Thanks to the WTO, foreign firms are no longer required to hand over technology in exchange for entry to China's market.
Rarely have such foreign products made such an impact on China's market.
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It plans to open an assembly plant in Qingdao, a major port in northern China and the site of the 2008 Olympic sailing regatta, to customize yachts for China's market.
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People involved in the deal said it could open China's market more to Smithfield sausage, hams and other meat, instead of paving the way for broadening channels into the U.S. for the Chinese company's products.
People involved in the deal said it could open China's market more to Smithfield sausage, hams and other meat, instead of pave the way for broadening channels into the U.S. for the Chinese company's products.
The newcomers will shrink China's market share by 15%, says Dudley Kingsnorth of IMCOA. The only existing producer outside Asia not dependent on Chinese ores is Silmet, a rare-metal firm in Estonia, which says it is now besieged by eager customers.
Baidu's dominance of China's search market has grown in the wake of Google Inc.
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Buying European bonds helps to shore up China's vital market, stop the slide of the euro that would make China's exports more expensive, protect Chinese euro-denominated assets and diversify Chinese reserves away from dollars.
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U.S. companies want access to China's burgeoning market for renewable energy, and clean and efficient technologies.
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With China's car market booming, foreign manufacturers are falling over themselves to invest in the country.
Movie-industry insiders question whether such films could even be made these days, given China's growing market importance.
Meanwhile, the gradual deregulation of China's book market raises hopes of a strategic alliance or outright sale.
If wages continued to rise at this pace, it would mark a hairpin turn in China's labour market.
The world's three dominant cellphone makers, Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola, account for upwards of 85% of China's handset market.
Although China's overall market is a long way from saturation, the lucrative segment of it may not be far off.
Less was said about whether Coke was taking the right approach to growth within China's juice market in the first place.
China's art market has boomed in recent years as the country's newly affluent look to collect their own art and heritage.
Until several years ago, China's gold market was strictly controlled by the central bank, which bought all the gold mined domestically.
They complain that barriers to China's domestic market mean that India is mostly shipping unrefined minerals and primary goods, getting finished products in return.
Historically, given the sheer size of China's domestic market, there there was little need for many Chinese companies to look beyond their own borders.
Mr. Ng added that China's property market is expected to bottom in April or May, after which sales would recover, but prices may remain flat.
Supposing that the real wealth of affluent Chinese lies somewhere between the two estimates, China's potential market must be somewhere between those of Belgium and Australia.
Of that, 16% is held in UK stock, compared with 28% in the US. Less than 2% is held in China's stock market, but that may grow.
Glencore said China is reviewing its proposed merger with Xstrata with a focus on whether the combined company would exert too much influence on China's copper market.
Last year the firm controlled 63% of China's insulin market.
Meanwhile, after a series of big ups and downs, China's stock market, as measured by the Shanghai Composite Index, is trading right where it was about a decade ago.
Some of the bigger and better of the more than 200 firms waiting for listing on the second board have given up, turning their attention instead to China's main market.
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