Because building a public company in China is a symbol of success.

CNN: Jack Ma Talkasia Transcript

The Olympics have become a symbol of China's right to the respect it is due.

ECONOMIST: China

In other words, and as Mr Wen implied, MG's importance is as a symbol of the kind of investment China wishes to make in the UK, to transform Chinese companies into owners of valuable brands rather than just sub-contractors for western businesses.

BBC: Chinese Premier backing the euro and the UK

The Seattle-based coffee-shop chain is the latest symbol of American consumer culture to make its mark on China's rapidly changing urban landscape.

ECONOMIST: Learning to love a strange brew

Apple is a symbol of American innovation, but it has created more jobs in China than in America.

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China's own high-speed railway network has been lauded as a symbol of this country's far-sighted infrastructure investment policy.

BBC: China to the UK's aid?

For Mr Wen, Longbridge - which only six years ago was a symbol of British industrial failure following the collapse of Rover - shows the opportunities available to both China and the UK from deepening industrial ties.

BBC: Chinese Premier backing the euro and the UK