For the dining room, Wright devised a china-dish pattern and low-back chairs so as not to obstruct views of the gardens.

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Looking ahead, China is likely to meet its growth targets, but it is not clear how rapidly China will re-balance its pattern of growth.

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One of the academics, Wang Feng, director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Centre for Public Policy, argues that China's demographic pattern had already changed dramatically by the time the one-child policy began in 1980.

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Its 400-year-old synagogue is decorated with blue-and-white willow pattern tiles from China.

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Although the Sars epidemic has disturbed the pattern, the long-term trend shows that China is one of the fastest growing Japanese tourist destinations.

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