中國大陸在過去幾年以卓越的成長率快速成長，也吸引外資私募股權基金湧入中國大陸市場。然而，整體私募股權投資的報酬並沒有預期中如此豐碩。相反地，外資私募股權在中國大陸遭遇到許多挑戰，例如文化差異造成資訊取得困難、不成熟的投資環境導致投資評估難以進行以及政府政策的限制阻礙了外資私募的投資以及退場策略的選擇。
原本在美國從事私募股權投資的馬克在2009年進入中國大陸市場，在面對這些挑戰的同時，正思考外資私募股權基金該如何調整其營運策略去克服這些來自投資環境、當地文化以及政府政策的挑戰以及歸納出外資私募股權在中國大陸投資成功的主要影響因素與未來發展可能帶來的影響。

In the past few years, the amazing GDP growth rate of China attracted many foreign private equity funds to enter the market and expect to make a lot of money. However, the return was below the expected return and there were several investment unrealized because of the uncertainty in government policy and immature investment environment which are partly caused by the cultural difference between China and Western.
In this case, Mark, who was a private equity fund manager in the U.S. for the past years, decided to enter the market in China in 2009. As he encountered those challenges in China, he is considering how to adjust the fund operation and try to find the major factors which may affect the foreign private equity fund to invest in China.

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