That would mean nearly one-quarter -- about 23% -- of China's total arable land would be used for soybeans, based on China's latest data from 2008.
Mr. Wheatley also cautioned that trading in products based on China's currency, the yuan, likely will develop at a much slower pace than many would expect.
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The increase, equal to more than 150, 000 square miles, or an area almost three times larger than New York state, would be based on China's forest cover in 2005.
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And on the heritage front, Ford hopes to capitalize on what it says is an actual brand image in China, based in part on TV images of U.S. presidential limousines through the years as well as the Lincoln Continental that former President Richard Nixon brought with him on his historic visit to China in 1972.
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Instead I prefer U.S.-based companies that have considerable business exposure to China, but trade on a U.S. exchange.
The FDA's just-announced import ban on some farm-raised seafood from China, based on its concerns about chemical residues, attracted bad press for Asia's export powerhouse and was more bad news for the worldwide fisheries industry.
This American Life also published a popular story based on Mike Daisey's account of his visit to China in January 2012.
China-based companies have gone public on the U.S. market in record numbers in 2010.
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Yet the overall cost premium, based on the difference in absolute wages between the U.S. and China, is actually expanding, so labor arbitrage involving China and other low labor cost markets will likely persist.
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The compounded average growth rates of China's office and retail rents from 2007 to 2012, based on 10 major city samples, were 4.62% and 4.41%, respectively.
China has now completed four successful flights of its Shenzhou capsule, based on Russia's Soyuz model.
HSBC's China PMI is seen as a forward-looking indicator, based on surveys with executives in over 420 manufacturing companies.
He is focused on the need to advance U.S. interests in our broad-based relationship with China -- very important economic, diplomatic relationship with China.
China's longer-term opportunity is to build an auto industry based not on the gasoline engine but on alternative fuels, skipping a generation of technology as it has done in areas such as telecoms.
The Seattle-based coffee-shop chain is the latest symbol of American consumer culture to make its mark on China's rapidly changing urban landscape.
Until this year, all CGE models were based on tariff data from 1997 and hence attributed all liberalisation since then (such as that coming from China's accession to the World Trade Organisation) to the Doha round.
Based on some crude assumptions, and on the expectation that other big emerging economies will copy it, China's economic integration could boost annual growth in developed economies by half a percentage point over the next two decades.
China and Jordan now are investigating the counterfeiting of Pfizer drugs based on a company investigation, the company's Mr. Clark said.
Choy, a Hawaii-based restaurateur and cookbook author, is behind some of the premium-class menus on American's routes to China and Japan.
In March, DLG, in its WorldWatchReport survey, revealed that for the first time, China surpassed the U.S. as the country exhibiting the highest demand for luxury watches based on Internet searches.
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