This year 34 private entrepreneurs have been chosen as delegates to the Congress, up from just 17 at the 17th Party Congress in 2007, according to statistics revealed by state-run China Economic Weekly.

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Zimbabwe also promotes tourism from China and twice-weekly direct flights from its capital, Harare, to Beijing, are about to take off.

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Perhaps even more to the point, China's M2 measure of money supply was up 19.5% this November compared to last (Want China Times, quoting China's Southern Weekly, has an excellent, concise article on this subject here, and really nails the issue on its head).

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Yang Xiao (China), Beijing correspondent for the Southern People Weekly.

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But Sadhana Srivastava, in an article in India's Economic and Political Weekly, has recalculated both India's and China's figures for the year 2000 to make a fairer comparison.

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At the Vatican, Pope Francis in his weekly address said his thoughts were with the people of China.

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Probably not, because for the fifth week since this weekly feature began here, major multinationals in Brazil and some in China have dominated the buy and strong buy list of the stock picking analysts at ValuEngine.

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The state-run weekly, which also comes in digital form, aims to explain "the relationship between China and the African continent, " its editor says.

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