{"id":146184,"date":"2023-06-27T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ieseg.fr\/?post_type=news&#038;p=146184"},"modified":"2025-09-10T11:39:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:39:40","slug":"doing-business-in-china","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.ieseg.fr\/en\/news\/doing-business-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing business in post-Covid China: an interview with Laurie Ann Underwood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to the French Chamber of Commerce in China (CCI France Chine), <strong>France had more than 2,100 subsidiary companies employing close to 445,000 people in 2022, making it the \u2018first European investor in China\u2019 in terms of the number of companies<\/strong>. The pandemic and China\u2019s zero-Covid policy had a strong impact on international companies working in (or with companies based in) China. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laurie Ann Underwood, a faculty member at I\u00c9SEG and an author of several books on doing business in China, explains how the business environment has changed since the zero Covid policy ended. 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