Royal Bank of Scotland said its chairman and chief executive in China, Sherry Liu, resigned from her post.
"Starting from last year, Chinese corporate bonds, which were mostly sold to emerging-market bond funds in the past, have become much more appealing to U.S.-based bond investors, " said Fang Fang, vice chairman of Asia investment banking and chief executive of China investment banking at J.
Apple expects China to overtake the US as its biggest sales market, the company's chief executive has told China's state news agency.
"Our investments in China are generating strong results and China makes an important contribution" to regional earnings, said Andrew Au, chief executive officer for Citigroup in China.
"China has 10, 000 hotels but less than 200 with any sort of national brand, " says Super 8's China chief executive, Mitchell Presnick.
Sales "are currently up 17 percent quarter on quarter, so we think we'll do a little bit better than the market (average) this year, " said Kevin Wale, GM China chief executive officer.
"In the next ten years I won't be able to export, " says Philip Murtaugh, chief executive of GM's China Group.
Another big market, said 3Com Chief Executive Bruce Claflin , is China, owing to Cisco's lawsuit against Huawei charging copyright and patent infringements.
Henry Paulson , Goldman's outbound chief executive, was also a China expert, having visited the country dozens of times in the last few years to meet with government and industry leaders.
Mr Liang is chief executive of Ctrip, one of China's most successful travel companies.
And the chief executive revealed that Chelsea have offered the China national football team the use of their facilities ahead of the 2008 games.
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In October the Nvidia chief executive got his proof when scientists at China's National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin unveiled the Tianhe-1A, the fastest computer on earth.
Now William Rose, formerly McDonald's station chief of a region between India and China, has been dispatched to become the new chief executive for Donatos.
Mr. Dhanin's CP Group is planning to expand Siam Makro throughout Southeast Asia, and even into Pakistan and China, said Korsak Chairasmisak, chief executive of CP ALL at a briefing Tuesday.
Warwick managing director and chief executive Bob Ellis said: "We see China as a great opportunity for our company both in terms of sourcing speciality chemicals for our European distribution businesses and as an emerging market for our detergent additives manufactured in Wales".
The surge has attracted the attention of Apple chief executive Tim Cook, who met with the chairman of China Mobile last week.
"The high-growth Indian market, the third largest in Asia after China and Japan, was a noticeable gap in our network, " says Gavin Darby, Vodafone's chief executive for the U.S., Africa, China and India, who now sits on Bharti's board.
He's chief executive of the eurozone bailout fund and he recently went to China to ask for cash assistance.
Edward Shugrue, chief executive of CMBS investor and servicer Talmage, said Bank of China is one of the large sovereign entities looking for significant U.S. real-estate holdings.
"We are hopeful we can reach a positive conclusion soon and launch a new service that complements our already substantial operations in China, " James Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of Hong-Kong based Star said.
Chief Executive Charles Li is refocusing HKEx to take advantage of expectations that China will become a net exporter of capital as currency restrictions are relaxed, with growing commodities and fixed-income products to diversify away from low-margin cash equities.
Other China attendees at Davos include Shi Zhengrong, chairman and chief executive of solar panel market Wuxi Suntech Power Co.
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Nguyen Thanh Van An, 37, is the chief executive and founder of Internet bookstore Vinabook.com, a clone of China's online bookseller Dangdang.com--itself a version of Amazon.
Trone says he met with Bear Stearns Chief Executive JamesCayneJames Cayne last week, and Cayne indicated that although he saw China as an opportunity, there were plenty of risks to consider.
China's burgeoning energy use is a concern for its chief executive, Fred Kindle.
"As a result of adverse publicity from the poultry supply situation in mid-December, China KFC sales experienced a sharp decline, " David Novak, chief executive of Yum said in a statement.
The chief executive of Seattle, Washington, and the governor of Maryland issued letters of apology to China.
"We see tremendous potential for the Qantas Group in Asia and we are looking forward to working more closely with China Eastern Airlines to deliver on it, " Alan Joyce, Qantas' chief executive officer said.
"China is building about ten screens a day" said Chris Dodd, chairman and chief executive of the association.
The Basic Law makes it clear that China's approval is needed for any change to the method of choosing a chief executive.
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