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In the rest of the country -- even the country's capital, Beijing -- residents boil their water or buy it in bottles.
CNN: Economic miracle, environmental disaster
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Beijing strictly controls cross-border capital movements as part of its effort to preserve savings at home and protect its banking system from external shocks.
WSJ: Chongqing Court Convicts 18 of Running $10 Billion Money-Smuggling Ring in China
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Anne Stevenson-Yang of J Capital Research in Beijing, in one of her November e-mail alerts, suggests that the uptick in exports may have been partly due to hot-money inflows caused by currency speculation.
FORBES: China's Recent Trade Statistics Have Been Artificially Inflated
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The International Olympic Committee visited China for a four-day inspection of the capital, Beijing, which is bidding to host the games in 2008.
ECONOMIST: Turkish delight
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China has officially opened the world's longest high-speed rail route, linking the capital Beijing with the southern commercial hub of Guangzhou.
BBC: China opens world's longest high-speed rail route
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Zimbabwe also promotes tourism from China and twice-weekly direct flights from its capital, Harare, to Beijing, are about to take off.
ECONOMIST: Booming Chinese interest in Africa is not just about oil
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Beijing Youth Daily says the capital had 83 fire emergencies and 25 firework-related injuries from midnight to 0100, a year-on-year decrease of 44.6% and 28.6% respectively.
BBC: China media: New Year haze
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Some might opt to avoid very expensive cities, such as Beijing or Shanghai, for up-and-coming smaller urban centers such as Chengdu, the provincial capital of agriculturally fecund Sichuan province.
FORBES: Asia's New Landless Peasants?