According to Adam Roseman and the ARC Investment Partners newsletter, investment in water facilities located in Chinese cities is on the rise.  From 2011 to 2015, they expect these investments to be at least 500 billion to 600 billion yuan, as a senior expert from China’s Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development recently said.

China has, at the moment, about 4000 water plants. The technology at these, however, is not advanced at the moment, as reported by Shao Yisheng, the vice dean of the China Urban Planning and Design Institute.

During the country’s 12^th five-year plan, they plan to upgrade about 2000 water plants. Another 2,358 water plants will be built with a combined capacity of producing 40 million cubic meters.  China also plans to upgrade and build 150,000 kilometers of water pipe over this five year period.

Recent comments from Taiwan’s top negotiator, China Chiang Pin-kung (head of the semi-official Straits Exchange Foundation on top of relations with China which lack official contacts), attested to the fact that the cross-strait trade pact will make Taiwan investments much more attractive.  This statement came at a seminar of Taiwanese businesspeople based in China.  Chiang further claimed that the recent ECFA signed was “the most important agreement [since it] increased investment opportunities in Taiwan. Therefore investing in Taiwan has become an important option for Taiwanese businesspeople based in China when they seek to take their businesses to the next level.”  Adam Roseman is CEO and founder of ARC China, a company that makes investments in China. Certainly, this information is of key importance to ARC Investment Partners and others.

Zero2IPO reports that non-Chinese managers are starting to form more onshore RMB funds.  The law firm O’Melveny & Myers explains that many of the deals that they work on are stand-alone RMB funds or parallel funds.  These funds work together with an offshore fund in the Cayman Islands.

Larry Sussman,  the head of the law firm’s Beijing office, explains that setting up on offshore fund is easier when compared to setting up an onshore one.

This is certainly interesting news for companies like ARC China with Adam Roseman, that invest in Chinese ventures of all sorts.

In June, ARC China with Adam Roseman opened a new office in Dalian, China.  Dalian has a population of over six million people and it is considered the financial center of Northeast China.

Adam Roseman explained, “As part of our ongoing expansion, ARC China is pleased to open its newest office in Dalian. The addition of this office will be extremely beneficial in allowing us to offer day-to-day support for the Fund as well as grow our operations in one of China’s premier financial centers.”

The Dalian office is located at Suite 819, Sweetland Executive Building, No.171 Changchun Road, Xigang District, Dalian 116011, P.R. China.

The Doha Bank, Qatar, recently marked the third anniversary of its representative office in China, located in Pudong Shangri-la, Shanghai. The celebrations involved a “knowledge sharing session on ‘GCC economies and growth opportunities for China.’”  Amongst others, the event was attended by representatives from Jing An District Government and Shanghai Chamber of Commerce as well as the People’s Bank of China, executives from foreign banks and leading corporations.  The company’s CEO Mr. Seetharaman presented his understanding of the current state of China’s economy, focusing on the bilateral state between the GCC and China in recent years.  He said that:  “GCC countries significantly meet Chinese oil needs and it is expected that demand for oil from china is expected to increase on account of growth in economy activity. China and GCC can also diversify their bilateral relations beyond oil. A free trade agreement between GCC and China should appropriately consider the above factors.”