Steve Hemingway

I'm not making many entries. You might think this is because I have nothing to blog about. Actually the reverse is the case. I have loads to say, but no time to say it. My life has been hectic of late.

I don't know what to do about this. Blogging is not my top-priority activity of the day. It is rather something I do when I have run out of important things. Most people take the sensible option and don't blog at all. I just feel that blogging fills a small social niche in my life that others fill by being a member of a club, or going to the pub (not that I never do that, although I don't think I've been for around three weeks now).

Every day I think of some subject that I come across and think 'that would make a good subject for a blog'. Unfortunately, that's as far as I get. I never write the couple of paragraphs. I don't suppose the sum of human wisdom is measurably smaller.

China is the top priority of my work right now. I am accumulating good contacts, both in China and in the UK. I don't do nearly enough to maintain communication with them. The good news is that I have now got a real office and a real assistant in China to work for me. I'm hoping that this will free me up to do more truly constructive things. Let's see!

Amazingly I have been spontaneously contacted by a couple of journalists. They wanted to interview me about investing in China.

I know a bit about this. I have spent a large part of the last year reading up about the subject, and talking to people both in China and in the UK about the subject. But as far as the other things I know about, I'm a complete novice. Compared to my (earlier) understanding about statistical mechanics, or derivatives valuation, or C++ programming, or even cooking, I know next to nothing about property investment in China.

I guess it's all relative, and that the reason that people ask me about China is that relative to others in the UK I know quite a lot. Still, I feel a complete fraud, especially when I'm asked to opine on where China ranks as an investment destination globally. What do I know I know how China compares with Czech Republic, Slovenia, Lithuania, Canada, Germany, Burma. Anyway, I'm due to appear on Anton Stoutjesdijk's website.

Anyway, I'll put up the links on the website. I'll almost certainly mention it in my Ming Wei newsletter, which I am producing fairly frequently now. If you haven't already done so, I urge you to make your way without delay to www.mingwei.co.uk and enter your email address on the panel on the left (just under the search box).

I have been very erratic in posting entries recently. I have been on holiday. Things are unlikely to improve when I am in China as I have a very full schedule of meetings.