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In Biz China this week we see what consumers get up to during the shopping and travelling chaos of Spring Festival and the start of the Year of the Snake, Chinese car exports pass the one million mark for the first time ever and one of China's largest electronics retailers, Gome, announces a net loss for 2012.

In this week's episode we get perspectives on Chinese mobile company HTC launching its smartphone in the newly opening Myanmar market, we see how green technology and sustainability is becoming an imperative for Chinese business performance and one of China's largest property developers, Vanke, jumps outside the mainland for the first time as it tries to go global.

In this week's programme, we hear why the founder of online giant Alibaba, and one of China's champions of the e-commerce industry, Jack Ma, is stepping down as CEO of the company, Chinese companies struggle to deal with the burdens of overcapacity, and we try to understand just what is so great about China's lower tier cities and the business opportunities they present.

This week we see how Denmark is meeting China's growing demand for fur in the luxury fashion sector, in a follow up to our feature on China's job market in 2013, it seems postgraduate students are having a tough time, and we see what's being done to ensure the foundations of China's economic development, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, have a bright future ahead.

On this week's Biz China, we get perspectives on Chinese suppliers standing up to compete against their international clients, state-run news agency Xinhua pushes for an IPO of its online portal, only the second of its kind in the country, and Chinese tech firms are eyeing up opportunities in the Brazilian market. If you don't have iTunes, you can also stream or download this episode via http://english.cri.cn/8706/2013/01/14/2861s743482.htm.

In Biz China this week, we hear how China's white liquor, or baijiu, industry has been performing in 2012 and its prospects for this year, China's film industry is performing below expectations, and China's largest equipment maker is moving into the UK.