Wang also won the women's singles title in Sydney, bringing her career tally to three Olympic gold and cementing her status as one of the best players in China's seemingly endless production-line of elite table tennis players.
China's domination of the global production of rare-earth minerals in particular has fuelled the search for other sources of materials essential for everything from electronics to wind turbines.
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China's growing production base and the spread of digital products thus presents the big firms with a confusing mix of threats and opportunities.
Provinces around Beijing account for much of China's recent record levels of (air-fouling) steel and coke production.
Hope Group now accounts for about 5% of China's domestic feed production.
During October, China's steel output rose by 25%, while production of goods such as dishwashers also surged.
Industrial accidents have gone hand in hand with China's emergence as a world powerhouse in production including of food.
Regardless of China's plans to boost domestic energy production, the bottom line remains clear: China will divert considerable capital outlays to pay for imported energy in the coming decade.
If China's electricity production figures have a story to tell, it is of structural reform.
At present, China's dependency on imports amounts to only 10% of domestic production, but that figure is projected to rise to 20% by 2000 and possibly to 40% by 2010.
As China's food exports surge, its food-production practices are an area of growing concern outside the country.
If the yuan rises, they will stay in China and simply pass on the higher costs of production to their U.S. customers because they must stay there.
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Wednesday, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said the nation's gold production reached 277.017 metric tons in the January-to-October period, up 8.8% from the same period last year.
There's also a significant lithium production in China in - again, in the Tibetan region of Southwest China.
China's film industry has been reaching out to Hollywood in search of co-production deals that would help studios make movies that both Chinese and global audiences like.
Another possible explanation posits that the surge in the global discrepancy broadly coincides with both the explosion in vertically integrated businesses, where firms locate different stages of production in different countries, and the increase in China's trade.
Adding to Friday's better-than-expected growth figures, China's industrial production increased to 10.3% year-on-year versus expectations of 10.2% growth.
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China's 2010 gold production is expected at about 350 metric tons, according to Standard Bank head of commodity strategy Walter de Wet.
Such has been China's success in boosting home production that in November it (albeit briefly) became a net exporter of steel.
The sector depends heavily on China's appetite for metals it consumes half of the world's annual iron ore production, and more than a third of most base metals.
China's efforts are happening at the same time that the U.S. system of food production faces burgeoning backlash from critics at home who deride it as "factory farming" that contributes to less-healthful food and environmental problems.
China's steel production rose 15% year on year in November after flat-lining in the first half of the year.
But for all of Disney's avowed aim to "correctly portray the images and customs" of China, how native can the production be?
As long as U.S. production growth continues apace, China knows they win hands down when it comes to sourcing larger volumes of energy on a global basis.
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China has enough capacity to process not just its own cashmere production, but also the whole of Mongolia's.
An associated reform of China's economy is the creation of more efficient (and ultimately safer and less polluting) means of private production, especially of food.
It was a lie told in the critical state of Ohio in the final days of a close campaign that Jeep was moving its U.S. production to China.
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