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enovate and Greennovate Launch 2010 Chinese Youth Green Values Report

Throughout the months of November and December, enovate and Greennovate teamed up to conduct the first ever Chinese youth focused environmental study. In our research efforts, we managed to capture 400 unique Chinese youth voices in our surveys and in-depth interviews. These voices represent China’s...
March 9th, 2010 | Enovate Reports, Green China, Joey | Read More

enovate Launches 2010 China Emerging Consumer Trends Report

enovate is proud to announce the release of our 2010 Chinese Emerging Consumer Trends Report. Read through our press release, check out our teaser slideshare, and sign-up to receive a copy of the full report in your inbox! CHINA CONSUMER INSIGHTS AND STRATEGY FIRM, ENOVATE, RELEASES TOP 2010 CHINA...
March 2nd, 2010 | Enovate Reports | Read More

Shanghai’s Bike Rental System Set to Transform City’s Biking Landscape

We’ve had our eye firmly fixed on bike culture in Chinese society over the past month, charging our ethnographic electrodes, allowing us to notice something interesting springing up along Shanghai’s sidewalks: a Forever powered bike rental system. (photo credit, tokyocraiger) Shanghai has...
February 22nd, 2010 | Joey, Shanghai Forever Bicycle Company, Trends and Insights | Read More

Local Chinese Food Retailers Battle Strong International Pressure

A Search for Peanut Butter in Panjin My eyes shifted, darting back and forth, spotting feather-less chickens, pieces of pig, bloody beef being chopped into digestible meat. I was lost in the heart of an outdoor meat market in the middle of Panjin, a tier three city in northern China. My sneakers traced...
January 26th, 2010 | Food Shopping | Read More

Young Chinese Parents Head to “Social-Parenting” Sites For Advice

Just incase you missed it! enoVate star, Joey Dembs, contributed this article to PSFK last week. A recent Forbes article describes a rash of new Chinese parents logging on to “social-parenting” sites such as Babytree.com to offer advice and garner parenting tips from other new Chinese parents. While...
January 18th, 2010 | Post 80's Parents | Read More

A Call for More Chinese “Voices” in Western Academic Discourse

The always effervescent and intelligent Alec Ash has kindly allowed us to reference his recent thinksix.net blog posts (here and here) that center on our most recent theme: Chinese youth studying abroad. Both of his excellent posts focus on the topical argument of China’s “brain drain”...
January 11th, 2010 | Chinese Youth Studying Abroad | Read More

Rian Dundon Photography | “Mastery of English”

22-year-old Beth Tang studies from her English dictionary.  Beth grew up in the remote countryside of central China’s Hunan province.  Her farmer parents took out bank loans to pay for her undergraduate education while working odd jobs to supplement their income.  The first of her family to go...
January 11th, 2010 | Chinese Youth Studying Abroad, Photography | Read More

China Experiencing a “Brain-Gain”, Rather Than a “Brain Drain”. But Why?

For this week’s enoVate theme topic, we have selected Chinese youth studying abroad as it gives a detailed glance into international and educational influences, both large factors in the lives of Chinese youth. We lead off this week with a post from eno Marketing Supervisor, Faye Yu, a graduate...
January 6th, 2010 | Chinese Youth Studying Abroad | Read More

Rian Dundon Photography | “China’s Next Next Generation”

We welcome Rian Dundon to the enoVate blog team. He will provide weekly photos and snapshots into the lives of Chinese youth. His excellent photography will help to contextualize our weekly themes. Enjoy! At age 23 Chen Yu, a graduate student in software engineering at a top school in Hunan province,...
January 4th, 2010 | Photography | Read More

We Present: China’s Youth Voices – China in the Next Decade

As part of our ongoing street snaps and interviews, we would like to present a new feature to enoVate blog: China’s Youth Voices. These series of slideshares will provide interesting answers and glimpses into the viewpoints and feelings of young Chinese individuals. Click on the full screen for...
December 31st, 2009 | Trends and Insights | Read More