We made the decision to expand to China in 2008 and opened our first store in 2010.
But according to the UN, Japan was almost 2.8 times wealthier than China in 2008 (see charts).
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DreamWorks Animation's "Kung Fu Panda" was the top animated film released in China in 2008, according to the company.
Too young to compete at Athens in 2004, Ennis was on course to make her Olympic debut in China in 2008, until a foot injury forced her to withdraw.
As for the Wii, Nintendo did announce that it would launch the console in China in 2008 (and iQue even obtained the CCC in December 2007), but that never happened after it failed to get the other authorities' approval.
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By 2008 China imported three times as much (it now accounts for 60% of total world imports).
From 1990 to 2008 China's workforce swelled by about 145m people, many of them making the long journey from its rural backwaters to its coastal workshops.
Over the ten years to 2008 China's exports grew by an annual average of 23% in dollar terms, more than twice as fast as world trade.
"They have done a substantial amount of work retrofitting older buildings, " said Mr. Ammann, of GRF Davos, who inspected school damage in China following the 2008 quake.
As a measure of how big the auto business has become in China, before 2008 the assemblers and components companies were all able to fit in the old convention center.
It will be Wiggins' first time in a GB vest on the track since his heroic efforts in China in November 2008 with the 29-year-old Londoner, fourth in the Tour de France in 2009, also a possibility for the track World Championships in the Netherlands which run from 23 to 27 March.
It plans to open an assembly plant in Qingdao, a major port in northern China and the site of the 2008 Olympic sailing regatta, to customize yachts for China's market.
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Mr. Zou proved them right, winning gold for China in both the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.
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As many as 20m workers returned to the countryside when the crisis broke in 2008 and China's exports slumped.
In fact, since 2008, China has accounted for almost a third of new web users, adding 215 million to the connected population.
Last year it pushed up fuel-efficiency standards for cars sold in China, and by 2008 it will raise them above federal American levels.
But the big change is that in 2008, China accounted for just about 2 or 3% of the global seaborne market for metallurgical coal.
After a welcome appreciation alongside a stronger dollar in 2008, China's currency has fallen on a trade-weighted basis in recent weeks as the dollar has tumbled.
With the International Olympic Committee (IOC) awarding the right to stage the Olympics in 2008 to China on July 13th, the country's leaders now have a colossal task ahead of them.
But Avis's big expansion plans (from the current ten rental stations in China to 70 by 2008) are largely driven by demand from businesses with a large share of foreign investment.
When the 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit southwest China on May 12, 2008, Beichuan county was among the hardest hit.
In January, 2008, RIM China announced that BlackBerry sales through China Mobile were on track although 2007 was the expected start date.
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And in the lead up to the 2008 crisis, China had exactly the same reasons for holding back on the internationalisation of the yuan.
He was voted designer of the year 2008 by Esquire China.
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He spoke of his joy at his success at Lee Valley, and how failing to qualify for the 2008 Olympics in China had spurred him on.
The IPO research shop found that an investor who bought all 68 U.S.-listed China initial public offerings from 2008 through mid-June would have seen an average loss of 24%, compared with an average return of 25% on non-Chinese IPOs.
It has been used to coordinate requests for relief efforts, track victims in camps and shelters, and coordinate volunteers in the 2005 Pakistan earthquake, the 2006 mud slide in the Philippines, the 2007 earthquake in Peru and the 2008 earthquake in China.
Accounts of the deadly attacks last fall in Mumbai, India, the May 2008 earthquake in China and last week's plane crash show what used to be just a virtual gathering place to communicate pet peeves or plans for the weekend has evolved into a go-to spot for eyewitness news -- sometimes even before mainstream media has had time to crack the story.
Lower tax rates will also help companies like China Life Insurance in 2007 and 2008, according to Xia.
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