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Recruitment Partners Can Your China Recruiter Name Your Rivals’ Hires? Most foreign employers compare search firms for weeks and verify one for an afternoon. This piece is about the afternoon. It assumes you already know what you want to hire, and takes up the part nobody […]
Foreign Direct Investment Hiring in China: When the R&D Budget Outruns the Org Chart Foreign capital is still arriving in China, but it is arriving as a different kind of money. In the first nine months of 2026, high-tech industries drew 33.8 per cent more foreign […]
Manufacturing Talent Watch The Long Search for People Inside Dongguan’s One-Hour Supply Chain Dongguan’s electronics cluster carries 1.1 trillion yuan of output and roughly 90 per cent of smartphone components inside a one-hour delivery radius. Its monitored ratio of skilled vacancies to qualified candidates has held […]
Embodied AI Talent Watch China Can Build Humanoid Robots. Few Can Make Them Work. The world bought roughly 36,000 humanoid robots in the first half of 2026. UBTech, the Shenzhen manufacturer, shipped 921 full-size units and finished first. Postings in the humanoid subsegment rose 147.02 per […]
Energy Storage Talent Watch China’s Storage Boom Is Running Out of People to Fix It Chinese storage makers signed roughly 298 gigawatt-hours of overseas orders in the first half of 2026, up about 83 per cent year on year according to the MIIT Equipment Industry Development […]
Hydrogen Talent Watch Five Hydrogen Clusters, No One to Run the Lines China’s hydrogen pilot is no longer a policy document. In June the three ministries issued the notice opening national hydrogen comprehensive application pilots; on October 20 the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology confirmed […]
When a top AI researcher can start at a $400m valuation, an offer letter is no longer enough. Here is what hiring an embodied AI leader in China now involves.
J&T’s Saudi, UAE, Mexico, Brazil and Egypt volumes grew 159.5% in Q3, faster than local benches. Here is how China’s logistics groups can staff those networks.
China’s eVTOL makers hold thousands of orders, yet only a few hundred engineers can carry certification. Here is who to hire first for an eVTOL team in China.
ByteDance lists 4,791 AI roles, and its reqs now set pay expectations in China. See which evaluation, forward-deployed and robotics hires are hardest to fill.
Published 1 October 2026 · SunTzu Recruit Summary: China–Europe rail freight is growing fast, and new services such as cold-chain, cross-border e-commerce and automotive block trains have been added in the past year. The shortage is not in trains or drivers. It is in managers who […]
Over 60% of Chinese cross-border sellers now run AI. Profiles, sources and screening tests for hiring via a cross-border e-commerce headhunter in China.
Hong Kong asset and wealth AUM hit HK$42.2tn in 2025. Profiles, pay and search timing for hiring through a fund product lead headhunter in Hong Kong.
Shenzhen's modular building exports rose 19.6% in Jan–Apr 2026. Overseas roles that gate handover, for modular building executive search in China.
China's top model teams are now led by 1990s-born researchers. Their career paths, grades and non-compete risks, for foundation model executive search in China.
China's tech giants now compete for AI leaders on grade and headcount, not cash alone. Benchmarks for companies planning AI executive search in China.
Hong Kong's 2026 Policy Address, delivered on 16 September, told licensed venues to trade regulated stablecoins and settle tokenised money-market funds with them, and set a year-end deadline for round-the-clock settlement tests. The city already runs 13 SFC-licensed virtual-asset platforms and two licensed stablecoin issuers, chosen from 36 applicants. The scarce input is licensed people rather than code: fintech recruiters in Hong Kong are running compliance searches past six months. A partner at SunTzu Recruitment explains what the city forgot to budget for.
Ezhou Huahu International Airport, Asia's first cargo-only airport, closed its fourth year with 122 freight routes, adding Athens, Frankfurt and Chicago in 2026. China's international air cargo and mail volume rose 13.9 percent in the first half to 2.32 million tonnes, CAAC data show, and cross-border e-commerce supplies 60 to 70 percent of the freight lifted out of China by air. Carriers and airport operators now compete for the same thin pool of network planners, cargo commercial directors and away-station managers. A recruitment specialist at SunTzu Recruit, which runs air cargo searches from Shenzhen, explains the shortlist problem.
XCMG Machinery's overseas revenue rose 21.03% to RMB 30.92 billion in the first half of 2026, passing half of total revenue for the first time, while SANY earned 61.33% of core revenue abroad. Both now depend on parts depots, dealer networks and field technicians — regional service directors, aftermarket heads and country managers who take nine to twelve months to place. SunTzu Recruit's manufacturing practice, which runs heavy equipment searches from Shanghai, explains why China's machinery exports are now limited by people rather than shipping capacity.
UnionPay is now accepted at more than 100 million merchants outside mainland China, its QR network reaches 46 million of them, and more than 200 UnionPay-standard wallets have launched across 37 countries and regions. Its agentic payment protocol went live with 19 initial partners. Every linkage needs a program lead, a settlement architect and a compliance officer who can sit between two central banks — a profile that barely exists. A recruitment specialist at SunTzu Recruit, which runs fintech recruiter mandates from Shanghai, explains why staffing, not technology, now sets the pace.
Kuaishou's Kling AI reached a 300 million annualized revenue run rate in January 2026 and is raising 3 billion at an $18 billion valuation ahead of a Hong Kong listing — the first Chinese AI application to prove recurring global revenue at scale, even as OpenAI retired its rival Sora. The bottleneck has moved past model research: it is now the multilingual commercial and creative-market leaders who can grow AI video revenue across Tokyo, Seoul, London and Los Angeles. A recruitment specialist at SunTzu Recruit describes a shortage that has become structural.
Robotaxi fleets from China run in Dubai and Doha, but executives able to run them across regulators are scarce. Gulf roles, pools and fill times, mapped.
Zhihu, China's answer to Quora, saw paid content and IP operations hit 61.7% of revenue in the second quarter of 2026, eclipsing advertising for the first time. The Beijing-based company's Yan Yan Story unit grew author copyright income 620% year over year. For executive search firms such as SunTzu Recruit, the pivot marks a new hunt: content-IP operators, short-drama producers, and AI-data specialists.
China’s air conditioner exports to the EU surged 43.2% in H1 2026 amid record heat waves and structurally low local penetration. Leading Chinese brands are shifting from pure export to full local operations, including R&D centers, manufacturing plants and service networks. The critical bottleneck is now scarce cross-border localization executives who can build and run in-market operations, with demand far outpacing the limited talent pool.