China Integrated Energy, Inc. (CBEH) : A non-state-owned company, China Integrated has three main businesses: the wholesale distribution of finished oil and heavy oil products, the production and sale of biodiesel, and the operation of retail gas stations.

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China Telecom is an integrated telecom service provider of China offering both mobile and landline services.

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As China becomes more integrated, it will become richer, and this is good for the Chinese and good for the rest of the world.

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EC.com, China's first vertically integrated procurement firm.

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Unicom's edge is that it is the only listed integrated telecommunication company in China, with wireless, paging, domestic long distance and Internet divisions.

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In China today, the race is on to build large, horizontally integrated sites or be left behind.

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Another possible explanation posits that the surge in the global discrepancy broadly coincides with both the explosion in vertically integrated businesses, where firms locate different stages of production in different countries, and the increase in China's trade.

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