Thus, we can have the end game where China does not have those things but is not a rich country, or where China is a rich country but which by definition must have those things.
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Despite a fall of almost 4%, China remains the country with the single-largest number of students.
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And in China, smog is starting to clear in some parts of the country, China Central Television reports.
Bank of China, the country's biggest foreign-exchange lender, which hopes to follow in 2005, could be even bigger.
Newspapers across China discuss the country's economic prospects on Friday as inflation data for the past year was released.
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Bank of China is the country's biggest bank for foreign exchange transactions, so the account closure could hurt the North Korean institution.
China, a country with over 4500 years of recorded history, gave the world, gunpowder, paper, compasses, movable type, and even the seismological detector.
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Just looking at China, that country has 122 million consumers who do not yet use an iPhone or Android device, but could afford one.
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Most analysts consider China Life the country's most attractive life company because it has a wider distribution network and stronger brand recognition than its competitors.
More and more, China is the country that moves markets everywhere.
Swift says that European brands like Azimut and Sunseeker have "made a killing" in China as the country's elite discovers the pleasures of messing about on boats.
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"We should avoid any excuse that might lead to the revitalization of trade protectionism, " said Su Ning of the People's Bank of China, the country's central bank.
Starbucks' penetration is perhaps most remarkable of all, given that China is a country of devoted tea drinkers who do not take readily to the taste of coffee.
Second, the Smithian effect mitigates rising inequality in India, a serious issue: 48 billionaires in India own 10.9 percent of the GDP (in China, another country with significant inequality, 95 billionaires represent only 2.6 percent of GDP).
Bank of China, the country's largest foreign-exchange bank, said that its net profit climbed 12% on-year in 2012, higher than analyst expectations. 2012 net profit at Agricultural Bank of China, China's largest rural lender by assets, came out a touch lower than expectations.
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Qianlong greatly expanded the Qing Dynasty, making China perhaps the wealthiest country on earth.
China is a vast country where manufacturing costs vary widely depending upon city and region.
The U.S. has more of these new faces than any other country besides China.
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Separate PMI data from China indicated that the country's manufacturing sector was continuing to grow, albeit slowly.
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The newspaper's Overseas Edition claims further that China has become a country with significant contribution to the wider world.
Last week China became the latest country to announce its own provisional safeguards.
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China today is a country galloping into a century many people believe it will define, one way or the other.
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And with growing popularity of online shopping in the country, China has become a key market for e-commerce with internet firms.
This success means that China is the third country to successfully complete a docking maneuver in space, behind the U.S. and Russia.
He argues that overbuilding in China has helped the country avoid bottlenecks.
China was the first country to officially sanction a gene therapy.
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