Foreign B2B Software Vendors Struggle to Land Chinese Customers
A vendor with two decades of global B2B VoIP software sales has never closed a single customer in China and is unsure whether the barrier is regulatory, procurement-culture-related, or a preference among Chinese businesses to avoid foreign vendors. This reflects a broader uncertainty among foreign software companies about how to enter the Chinese market.
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