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Key Takeaways ?抽?瑕??

In 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic caused the 2020骞存??????????????村????娴??
most severe global economic downturn 婊??杩????2008骞村????????轰互?ユ?
since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. However, as 涓ラ????娆′?婊???????????板??虹????缁х画?????欢锛??
Covid-19 continued to threaten the resilience of the 缁????????娴??????介?????藉????????撅?浣?????缁?
global economy in 2021, the international business ?????弧??????骞淬??敖绠?2020骞翠腑?戒?涓虹?涓?涓?????涓?
community once more endured a challenging year 瑕??娴??锛?苟浠????ぇ娴?????杩蜂腑灞??浜?护浜哄?璞℃繁?荤?
overcoming many obstacles. While China was the ??脊锛?????浜?????缂恒??椽姘村??藉????灞??ㄧ????澶????
first major economy to recover, staging an impressive 绱??????涓???板凡?ㄥ?澶х?搴??寰??缂?В锛?腑?界?娴???垮?
rebound from the 2020 pandemic slump, China?? 2021骞翠???勾?剧????骞存????缇?????杩??????板?缁??
economic growth slowed down in the latter part of ??????璋????????涓?勾澶淬??负浜??浼版????????????
2021 due to several factors including power shortages, 涓????画褰卞?锛??浠?????杩??浜???㈢?瀹????┒涓?????璇?
flooding and new outbreaks of COVID-19 in various ??┒???????ㄣ??2022骞村?????虹?娴???电????????腑???
parts of China ?? many of which have been in most part ?ュ?????ョ?绌舵???2021骞?10???12 ????磋?琛??????ュ?
alleviated. In order to evaluate the continued impact of 瀵归???????芥???璇风?浼??浼??杩??浜??娴???佃??ワ?杩??
COVID-19 on business, AmCham South China conducted 浼??浠ｈ〃浜????????瀹跺??板???????涓???ユ??ㄥ?涓??
a comprehensive quantitative study of the business ????搞????ュ??ㄥ??堕????缇?????浼???ㄩ?搴???????
community for the 18th consecutive year, the results 缂??娌诲???????涓???跺?????″?灞???????
of which are published in this 2022 Special Report on the
State of Business in South China. The study was conducted
during months of October to December 2021. The
Report presents an assessment of the state of business
involving a randomly selected number of companies
representing a cross section of businesses from various
nations and regions with existing operations in China.
This report tracks their operations in China within a
highly dynamic geopolitical and business climate.

Key takeaways of this report are as below: ???????抽?瑕??濡??锛?

路2021 saw an increase in headcount by half of 路50%???璁夸?涓??2021骞村?????ㄥ??????ぇ?ㄥ???
the participating companies. Strong confidence can 璁夸?涓??2022骞存???????婊′俊蹇??57%???璁夸?涓?〃绀轰?
be found in the employment expansion plan with 57% ?ㄦ??ヤ?骞存???????灏??澧???????
of companies reporting to augment their headcounts
significantly or slightly in 2022. 路涓????勾?告?锛??涓??????ュ??ㄧ??ユ?姣??淇????
瀵圭ǔ瀹?????姝ｅ?娉㈠?瓒????ぇ绾?????浼??浠?腑?借?寰??瓒?
路Companies?? global annual revenue from China 杩?30%????ャ??63%???璁夸?涓?〃绀?2021骞村?????舵??捐?
went through a modest but mostly positive fluctuation ????????澧??锛???颁???????姘村钩??
in comparison with previous four years. Approximately
half of the companies obtained over 30% of revenue 路82%???璁夸?涓?〃绀哄凡?ㄤ腑?藉??扮??╋??告?杩??涓?
from China. 63% of the companies found their revenue 骞存???涓????????宸插??扮??╃?浼??涓??56%琛ㄧず宸茬?瀹??
from China increase significantly or slightly in 2021 ???骞惰揪?伴????????歌??诲勾澧??浜?7涓???????
which returned to pre-COVID levels.
路棰???藉?????村?瀹????????涓?ぇ骞??灏???12%??
路Around 82% of the companies have already ???浼??璁や负瀹??????????瑕??骞寸??充互涓???堕?锛????
achieved profitability in China in 2021, a slight reduction 浠ュ?浠???虹?杩????
compared to the last three years. Nevertheless, 56% of
them reported to have met their budget expectations,
a 7 percentage point uptick in comparison with the
previous year.

路Fewer companies expect to reach profitability in
a short period of time. An unprecedented situation can
be noticed in this year?? report in which up to 12% of the

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