Matthieu David-Experton interviews Andrei Prokhorovich, the founder and General Director of Eurasia Development Ltd. Andrei shares his vision of opening China's market to foreign high-tech companies and his insight on what barriers foreign companies face when entering China and what opportunities they can take advantage of in China.

Highlights of this episode include:

5:00 How he got involved in technology exchange between China and Russia

7:35 The size of the company

13:20 How dairy was slowly introduced to China

16:15 How to get a free office in China's technology parks

17:50 How to get Chinese government grants, the requirements for foreign tech companies

22:20 What does Eurasia Development Ltd. do for foreign clients

28:00 How Andrei has built relationships, or guanxi, with experts outside of the company

30:30 Cases of past clients

31:15 How Dodo Pizza entered China in a new retail format

43:00 How he scales his business in China

45:00 Why Yantai is a good place to start a business

1:00 Why communication is a core part of Andrei's life

More on Eurasia Development Ltd.: http://ed-innovative.com/

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This podcast is sponsored by daxue consulting, a strategic research firm that answers complex business questions on the Chinese market with traditional and tech tools. Since 2012, daxue has served more than 250 clients and completed more than 300 projects.

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