The two biggest Chinese auctioneers, Beijing Poly and China Guardian, seem to think it worthwhile: they have applied to join.
The scale of the latest haul highlights the growth of party culture in Beijing and in China's large coastal cities.
The Beijing News and China Youth Daily call on authorities to introduce free medical treatment for bird flu victims who are less well-off.
Some provincial authorities appear to have exaggerated economic growth figures last year by more than 5 trillion yuan, according to The Beijing News and China Youth Daily.
Tam opened a shop in Shanghai's upscale Xintiandi district and Beijing's China World in 2004, and later paired up with Disney for "Year of the Mouse" projects in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
The exhibition then travelled to the cities of Campeche and Ciudad del Carmen, before opening in Beijing, China, and travelling in Europe.
Three international Mondialogo Symposia were held in 2004, 2006, and 2008 in Barcelona (Spain), Rome (Italy) and Beijing (China) respectively.
That's added some 27 million square feet of shopping space to cities like Beijing and Guangzhou in China and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.
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In Beijing, Russia and China signed an agreement covering their last outstanding dispute over their border, covering two riverine islands that nearly sparked a war in 1969.
"The draft law it is really trying to tackle the issue in a proactive way, trying to tackle the pollution at its source, " said Ma Jun, a prominent environmentalist in Beijing and author of China's Water Crisis.
Beijing Daily and the South China Morning Post report that residents in Beijing are advised to stay indoors as much as possible in the next few days as toxic smog hits the capital again for the fourth time in a month.
But tensions on the military front are having an increasing impact on policy making in Washington and Beijing as China's growing military power starts to challenge the supremacy that the U.S. has enjoyed in the Asia-Pacific region since the end of World War II.
China is in denial and refuses to confirm that the virus is affecting people in Beijing and Shanghai, as well as South China and Hong Kong.
Turning back to China, Liberation Army Daily and the Beijing News report that China successfully carried out a land-based, mid-course missile interception test at an undisclosed location within its borders, but says the test did not target any country.
Days after the Beijing summit, China and the U.S. provided specific targets for controlling emissions.
The bad news is that, despite all the claims from Beijing and foreign analysts, China's banks were never really reformed.
The congress didn't come to Beijing until 2002 (and China lost its first Olympics bid, though the games will arrive next year).
Another well-known consultancy in Beijing, the World and China Institute, gives advice to officials around the country on how to conduct elections.
But recently he's made much bigger bets in Vietnam and South Korea and in Beijing China, where he is building a mall.
"The art market seems to have cut off from all the negative economic news, " says Urs Meile, who runs a gallery in Beijing, China, and one in Lucerne, Switzerland.
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The U.S. Embassy in Beijing publishes AQI values for Beijing and other cities in China, and the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection provides its own air quality data for cities throughout the country.
But in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Beijing, the China view looks more like that of middle class Eastern European nations like the Czech Republic than an emerging market where most people still earn just a few hundred dollars a month.
Prof Yang Yuguan and two students at the China University of Political Science and Law make a bold call in Hong Kong Beijing-backed newspaper Ta Kung Pao for China to retaliate against Pyongyang and immediately repeal a mutual assistance treaty signed in 1961.
To celebrate this and to demonstrate to the world "China's stability, prosperity and dynamism, " Beijing has declared 1997 Visit China Year.
In a project that covers several parts of arid and semi-arid China Beijing, Hebei, Qingdao and Shenyang, as well as the Hai basin and the smaller Turpan basin the World Bank has been promoting water conservation.
The committee called on Berlin to lobby Beijing and European countries to ensure China does not help its exporters more than other nations.
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