We have an excellent relationship with China -- with the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, China Telecom and various provincial and municipal bodies and telecommunications authorities.

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There is a shadow banking system in China where municipal governments set up various types of investment vehicles to invest in local companies.

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Liu Zhi, director of the municipal commission for population and family planning, told China Daily on Saturday that the city plans to start extensive research into the characteristics of the urban population.

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The Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Center said high pollutions were also recorded in others parts of China, including Tianjin and Hebei province.

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China has more than 1, 000 county-level governments and hundreds of city and municipal councils that rely on revenue from local taxes, land sales and central-government transfers because rules bar most from selling bonds.

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Yangzhou, where Marco Polo once served as a municipal official, has a history of 2, 500 years, dating back to the Spring and Autumn Period in China (771 to 403 BC) when it was called Guangling.

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