Similar problems plague China's 800 breweries, 600 paper mills and the thousands of firms making household appliances, such as refrigerators and rice cookers.

ECONOMIST: China��s state-owned enterprises

On paper at least, China's gains have been impressive.

ECONOMIST: China's military might

With lower portfolio risk, local investors would also theoretically be able to pay more for Chinese companies, says William Goetzmann, a professor at Yale University who has published a rare paper on the pre-war ties between China's financial markets and the rest of the world.

ECONOMIST: The Shanghai Stock Exchange

Among recent victims are U.S. exporters to China of automobiles, fiber optic cable, chicken, grain, and paper.

FORBES: Antidumping Reform Crucial to U.S. Competitiveness

Reduced flow rates on China's greatest rivers have made hydro plants reduce badly needed power output: many smelters, paper mills and petrochemical plants are no longer sure of getting the huge amounts of water they require.

ECONOMIST: China and water

In the main Beijing office, a homely red-painted house in a courtyard littered with bicycles, visitors would be handed staff cards printed on recycled paper and given metal reusable chopsticks, together with a lecture on how much of China's virgin forest was disappearing for wooden chopsticks every year.

ECONOMIST: Liang Congjie

Thursday's People's Daily says China has opened up markets in manufacturing, agriculture and service industries, citing a White Paper released by the State Council.

BBC: China morning round-up: WTO membership marked

The graphic above shows how much being published in a particular country increased and decreased the odds of a paper being published (1 would mean no change.) The U.S. and China published similar numbers of scientific papers on energy and clean technology, but the U.S. papers were far more likely to be referenced by other researchers.

FORBES: Connect