On the flip side, Chinese business people generally respect cultural differences and won't expect westerners to be fully customized to their tradition, analysts say.

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Customers often stay into the weekend because many Chinese small-business people like to socialize with their partners.

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Now as more Chinese people travel for business and for pleasure, these types of hotels are becoming commonplace in modernized China.

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The latest estimates suggest there are more than a million Chinese people living and doing business on the continent.

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Political stability may also lure business people and investment, including ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs.

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As an aside, in a previous decade I would tell American business people that Shanghai, Beijing and other Chinese cities were not irrelevant backwaters.

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At a meeting packed with local business people, politicians and journalists in a Chinese restaurant, she distanced herself from pre-judging any options at this stage.

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Xu Xin, president of Deer Jet, a subsidiary of the Hainan Airlines Group, told China Daily that he is very optimistic about the Chinese business aviation market due to the increasing number of rich people in China and their willingness to spend more on business jets.

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