Thus, we can have the end game where China does not have those things but is not a rich country, or where China is a rich country but which by definition must have those things.
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Previous waves of emigrants fled China because the country was poor, violent and despotically ruled.
Despite a fall of almost 4%, China remains the country with the single-largest number of students.
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And in China, smog is starting to clear in some parts of the country, China Central Television reports.
Bank of China, the country's biggest foreign-exchange lender, which hopes to follow in 2005, could be even bigger.
Newspapers across China discuss the country's economic prospects on Friday as inflation data for the past year was released.
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Fighting between the two sides in December and January threatened to spill into neighboring China, the country's largest foreign investor.
Li told reporters in China tha the country should have another 100 nuke power plants up and running by 2020.
Bank of China is the country's biggest bank for foreign exchange transactions, so the account closure could hurt the North Korean institution.
Yet it's important not to lose sight of the other truth about China, a country facing problems as huge as its achievements.
China, a country with over 4500 years of recorded history, gave the world, gunpowder, paper, compasses, movable type, and even the seismological detector.
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Just looking at China, that country has 122 million consumers who do not yet use an iPhone or Android device, but could afford one.
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In a reflection of growing public frustration inside China with the country's problematic ally, Chinese social media users reacted angrily to news of the seizure.
Most analysts consider China Life the country's most attractive life company because it has a wider distribution network and stronger brand recognition than its competitors.
More and more, China is the country that moves markets everywhere.
The current round of disputes will undoubtedly end up in a trade war, and China, a country extraordinarily dependent on exports, will surely be the biggest loser.
Swift says that European brands like Azimut and Sunseeker have "made a killing" in China as the country's elite discovers the pleasures of messing about on boats.
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"We should avoid any excuse that might lead to the revitalization of trade protectionism, " said Su Ning of the People's Bank of China, the country's central bank.
Some in China feel their country should still be viewed as a low-income nation, not even "moderately prosperous" yet, and left to focus on its own development.
Starbucks' penetration is perhaps most remarkable of all, given that China is a country of devoted tea drinkers who do not take readily to the taste of coffee.
Xu smuggled goods and trans-shipped them from China into another country, shielding them from customs investigations by packing them into drums of chemicals, and then shipping to various ports throughout Europe.
But even without those machines from outside China, the country itself has already been pumping out its very own gaming devices, including the shameless iReadyGo (pictured above), the Lenovo-backed Eedoo and various Wii clones.
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Second, the Smithian effect mitigates rising inequality in India, a serious issue: 48 billionaires in India own 10.9 percent of the GDP (in China, another country with significant inequality, 95 billionaires represent only 2.6 percent of GDP).
This month, the People's bank of China, the country's central bank, engineered a one-day fall of almost 1% of the value of the renminbi, apparently a warning that Beijing would resume its efforts to cheapen its currency.
Bank of China, the country's largest foreign-exchange bank, said that its net profit climbed 12% on-year in 2012, higher than analyst expectations. 2012 net profit at Agricultural Bank of China, China's largest rural lender by assets, came out a touch lower than expectations.
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