It's a rather nondescript city, the capital of Anhui province in the rice belt of central China.
It has been in the headlines anew in recent weeks after an apparent clone of it was discovered in central China.
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She moved to Shanghai five years ago from Henan province in central China in order to be with her migrant parents.
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Relief efforts were underway Tuesday, a day after a powerful earthquake struck central China, killing as many as 12, 000 people, officials said.
In Gansu and Qinghai Provinces and throughout north-central China, people of nine different ethnic groups share a music tradition known as Hua er.
This year many manufacturers have shuttered factories, relocating to cheaper locations in central China and Vietnam, says Todd Lee, managing director of Global Insight's Greater China group.
By the time of the Han dynasty - still more than 2, 000 years ago - China's borders already closely resembled those of eastern and central China today.
It enjoys immense natural resources and dominance of international trade routes to and from south central China and the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean.
"Sentiment is severely battered by a string of negative news, especially the earnings warnings from some blue chip companies like ZTE, " said Zhang Gang, analyst at Central China Securities.
The Seal Engravers Society of Xiling in Zhejiang Province, central China, which was founded a century ago, preserves the art of seal engraving along with approximately a hundred other specialized institutions.
Another worker, who would identify himself only as Mr. Xiao, started as an assembly-line worker almost three years ago, just after graduating from a technical school in central China, where Hon Hai recruited him.
Mr Sha, the company's best manager, who ran a rubber-parts factory in the mountains of Anhui province in central China, secretly set up a rival plant down the valley which he financed by siphoning money from the Asimco joint venture.
Under the framework deal with China, Turkmenistan planned to export 5 bcm to China in 2010 using the first trunk of the Central Asia-China pipeline, and to then increase these exports to 40 bcm per year by 2012, when the second trunk line of the pipeline is to be completed.
Add to this a proposed pipeline to carry Turkmen gas to eastern China, and Central Asia could be fuelling China's economy soon.
But shortly afterwards, China's central bank established a domestic competitor, China UnionPay, and gave it a de facto monopoly over the handling of local-currency payments between merchants and banks.
China Central Television, the government broadcaster, said the blast affected an area of 17, 000 square meters.
On Monday, China central bank advisor Xia Bin was at a Beijing economics forum.
The recall follows allegations against Volkswagen by China's national state-run television broadcaster, China Central Television.
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He shows up at China Central Television talk shows, real-estate forums and online video interviews.
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Meanwhile, China Central Television reports three more Chinese government ships patrolling near the disputed islands yesterday.
Right now, the market expects a more dovish stance from Brazil and China central banks, in particular.
"It's also essential to building China's own space station, " he told the state broadcaster China Central Television.
Some Central Bankers in China have said that the major banks and developers could survive a 30% correction.
And in China, smog is starting to clear in some parts of the country, China Central Television reports.
Earlier this year, China Central Television launched CCTV Africa, also headquartered in Kenya.
State broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) first criticised Apple on 15 March on a show about consumer rights and safety.
Footage broadcast by China Central Television on Monday showed several damaged carriages still lying on the ground at the site.
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