The Economic Times

In just a few years, China has become the world's most enticing movie market, but the pitfalls there for foreign filmmakers are many, experts said.

Censorship, bureaucracy and piracy head the roster of concerns, said specialists interviewed in the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and at the Cannes Film Festival.

"China is extremely complicated when it comes to the cinema," said Jerome Paillard, director of the Marche du Film, a meeting point at Cannes that gathers 10,000 buyers and sellers in the world cinema business.

"Film makers are growing more wary of China, not only because of its strict censorship policies, but also because of the strong protectionist measures the Chinese film authorities take to protect their films," said Robert Cain, a movie producer.

BBC

Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) has grown from nothing a little more than a decade ago to become the world's biggest genetic sequencing company.

Almost 3,000 people work at the plant in Shenzhen, decoding DNA data on behalf of global clients in healthcare and agriculture.

BGI has just decoded all of the varieties of the chickpea and is now attempting to determine the genetic components of human intelligence, to give just two examples of the sort of work being done here.

BGI can do this kind of work on a bigger scale than anyone else because elsewhere in the world, it would cost much more to hire all this brainpower.