The electricity production numbers are especially important because in China they have historically exceeded growth of GDP by about 15%.
And because in China and India men higher up the social ladder find wives more easily than those lower down, the social problems of bachelorhood tend to accumulate like silt among the poorest people and (in India) the lowest castes.
And yes it is partly because Apple assembles in China, because Foxconn marshalls 1.3 million people to build electronics.
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Will they not hold their heads up high at the Parade of Nations because factories in China produced their outfits?
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And now the enterprise requirements, because in India, in China, in Southeast Asia, there's a growing need for servers and storage and networking.
Profits, for example, were dropping, in part because of huge reinvestment to cover the expansion in sales, but also because China began to overheat in 2007.
And today, in China, because China has become bigger and bigger, it's really a big country, plays very important role in the world, so we've been called like an international factory.
Second, as Shell President John Hofmeister pointed out in his testimony, prices are shooting skyward in part because of rising demand in China and India, the rising cost of materials and labor, and international events, such as supply disruptions in the Niger Delta.
The life insurance industry is an interesting one in China because it is, in essence, another piece of the puzzle that may ultimately explain how China will make the transition from an economy led by exports and government investment, to one that that is led by consumption and investment by the private sector.
"The trend is shifting, because in the 1970s China enacted the one-child policy, " Pao says.
And they buy Panameras and Caymans because true prestige in China is to be driven in a big sedan, not drive yourself in a sports car.
But few places in the world embraced Art Deco with the fervor of Shanghai, a city obsessed with fashion and fixated on being up-to-date -- in part because of the view, prevalent in China at the time, that only by modernizing could the country regain its strength and stand up to Western imperialism and a militant Japan.
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An entrepreneur selling mints in tins with a Democratic donkey logo was barred from the convention because his tins were made in China.
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Segal knows someone who recently got hired by McKinsey in China because he was already settled there.
And, I think because of Yahoo today in China we've been focused on entertainment, sports and finance.
Eight years ago GM scuttled its first joint venture in China because it was such a miserable failure.
But the main takeaway from the report is that U.S. companies are in China because of the Chinese consumer, not the American consumer.
Gillette found its Duracell brand losing market share to domestic battery makers in China because many Chinese consumers didn't want to spend much on batteries.
Alternative lending is popular in China because state-owned banks tend to favour large companies, particularly state-owned enterprises, leaving small and medium-sized companies starved of credit.
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As factories relocate to other countries, local wages will rise faster than they did in China because the potential pools of surplus labor are smaller.
One is of a glut: the world price of soya has fallen by 40% from its March peak, mainly because of lower demand in China.
Unlike its competitors, Stern said the independent watch maker has resisted the temptation to open up "massively" in China because he believed it would damage the company's integrity.
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Moreover, Tesla is not likely to benefit from favorable government policies in China because, for the most part, they are reserved for electric cars manufactured in the country.
Sinopec, one of China's largest state-controlled firms, is mostly a refiner, but that business is tough in China because the government keeps consumer fuel prices low, pressuring profit margins.
Granted, trucks used in developed markets are not quite comparable to those in China because they must comply with stricter emission standards and include many, many more features than their Chinese counterparts.
Buick is mostly in business because of China, the leading buy of that GM model, and the No. 2 economy has long beat the U.S. as the global auto market to be in.
If so, the normal weapon to cool an overheating economy, higher interest rates, is likely to prove partly self-defeating in China because a rise in interest rates would lure in yet more hot money.
The government here is very smart, and if they see that you are the best in class, they will be delighted to see you set up shop in China because they know that it will help the diffusion of knowledge into the country.
"I would be more cautious in reaching a conclusion because the first quarter of every year in China is complicated, " Mr. Singh said in an interview.
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