His family has their roots in China, where his CP Group accounts for more than one-quarter of China's poultry exports.

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Despite the fact that the U.S. is returning, albeit at a tortoise pace, to some of its gritty manufacturing roots, China remains the go-to spot for imports.

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The precise modern calendar we take for granted has roots in ancient China, India, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Arabia and Rome.

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It will take years before we will see a grass-roots entrepreneur in China or India who could shake up the establishment as much as Steve Jobs did.

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Plenty have bumps and bruises to show for it, whether by outsourcing to manufacturers in need of tighter quality controls--see toymaker Mattel 's recent travails in China--or by planting new roots in foreign soil.

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Plenty have bumps and bruises to show for it, whether by outsourcing to manufacturers in need of tighter quality controls--see toymaker Mattel 's (nyse: MAT - news - people ) recent travails in China--or by planting new roots in foreign soil.

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China Construction Bank (CCB) has its roots in development banking.

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"It feels like we don't have roots, " he says, then adds that it feels like China has "grown up so fast" over the last decade.

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