We note that the two countries cited by McMillion, China and Brazil, typically have lower revenue per square foot figures.

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The 22-story Park Hotel, the tallest building in China when it opened in 1934, looms over People's Square -- once the oval of the city's horse-racing track.

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Back in China, Pacific Andes is constructing a 3.5-million- square-foot processing complex in Hongdao, near Qingdao.

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With a booming economy, and a land mass of 9.6 million square kilometers, approximately the same as the United States, China seems to have an insatiable appetite for these vehicles.

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That's added some 27 million square feet of shopping space to cities like Beijing and Guangzhou in China and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.

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There's also the intangible delight derived from cooking in a kitchen where everything is within arms' reach, or eating off the beautiful china set that was locked in a cabinet when they lived in a 1, 500-square foot home, she said.

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China Central Television, the government broadcaster, said the blast affected an area of 17, 000 square meters.

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The increase, equal to more than 150, 000 square miles, or an area almost three times larger than New York state, would be based on China's forest cover in 2005.

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