Announced last December, the fund is a collaboration among The9, China Rock Capital Management, Chengwei Ventures, and China Renaissance K2 Ventures.

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The UK comes out looking like a rock star, as does China.

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The fossils were found in northeast China earlier this year, embedded in rock dating back 160 million years, and have been called "Darwinopterus" after the renowned naturalist Charles Darwin.

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He traveled to China four years ago and discovered an indie rock scene in Wuhan, a grimy industrial city of more than 8 million people, where he now owns a club with a Chinese partner.

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And if Americans hear us, they might see the progress that rock 'n' roll music in China has made.

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The deal includes Unilever's Skippy manufacturing facilities in Little Rock, Arkansas and in the Shandong province of China.

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In Tajikistan, on the southern fringes of the ex-Soviet Union, 250 shift-workers are slowly bulldozing a 32-kilometre (20-mile) road from Murgab in the Pamir mountains, eastwards across the rock, salt and sand wilderness of no-man's land, towards China.

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China has some of the largest reserves in the world of shale gas, which is gas trapped in rock formations.

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