labor - Working for a Chinese company

Chinabiz just published its monthy HR-newsletter with a few articles on foreigners working for Chinese companies. It still is a bummer for many foreigers who hope to make a living in that way: in most cases it does not work out.
An annual effort from the remaining planned economy to recruit foreign managers meets many doubts:

Such a theme, though, is not an idea raised by the companies based on their own demands, but rather dictated by administrative orders from the SASAC, as part of the plan to reform the SOEs, and there are several obstacles that may turn the theme into a flop show.

Relative low salaries keep qualified managers away and cultural barriers do make life hard for those few who join Chinese companies for a while.