Shanghai, a key Chinese international business hub, has seven H7N9 deaths, more than any other city.
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However, a decline in demand for Chinese exports from key markets in the US and Europe has hurt growth in the sector.
Hornby has reported a heavy half-yearly loss, with the toymaker blaming weak UK and Olympic sales, and disruption at a key Chinese supplier.
Seven have died of H7N9 flu in Shanghai, a key Chinese business hub that has been the hardest hit by the disease so far.
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Meanwhile, Ford, Nissan, Audi, key Chinese and other automakers are lightweighting with familiar metals, saving somewhat less fuel at a comparable cost per gallon.
Figures quoted by the noted China-watcher James Mann in his book About Face showed that Japanese companies increased their share of many key Chinese markets at the expense of US and European rivals in the early 1990s.
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Employing first Chinese graduates of these colleges as liaison staff (and later Mandarin-speaking African college graduates), multinationals should sponsor Chinese faculty research in key areas like petroleum engineering, manufacturing operations and international commerce, and seek out talented students from Angola, Zambia, Congo and Sudan.
It is a widely held view that the Chinese yuan appreciates going into key Sino-US meetings and then stabilizes afterwards.
The combination ticks every box, bringing a presence in key markets for Chinese clients and exposure to a sophisticated foreign firm with skills in areas like investment banking and foreign-currency funding.
Understanding the Chinese user and consumer is key.
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Only recently have the inflation levels eased below 4%, prompting the Chinese central bank to cut its key lending rate in June.
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One key trend is that Chinese companies will design as well as manufacture products that are sold into the Chinese market and for the export market.
In our last post, we cited a number of reasons why the widely held view that exports are the key driver of the Chinese economy may no longer be true.
Key players seem to be Chinese and Singaporean sovereign welfare funds (SWF) or some such close cousins.
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The state Senate on Tuesday voted 25-9 to ban the sale, trade and possession of shark fin, a key ingredient in the traditional Chinese soup, sending the bill on to the desk of Gov. Jerry Brown.
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The key, as so often in Chinese business, was to link western know-how with Chinese connections.
Real estate has proven to be the key business for four of these six Chinese women.
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Unfortunately for advertisers, they do not have control of any key technologies that they could transfer to the Chinese government in exchange for access to Chinese consumers.
Though the Chinese yuan's value has been Topic A, key American manufacturers, like the automakers, focus on the yen, suggesting its weakness is the secret to Japan's productive prowess.
"The key factor in its decision has been the Chinese's support of indigenous vendors such as the Chinese Academy of Science's development support of Red Flag Linux OS, " says Gartner analyst Louisa Lui.
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).
As one such wealthy Chinese told Morning Edition, working with the government is the key to getting rich in China.
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The transition to developing high-tech Chinese products is occurring in the automobile industry, and a key approach is to use joint ventures.
Chinese billionaires with A-share companies include Liang Wengen of Sany Heavy Industry, a key rival of Caterpillar in China, and Zhang Jindong, the chairman of Suning Commercial, a self-styled Amazon and Wal-Mart of China.
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As always, the Chinese government will head the list of economic drivers as it continues to make large investments in key sectors such as power generation, transportation, health care and renewable energy.
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