Vera Wang's collections were previously distributed in China only through high-end boutiques and department stores.
Credit cards have become popular in China only over the past few years, as consumer demand has risen.
Many economists say India will achieve trade parity with China only when it develops a more mature manufacturing base.
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China only recently started buying peanuts from other countries like India as its appetite for peanut oil and other peanut products expanded.
Electronic cigarettes, first sold outside China only over the past seven years or so, have few solid studies attesting to their benefits for helping smokers quit.
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With China only having 75% of their roads paved, there will be years of more construction work and earth moving going on, according to the U.S. China Business Council in Washington.
Those numbers were even more disparate 8 years ago, when the Fortune data started: in 2005 the U.S. had 176, China only 16, India a mere 5 of the top 500 multinationals.
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China only produces about 4 million barrels per day, and imports the remaining amount, making the Asian giant the second largest importer of oil, says the EIA. The largest importer of oil in the world has been the U.S., with an intake of 8.7 million barrels per day, according to the EIA. Japan imports the third most oil, at 4.3 million barrels per day.
This is an incredible statistic considering that China is only in the early stages of smartphone adoption. 3G penetration in China stands at only about 18% currently and is growing strongly.
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This is an incredible statistic considering that China is only in the early stages of smartphone adoption. 3G penetration in China stands at only about 19% currently and is growing strongly.
This is an incredible statistic considering that China is only in the early stages of smartphone adoption. 3G penetration in China stands at only about 20% currently and is growing strongly.
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In the whole of China, only 40, 000 merchants are equipped to swipe a credit card.
China will only sink capital into green-field East Siberian reserves sitting far closer to their border.
The successful launch in China is only going to make it that much more difficult.
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For one thing, Internet usage in places such as China is only just beginning to take off.
China said only that the film's screening had been halted for "technical reasons" without elaborating what that meant.
Jackson was quick to mention his projection of China is only meant to be interpreted for next year or two.
Remember that just a few years ago, China would only announce something it had done in space after the event.
''It is an important signal that the United States and China not only can but will work together in Asia.
With capacity thus constrained, a pick-up in demand from the likes of China could only lead to one result: higher prices.
China has only around 3, 000 cinemas, with less than a tenth of the screens in America for a population five times as big.
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In China, only about 5% do, and despite falling prices the machines are still too expensive and complicated for the average Chinese family.
In part, the decline was down to the collapse of trade with the Soviet block: new trade with China filled only part of the hole.
By comparison, China is only 30 years into its industrialization process.
China has only imported 779 tonnes of silver in the year-to-date as against the 1, 153 tonnes that it took in last year in the same timeframe.
The same trend will spread to other key Asian markets such as India, which has lagged China by only a few years as startup India has developed.
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According to the World Bank, China spends only 5.7% of its GDP on these items and other forms of social protection, such as payments to support the very poor.
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In addition, the phone comes with Meizu's unique Flyme OS, which features a custom designed UI, as well as cloud services such as data syncing, music store (China-only), and an applications market.
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That means that, even with China allowing only a modest nominal appreciation of the yuan against the dollar, American firms are looking a lot more competitive than they were a few years ago.
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