Shaun Rein is the founder and managing director of the China Market Research Group, a strategic market intelligence firm.

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"It is an absolute nightmare, " said Shaun Rein, whose consulting firm, China Market Research Group, employs about 20 analysts in the country.

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Shaun Rein is the founder and managing director of the China Market Research Group, a strategic market intelligence firm focused on China.

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Stanford professor Michael Spence, Nobel laureate in economics, and Shaun Rein, founder and managing director of China Market Research Group (CMR), both told me that China might very well exceed Japan to become the second-largest consumer market in the world.

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According to China observer Shaun Rein, the country is already in a labor shortage, which began during the Great Recession, as many American and European companies stepped up investment in China to offset a sales slow-down in their home markets.

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