China first began tightening credit in the spring of 2010 to dampen spiraling property prices.
China first began outselling the U.S. in smartphones in the second half of last year.
At this rate, Apple might one day even put new products on sale in China first.
The reorganisation is the fourth since China first opened its telecoms industry to limited, state-orchestrated competition.
This brings total orders for the C919, China first large commercial plane, to 380.
The ZTE Grand S will be available for online purchase in China first in Q1 of 2013.
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The China First Project is a thermal coal mine in the undeveloped Galilee Basin coal region in Queensland.
It was in September 2009 that China first proposed creating the international centre under the auspices of UNESCO.
China first allowed its tightly controlled currency to rise in 2005 when the Senate was on the verge of passing a similar measure.
From the start of 2010 (when China first started publishing quarterly BOP data) we experiment with various currency proportions, before settling on the following composition of FX reserves: 60% held in USD assets, 30% in euros and 5% each in yen and sterling.
Bank of China, the first of China's Big Four banks to report half-year profits, also warned that international markets remained "sharply precarious".
The astronauts are aiming to complete China's first manned docking with the Tiangong-1 module already in orbit, an important first step towards China's aim of creating a working space station by 2020.
China has first class technologies and astronauts, and therefore I'm confident we will fulfil the manual rendezvous.
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And based on my experience in China the first week of January, what is happening there is profound.
"China will first get to know the Arctic better, and then it is able to join effectively international cooperation, " Mr. Gao said, according to Xinhua.
In recent months, Amazon has been making a push to expand its offerings in China, first launching an online bookstore and then offering cloud storage services.
The lessons Crow drew from observing Western companies in China, first as a journalist and newspaper publisher and then as an advertising executive in Shanghai, remain relevant.
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Chinese telcos, especially China Unicom first came out with the strategy of selling low cost smartphones to attract more 3G subscribers. 3G subscribers are typically heavy data users and help China Unicom in increasing its average revenue per user.
Born in Hangzhou in 1964, Ma first made a name for himself with his idea to start an online directory called "China Pages, " widely regarded to be China's first internet-based company.
One thing no one knows yet though is who will be China's first man in space.
Twelve years later he would become China's first boxing gold medalist in the Olympics.
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The New York-based artist visited China for the first time in 1994 and again in 2001.
It carried two astronauts this time, one more than China's first manned flight in 2003.
He is a graduate of China's first Jewish-studies program, which was pioneering in every way.
To be sure, there are many areas in which China does rank first in the world.
The kind of heavy industries promoted in China's first five-year plan, for example, still enjoy tremendous privileges.
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Flag carrier Air China said yesterday first-half profit plunged 74% amid rising costs and slower international business.
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He reportedly was instrumental in starting China's first private bank, Minsheng Bank, which provides loans to private companies.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the planet, China completed its first underwater railway tunnel on Saturday.
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