Working in Foreign Countries

I posted this in the "Miscellaneous" area, but I haven't not gotten many responses, so I am trying it here. If there is a better location for it please let me know.

The company I work for is opening an office in China. We will be hiring locals to do the work. We will support them from the U.S. as much as we can. I know there are Chinese Operating Systems and Chinese versions of other software we use (Office, Autocad, etc). I was wondering overall what I should expect. I have had very little to do with foreign documents except PDF's and Word. Most of these had some form of translation done to them so we saw English and the language they were created in.

When we send a document (Word, Excel) from an English version will it be converted when they open it and what happens to the documnets they send us that were originally done in Chinese? I assume this is not transparent and the document will open in its native language if we have the proper languages installed on our systems.

I would like a broad picture of some of the things we may need to do to prepare for this and what to expect.

Any links or ideas will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Embry