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Shanghai set out to take over from Hong Kong and I think it's done that. It's got the most amazing futuristic skyline which rivals and even betters Tokyo.

The companies that do well are the companies that use math.

China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them.

And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.

I think that China has many outstanding authors, and their great works should also be recognised by the world.

China is a great manufacturing center, but it's actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that comes from the surrounding industrial - more advanced industrial centers - Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, the United States, Europe - and it basically assembles them.

Best Buy went and hired a lot of Shanghai staff, but went and westernised them. They only work eight hours a day!

When 'designed in Europe' is combined with 'made in China' and when European technologies are applied to the Chinese market, there will be amazing results.

I went to China for a brief working visit, and I thought that Shanghai was interesting, but Beijing totally grabbed me.

China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.