guanxi

"If you have guanxi, it's the time to make some big money."

"You pay off the right people and you get good guanxi."

Now, we're between that phase and the time when guanxi will no longer be necessary."

The Chinese people held a very distinctive notion of the state, family, and social relationships such as guanxi.

The relationships formed by guanxi are personal and not transferable.

He'd thought his guanxi was better than this.

Everything from jobs to cars to videos is distributed largely on the basis of guanxi.

"The word that best encapsulates the whole process - guanxi, or connections - is after all Chinese."

Dellray must've indeed used his guanxi in high places to get them reinforcements.

Also like most, they are trying to use their guanxi with friendly officials to get large loans from Government-run banks.

Connections, guanxi, are an obsession of conversation in Shanghai.

For one thing, he said, it suits the Chinese way of doing business, which is lubricated by guanxi, or personal connections.

Jobs are also transmitted through other relatives or their friends, with accordance to the complex Chinese social concept of guanxi.

He figured he could use his guanxi, or connections, to get a van assigned to the school.

"This place runs on guanxi," a Westerner living in Shanghai said.

He had guanxi at the highest level.

Graduates who come from a rural background may not have the social skills and connections ("guanxi") important in building a successful career.

A broader question is whether those leaping into the sea are unfairly taking advantage of their guanxi, or connections.

Or it's the work that has gone into cultivating guanxi, or connections, with the bankers and local officials.

You must have very good guanxi," she said in mock serious tones, then popped a grape into her mouth.

Lippo's opportunities and choices reflect the importance of what the Chinese call guanxi - connections.

"Guanxi" is basically a Chinese word, meaning "relationship".

A major aspect of corruption in public life is influence peddling, what is known here as guanxi, or connections.

But the Hilton had no guanxi.

A local government official said frankly that it is an opportunity for them to maintain guanxi, or relations, with central government offices.