It owns one of China's travel industry's best-known brands and generates 3% of China's hotel room reservations nightly.
It is also making cheaper PVC-based vinyl gloves, which are marketed to the food industry, in China, where it now has one plant and is adding a second.
On April 27th, China's National Council of Light Industry said it wanted to merge most of the household-products makers into publicly traded firms by the turn of the century.
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The energy industry estimates it will costs billions for China to meet tougher fuel standards.
The life insurance industry is an interesting one in China because it is, in essence, another piece of the puzzle that may ultimately explain how China will make the transition from an economy led by exports and government investment, to one that that is led by consumption and investment by the private sector.
The sale has proved controversial in Canada, amid concerns that it will give China too much influence over Canada's oil industry.
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She says it's a commercial reality that everybody in China's film industry has to face.
China also is home to a booming gold-mining industry that keeps it as the world's largest gold producer.
Similarly, if China trails India in IT services at present, its recent investments in the industry suggest it does not plan to lag for long.
China has said it will withdraw support for foreign investment in the country's car industry to encourage domestic carmakers, according to state media.
It wants to see the success of the American shale gas industry replicated in China.
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China had bought it as part of an earlier effort to build its own photo-film industry.
When China joined the World Trade Organisation in December 2001, it agreed to open up its financial industry, but only gradually.
Beijing insists its auto industry needs protection as it forms conglomerates, but there is little sign China's 120 auto-makers want to join hands, linked as many are to local interests.
This is going to be a huge global industry - as China and India become high-impact consumers - and we should lead it.
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While the U.S. real estate industry is in a Depression with a capital D, China is concerned that its real estate industry is growing too fast and is also trying to slow it to a more sustainable pace.
"Malaysia is self-sufficient in chicken meat production, " the industry executive said, adding that some local broilers use imported chicken meat cuts from China because it is cheaper than domestic equivalents.
As an initial matter, we note that the record indicates it has become common practice for members of the domestic industry to import the subject merchandise from China as a means of supplementing their domestic production in the market place.
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