Much of it goes into joint ventures with local partners, so Chinese land, labour and capital equipment are put to good use.
Instead, the Chinese government leases the land to its citizens and lets them purchase the property.
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Without some consolidation of land, Chinese farming cannot be efficient.
Chinese agricultural firms tend land in Zambia too.
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Relations between Korea and China have been soured by the murder of a Ming envoy to Korea and a group of exiled Koreans hope to restore ties between the two countries by returning to her native land a Chinese princess they have rescued in the desert.
Meanwhile, the value of land sales in 130 Chinese cities fell 13% in 2011 to 1.86 trillion yuan, with residential land sales plunging 24% to 1.24 trillion yuan last year, China Real Estate Index System said in a separate note earlier.
It has also leased a 12, 000-acre land area to Chinese developers for a zone in Gwadar Port in Baluchistan Province, near the entrance to the Gulf of Oman.
Right now, the Chinese market is still so young that land-grabbing market share early on is what could count in the long run.
The Chinese market - where sales of Jaguar Land Rover's vehicles have risen 80% in the past year - has been rising in importance to the company.
Chinese property developers have reduced their appetite for land purchases amid the tightened credit environment and weaker sales, resulting in some failed land auctions in certain cities.
Do you see much Chinese interest in U.S. agricultural land?
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While Silicon Valley companies were working on the problem, silicon prices fell and Chinese companies like JA Solar, Suntech and Yingli Green Energy rapidly expanded production of conventional solar panels, supported by tens of billions of dollars in inexpensive credit from the Chinese government as well as other subsidies like cheap land.
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Chinese wealth is flowing to the swift responders in a land of a millions of awakening consumers.
Second, Chinese like to own hard, tangible assets such as agricultural land, and COFCO probably got a good deal.
The country's State Forestry Administration estimates that desertification affects 400 million Chinese, many of whom lose the ability to farm their land or graze their animals and join the ranks of the tens of millions of internal environmental refugees, who often migrate to the big cities in search of new homes and jobs.
News that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has moved on from learning Chinese and is now trying his hand at getting closer to the land as part of an annual rethink of how he lives, is a great signal of how important the personal innovation lifestyle is becoming.
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By selling a Spider-Man game through Mforma and its Chinese mobile partners, Marvel can capitalize off the phenomenon, and exploit the huge and growing Chinese cellular market, where there are more cellular handsets in use than land lines.
No clear explanation was given, but a Chinese scholar says higher-level officials worried that dipiao were being traded without land having first been converted to agricultural use.
" "The pilot, after a lot of damage to the aircraft, was faced with a situation of either ditching the aircraft in the ocean or bailing out or landing the aircraft, and he made the choice that everyone would have wanted him to make -- to land at the nearest available airfield, which happened to be on Chinese soil, And he did it well.
In the Land of the Sweets, dancers perform as foreign delicacies: Spanish hot chocolate, Chinese tea, Arabian coffee.
Chinese partners might inject buildings, equipment or what may have appeared at the time to be overvalued land use rights, but never cash.
It's not clear whether Diageo wooed CIC to land this investment, but the company has gone out of its way to ramp up Chinese activities over the past few years.
Many of the poses and compositions were probably borrowed from Chinese ink paintings, and here they come together in a dynamic composition of black birds clustering on land and flying in midair.
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