Turning on CCTV news last Thursday morning, May 3, I was expecting to see reports of Chinese May Day holiday traffic jams and crowds at resorts.
Looking ahead, demand for TV panels is expected to grow in the next quarter as TV makers prepare for the end-of-year high-demand season and the Chinese National Day holidays.
Looking ahead, although the market for monitor panels will remain stagnant, demand for tablet and notebook panels is expected to increase on seasonal education-related demand while TV panels are expected to lift due to Chinese Labor Day sales and the London Olympics.
"We want to make people feel as if they are home, " says Wei Cheng, a hotel manager in Hangzhou, near Shanghai, although few Chinese homes have Day-Glo walls.
One day a Chinese visitor could be heard rebuking an American official outside the American pavilion, closed because of a technical hitch.
Earlier in the day the Chinese delegation moved out of the official hotel after it was said to be not up to their standards.
After China's re-entry into the international arena, it was hoped that a Chinese writer could one day win acclaim both in China and in the West.
The searching need for faith is written on the faces of the Chinese who pace each day, by the thousands, through the "Confucian forest" in Qufu.
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China Central Television says Beijing's smog reached its highest level on Lantern Festival yesterday as residents set off fireworks to mark the final day of Chinese New Year.
But in 2008 the Chinese government loosened its day-to-day control of top athletes, allowing them to manage their own careers, choose coaches and training regimen, and arrange travel schedules.
Sales of interiors are poised to grow in China, where the company has six joint ventures and is helping up-and-comers like Chery Automobile prepare for the day when Chinese cars hit U.S. soil.
Chinese stocks started the day higher on the back of the official PMI, but failed to hold on to their earlier gains as HSBC's PMI and another sharp fall in Japanese stocks damaged sentiment.
Mid-Autumn Festival is an important day for the Chinese, marked by family reunions and gift-giving.
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President Obama has been meeting throughout the day with the Chinese Premier and leaders from Australia, the UK, France and Japan.
More significantly, Ms Yu says she has long believed that Amazon itself will one day enter the Chinese market.
"At the end of the day, the Chinese are very pragmatic, " says Perry.
One day, when Chinese really get a taste for the juice, maybe the New World will be learning from this really Old World.
The Chinese market had its best day in two months, and the chart of the Shanghai A Share Index is starting to look more interesting.
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Ding Junhui, who won the crown in 2005, will play either Ryan Day or fellow Chinese player Liu Song in the second round, when he enters the competition along with the rest of the top 16.
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In a modest but significant step towards liberalising its currency, China loosened the trading limits for the yuan, allowing prices against the dollar to fluctuate by up to 1% either side of the reference rate set each day by the Chinese central bank.
It also operates a popular Chinese website that offers same-day delivery in major cities, with free styling advice by phone.
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Boundary discussions will feature more prominently than planned during the Chinese delegation's four-day visit to New Delhi and Mumbai, the official added.
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Hues of red and yellow will mark the Chinese New Year while Polish Independence Day will see the city hall turned red and white.
Every major international PE firm has allocated large amounts of capital to the country, and Chinese sources of capital are growing day by day.
Chinese authorities delivered three meals a day in baskets.
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Synaptics' chief scientist, Shawn Day, is close to releasing a phone finger touchpad for writing Mandarin characters--an easier way to key in a mobile text message (the Chinese send millions of them every day).
The articles are then published a day or so later in Chinese.
Though parking lots were jammed with Chinese tour groups and Korean families on day trips, the DMZ appeared to have fewer Western visitors than usual.
This is not the message Gates and Buffett wanted reverberating on the very day that they were entertaining Chinese billionaires in Beijing, trying to persuade them otherwise.
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More Chinese are trying e-commerce every day.
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