Still, the number of Google Web searches by mainland-Chinese Internet users has risen over the past two years, said Mr. Alegre, who is based in Tokyo and often visits Beijing and Shanghai.
About 100 of the 600 graduates annually go to study abroad in countries including Australia, Singapore, Japan, France, Britain and the United States, and the rest usually go to top universities, often in Beijing.
In fact, in the course of a long career in the Foreign Service, Freeman served in capacities - notably as ambassador to Saudi Arabia and as the number two man in Embassy Beijing - where the job often is seen as representing the host government to his own, rather than the other way around.
Many of the Chinese companies involved are privately held, like Shuanghui, as opposed to the big state-owned enterprises that often act on behalf of Beijing on the international stage.
So we often boarded a bus to the Beijing Film Archive and watched movies.
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Yet although they remain tiny compared with Chinese giants like ICBC and China Construction Bank, there is often more than a whiff of Beijing about the Indian state lenders.
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Most China watchers believe that China will allow the yuan to appreciate steadily against the dollar, and a 7 percent rate of annual appreciation is often cited as a rate that Beijing is comfortable with.
Mr. Schwazer said Wednesday he struggled to cope with the pressures of his newfound stardom in the wake of Beijing, particularly the physical demands of competing more often in an endurance sport he says he didn't enjoy.
As I often tell foreign audiences, China is not just Beijing, Shanghai and a handful of major international cities.
Often the favourites - as he certainly was in Beijing - it seems as if the huge expectations placed on South Korean archers have simply proved too much.
Together, the pair has often been seen cheering on Dutch sportsmen and women at Olympics from Beijing, to Vancouver and London.
Private equity doesn't often show up on the to-do lists economists propose for Beijing as leaders trying to effect a transition to domestic consumption.
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