It pushed into China years before other automakers saw the promise of the emerging market.
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It lost out to China ten years ago, but has regained its competitiveness against its Asian competitors.
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The company inked a deal to bring its "World of Warcraft" online fantasy game to China seven years ago.
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The results appear to confirm a much larger research project carried out by the Oxford team in China three years ago.
And part of that meant importing, it meant trips to China 25 years ago, and it meant 25 years of growing the business.
Likewise, it should be no surprise that the style market, at all price points, is going to be potent in emerging economies like China for years to come.
In 2007, presumably for much the same reason that it moved to China 20 years ago, it opened a facility in Vietnam which is said to be undergoing a large expansion.
He traveled to China four years ago and discovered an indie rock scene in Wuhan, a grimy industrial city of more than 8 million people, where he now owns a club with a Chinese partner.
The school beefed up its recruiting effort in China three years ago, said Dean Mark Zupan, after recognizing that the Chinese education system's focus on quantitative skills would provide a good grounding for students in its finance-heavy programs.
Although Amazon has run an e-commerce operation in China for years, it has failed to build up a significant market share as local competitors such as Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd. and Beijing Jingdong Century Trading Co. have pressed to attract new customers.
The opportunity to acquire healthy local competitors was taken off the table by China several years ago, and well-heeled local companies and entrepreneurs are ready to pounce on any troubled companies in an attractive industry such as construction equipment and preserve their independence.
The origin of the practice is unclear - padlocks have appeared in China for years at sacred sites, and there was a flurry of padlocking in the Hungarian town of Pecs in the 1980s, when university students locked them on a bridge next to the university either as a symbol of undying love or their determination to finish their courses.
But we're now in China, twenty years into this experiment, China has enjoyed tremendous economic growth, almost ten percent a year for a decade.
Lam: I've been with the newspaper for 12 years, covering China for the past 10 years.
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In the last few years China has had increases in standards of living and income that are pretty much equivalent to what took 500 years in the West.
Facebook has not entered China while Baidu competed with Google for several years in China.
Five years ago China surpassed the US in gold production and five years from now it will own more gold than the US Federal government.
Still, inflation has been tolerable for China in recent years for the most part.
Growing emphasis on health in China in recent years is turning sports apparel into fashion.
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Disney plans on expanding from 11 to 148 schools across China in five years.
In the past 15 years China's imports of commodities have risen more than tenfold (see right-hand chart, above).
Consider: Over the last 20 years China has boomed, taking it from a backwater to the world's second-biggest economy.
As a result, within a few years China may well have the most advanced railway industry in the world.
AIG, an American giant, has been operating profitably in China for several years.
"The Vietnamese market is where China was ten years ago, " says Henry Nguyen, managing general partner of IDG Ventures Vietnam.
It is hard to know just how the technology will make its way back to China in the years ahead.
Over the past few years China has been swept by two broad social changes, both of which reflect middle-class influence.
As part of the deal, no other foreign film company will be allowed to manufacture in China for four years.
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