China's Superbank - Debt, Oil and Influence - How China Development Bank is Rewriting the Rules of Finance
Published on 10. October 2015
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224 pages
978-1-119-19915-1 (ISBN)
Description
Inside the engine-room of China's economic growth the China Development Bank Anyone wanting a primer on the secret of China's economic success need look no further than China Development Bank (CDB) which has displaced the World Bank as the world's biggest development bank, lending billions to countries around the globe to further Chinese policy goals. In China s Superbank, Bloomberg authors Michael Forsythe and Henry Sanderson outline how the bank is at the center of China's domestic economic growth and how it is helping to expand China's influence in strategically important overseas markets. 100 percent owned by the Chinese government, the CDB holds the key to understanding the inner workings of China's state-led economic development model, and its most glaring flaws. The bank is at the center of the country's efforts to build a world-class network of highways, railroads, and power grids, pioneering a lending scheme to local governments that threatens to spawn trillions of yuan in bad loans. It is doling out credit lines by the billions to Chinese solar and wind power makers, threatening to bury global competitors with a flood of cheap products.
Another $45 billion in credit has been given to the country's two biggest telecom equipment makers who are using the money to win contracts around the globe, helping fulfill the goal of China's leaders for its leading companies to "go global." Bringing the story of China Development Bank to life by crisscrossing China to investigate the quality of its loans, China s Superbank travels the globe, from Africa, where its China-Africa fund is displacing Western lenders in a battle for influence, to the oil fields of Venezuela. * Offers a fascinating insight into the China Development Bank (CDB), the driver of China's rapid economic development * Travels the globe to show how the CDB is helping Chinese businesses "go global" * Written by two respected reporters at Bloomberg News As China's influence continues to grow around the world, many people are asking how far it will extend. China s Superbank addresses these vital questions, looking at the institution at the heart of this growth.
Another $45 billion in credit has been given to the country's two biggest telecom equipment makers who are using the money to win contracts around the globe, helping fulfill the goal of China's leaders for its leading companies to "go global." Bringing the story of China Development Bank to life by crisscrossing China to investigate the quality of its loans, China s Superbank travels the globe, from Africa, where its China-Africa fund is displacing Western lenders in a battle for influence, to the oil fields of Venezuela. * Offers a fascinating insight into the China Development Bank (CDB), the driver of China's rapid economic development * Travels the globe to show how the CDB is helping Chinese businesses "go global" * Written by two respected reporters at Bloomberg News As China's influence continues to grow around the world, many people are asking how far it will extend. China s Superbank addresses these vital questions, looking at the institution at the heart of this growth.
Reviews / Votes
"Despite CDB s central role in developing China s economy and bankrolling the international expansion of Chinese companies, China s biggest policy lender rarely makes an appearance in most English-language chronicles of the country s economic rise. All the more reason then to praise a superbly researched new book, written by two Beijing-based reporters for Bloomberg, in which CDB finally makes a star turn." "Lifting the veil on one of global finance s least understood institutions, the book is essential reading for anyone seeking insight into the workings of Chinese state capitalism." -- China Economic Quarterly, March 2013 Reviewer: Erica Downs of the Brookings Institution "China's economy sometimes seems the work of miracles: three decades of economic growth, with GDP compounding at an annual rate of around 10%; the world's highest levels of savings and investment; vast trade surpluses, which feed the largest foreign-exchange reserves in history. The financial system has played a key role in delivering these economic feats, and no single institution within it has been more important than China Development Bank. "Understand CDB," Henry Sanderson and Michael Forsythe write in "China's Superbank," "and you understand the core of China's state capitalism." -- Wall Street Journal review, Feb 27, 2013 "The book is another useful insight into the workings of the Chinese state apparatus to come out of the Bloomberg bureau in Beijing in July it printed an expose about the family finances of Xi Jinping, and its website has been blocked since. One of the most striking aspects of the CDB story is how the bank managed to balance being a state-owned company with maintaining sufficient independence to function as a commercial business." -- Irish Times "Calls for reform in China tend to come in two kinds one, the most common in Chinese social media and popular discussion, calls for a crackdown on endemic forms of local tyranny, such as land seizures, black prisons, and bribery. The other, found among liberals within the Party and expatriate businessmen, talks about rolling back the growing dominance of the state and state-owned companies over the Chinese economy, opening more markets to competition and ending the practices that allow state-owned (or state-blessed) companies to command cheap access to capital, natural resources, and land. So far, Xi Jinping's term looks promising for advocates of the first but the book [China's Superbank: Debt, Oil and Influence How China Development Bank is Rewriting the Rules of Finance] makes a case that land seizures are at the very foundations of China's model of state capitalism." -- The DiplomatMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
666 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-119-19915-1 (9781119199151)
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HENRY SANDERSON has been a reporter for Bloomberg News since April 2010. Prior to that, he was a reporter for the Associated Press in Beijing and Dow Jones in New York. While at Bloomberg, Sanderson has covered corporate finance, focusing on China's banks, the bond market, and the emergence of the yuan as an international currency. He is a graduate of the University of Leeds (with a BA in Chinese and English literature) and Columbia University (with a Master's in East Asian Studies). MICHAEL FORSYTHE has been a reporter and editor for Bloomberg News since 2000. Prior to that, he was an officer in the U.S. Navy for seven years, serving on ships in the U.S. 7th Fleet. The highlight of his career in Washington was overseeing Bloomberg's coverage of the historic 2008 presidential election. Since returning to Beijing in 2009, Forsythe has focused on policy and politics, with particular emphasis on the international impact of "China Inc." He is a graduate of Georgetown University (with a BA in International Economics) and Harvard University (with a Master's in East Asian Regional Studies).
Content
Preface ix Acknowledgments xix Chapter 1 Let 10,000 Projects Bloom 1 The Wuhu Model 4 The Chongqing Model 9 Global Financial Crisis 12 A Town Called Loudi 15 Li's Story 18 "Manhattan" in China 22 Credit Risk in a One-Party State 26 Cracks in the System 29 Chapter 2 Turning a Zombie Bank into a Global Bank 39 A Life in the Party 41 The Princeling Party: The Beginning of State Capitalism 50 Taking Over a Basket Case 55 Transforming CDB from an ATM Machine 58 Developing a Slogan 62 Beating the Commercial Banks 64 Gao Jian: Creating a Market for "Risk-Free" Bonds 68 The West Self-Destructs: The Financial Crisis 72 Moving Beyond Wall Street 75 Chapter 3 Nothing to Lose but Our Chains: China Development Bank in Africa 85 Made in Ethiopia 90 Ethiopia's Zone: Exporting to the West 94 China-Africa Development Fund: The State's Private Equity Arm 96 Rising Role of China in Africa 101 Fixed Capital: Western-Style Lending 105 African Tiger: Can Ghana Escape the Resource Curse? 108 Fresh Capital 116 Chapter 4 Risk versus Reward: China Development Bank in Venezuela 123 Default in Bolivar's Country 125 China's Venezuelan Adventure 126 Loans for Oil 132 Cars, Housing, and Gold: Good Business for China 136 Ecuador 139 Russia 140 China in the Backyard of the United States 141 Chapter 5 Funding the New Economy 147 Obama's Dream 151 Default-Free Bond Market 153 Financing China's Global Company: Huawei 157 The Final Frontier: Private Equity 163 Acting as a Gatekeeper 167 Imprint of the State 169 Chapter 6 The Future 175 About the Authors 181 Index 183