Two areas of potential opportunity mentioned in the links: if you are an expert or veteran of the food and beverage industry, specifically fast food restaurants, you may be able to do a lot of consulting for local eateries that want to branch out and franchise across the country.  The other area are the zounds of unemployed graduates.  While there is a lot of skillset mismatch (and perhaps no skills at all), because of the rampant nepotism you may be able to find qualified candidates who have been looked over.

Thanks to James and Sinocism for a couple of links:

• Should Chinese universities install AC at student dormitories? from Offbeat China (when I worked in bengbu there were no air conditioners or heaters so it was freezing during the winter and stiffling during the summer.  guangdong had no heaters and the air conditioners were a mix bag.  feel bad for both the students and staff.)
• In Search of Mickey Li’s from Foreign Policy (there are a number of chains from Hong Kong and Taiwan operating on the mainland, Z Kung Fu is my favorite though still mediocre quality)
• Foxconn to speed up ‘robot army’ deployment; 20,000 robots already in its factories from IT World (lots of opportunities at one point, now however, the bots are internally made)
• Hon Hai Plots Next Move from The Wall Street Journal (coming to a neighborhood near you?  labor arbitrage in reverse?)
• Tencent’s Indian JV Acquires Local Internet Bus Ticket Website from China Tech News
• Post-90s Grads Confront Nepotism from The Economic Observer (as Bill Bishop mentioned, nepotism exists in every country.  however i would probably empathize with these grads, having worked with them closely for several years… without guanxi they will have very mediocre careers — definitely not a meritocracy)
• Closer Look: The Jostling for 4G Licenses Begins from Caixin (i used a China Unicom 3G usb dongle for a couple years in anhui and guangdong, wasn’t very impressed with both service and bandwidth. but they will probably get it right one of these days, right?)
• Qantas in China prison labour row from Financial Review (oops, someone forgot to look at the upstream/downstream supply chain vendors)
• Fake It Till You Make It from Foreign Affairs (i predict that ZTE, Huawei and Lenovo will eventually make big inroads in this global segment, making decent phones already)
• Ed Snowden Inspired This Chinese Lawyer to Challenge Beijing’s Digital Spying from Foreign Policy (uphill, never ending fight)
• Great Fire Wall architect Fang Binxing quits as president of Beijing university from South China Morning Post (probably the least liked person in the country)