EDM1- Issue 261

Commercial chaos? Alibaba’s Singles’ Day gets mixed reviews from retailers

Also: Telefonica hangs on, despite other foreign telcos ringing off in China; a slow start for the ‘game-changing’ Shanghai-Hong Kong share scheme; and why have business folk from Dongyang been so extraordinarily successful?

Plus: Wang Jing the mystery man takes Xinwei into space; why petrol-heads are perturbed at Top Gear’s China remake; and how wine from Xinjiang was a surprise winner at WiC’s tastings