"Investment and sales are way out of sync, " says Kan Xiaomang, information department director for China Modern Bookshop ( www.modernbooks.com.cn ).
The story of migration since then is the story of modern China, as migrant workers have transformed China's economy.
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This contract will support tens of thousands of American jobs and provide China with a modern fleet of passenger planes.
Mr Yu and Ms Huang are just two of the thousands of young people trying to navigate China's modern marriage market.
Before Mr Kissinger himself enters the narrative, the reader is offered 200 pages of history of modern China and its foreign relations.
She is afraid of what will be lost when those who have lived through China's modern history inevitably grow old and die.
His CP Group is partnering with farmers to create an agribusiness--see the scale of the silos in the picture above--appropriate to a modern China.
China, a modern-day economic powerhouse in a world of financial uncertainty, sees Cuba with its need for investment and political support as an important ally in its long-range plans to strengthen and expand its ties with the rest of Latin America, he adds.
In pre-modern China, emperors demonstrated their dominance by re-creating rival territories within their own: Sprawling imperial parks, which featured flora and fauna assembled from remote lands, buttressed rulers' authority by showing their ability to both create and possess an elaborate facsimile of the known universe.
China has developed a modern body of maritime law, expanded a dedicated maritime-court infrastructure and encouraged a specialist bar of maritime lawyers.
China can be a modern, fairly rich and self sufficient country able to defend itself against outside forces be they military or economic.
Meng Jin Hui is a manager at Modern Sky, China's largest independent record label.
Mr Zhang, 61, directed some of China's most successful modern martial arts films, including Hero and House of Flying Daggers.
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The labor shortage will inevitably force China to upgrade its most modern factories, including investments in robotics, or face looking manufacturing to inland states and foreign competition.
After losing ground against other countries for nearly two centuries, China entered its period of modern economic growth in 1978 and is now rapidly catching up to the rest of the world.
Chang Mai straddles one of Asia's great crossroads - a southern spur of the Silk Road - fusing commerce and culture between points farther north and west in modern-day China, Laos and Myanmar.
The workshop aims to provide attendees from Nepal, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and China with some of the modern tools and techniques needed to estimate seismic hazard, and to turn these into estimates of seismic risk.
In news from the media industry, whose fortunes are also tied to the consumer and broader economy, Modern Media of China said yesterday it would hook up with licensing partner Bloomberg to offer Businessweek via mobile phone and tablet PC (see related story here).
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Some were awarded for having created an earlier version of a modern sport, like China's claim to soccer or Mongolia's claim of field hockey.
This intricate web of history places the Middle Eastern societies in a special tension with Europe that is not similarly present in the story of modern India, nor China.
The China Art Gallery--a Sinified socialist-style building managed by the Chinese Artists Association and, at the time, only a few steps from the Ministry of Culture--functions as China's national museum of modern art.
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Admirers say Yao has done more for improving China's image overseas than any modern-day politician or diplomat.
In modern times, skiing in China had been mostly invisible to the world until it hosted the Third Asian Winter Games in 1996 (well, even then).
Researchers have been able to trace a line between some of the earliest modern humans to settle in China and people living in the region today.
In addition to developing hotels and shopping centers, Wheelock is also involved in cable television and owns more than two-thirds of Modern Terminals, a southern China shipping operator.
While it has been applauded for depicting modern middle-class life in China, critics say its humor doesn't appeal outside China.
Following a model used by Japan and Korea, China is also encouraging foreign automakers to bring modern emissions and safety technology and share it with their Chinese partners.
As China works to make its capital markets more modern and efficient, a system that allows investors to better understand the central bank's policy leanings is becoming more critical.
China has long recognised that it needs a modern navy, capable of patrolling far from its own shores, and an air force able to defend its far-flung territorial claims.
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