":"as-chinas-firms-go-global-foreign-expertise-is-becoming-a-hot-commodity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/359577\/","title":{"rendered":"As China\u2019s firms go global, foreign expertise is becoming a hot commodity"},"content":{"rendered":"

With domestic profits narrowing and production capacity expanding, China\u2019s firms are continuing to widen their overseas footprints in search of new, more lucrative markets. In this series<\/a>, we examine China Inc.\u2019s next phase of \u201cgoing global\u201d and the complex, challenging international environment its companies have chosen to enter.<\/p>\n

It is the middle of the night in Dongguan, one of China\u2019s biggest export hubs, but Peng Biao is still editing videos.<\/p>\n

In the footage, a factory owner from the city steps off a plane and greets a Bangladeshi client, before launching into a discussion about the purpose of his trip in slightly hesitant English.<\/p>\n

The camera is a bit shaky, but Peng says that gives the scene a more authentic feel. Minutes later, she will upload the video to Facebook, YouTube and TikTok, with artificial intelligence automatically generating English voice-overs and subtitles.<\/p>\n

Peng has found a lucrative niche over the past few years helping companies in China\u2019s southern factory belt expand their overseas client bases. Her studio now works with more than a dozen firms in the region, filming videos for them, managing their overseas social media accounts and connecting them with international influencers.<\/p>\n

Her business is part of a broader shift quietly unfolding across China\u2019s manufacturing heartlands. With Chinese producers facing slowing growth<\/a> and intense competition at home, many are seeking to ramp up their overseas sales<\/a> \u2013 and that is creating a huge amount of work for a range of contractors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With domestic profits narrowing and production capacity expanding, China\u2019s firms are continuing to widen their overseas footprints in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[291,167833,1793,79,381,167832,5214,118203,179,18,4893,1015,877,167836,4693,19,17,167834,167835,1150,121],"class_list":["post-359577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-ai","tag-bangladeshi","tag-beijing","tag-business","tag-china","tag-china-vietnam-industrial-service-alliance","tag-chinese","tag-dongguan","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-facebook","tag-gao-zhendong","tag-guangdong","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-liu-kaiming","tag-peng-biao","tag-tiktok","tag-youtube"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116144304763050321","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}