Beijing's E-town businesses continue to confound worldwide downturn

Editor's note:

Throughout 2009 the business community in China and beyond has been bedeviled by worldwide uncertainties about the economic situation. More than ever before, entrepreneurs and investors have kept a keen eye on the prevailing factors that will shape any recovery or mark a continued downturn.

Whilst the current state of the global economy can offer few certainties, the business acumen of a small group of entrepreneurs has allowed them to continue to develop their commercial interests and, in some cases, even seen them turn the international fiscal slowdown to their own advantage.