The Japanese government has actively sought Chinese tourists in recent years, easing visa requirements in order to expand such travel.
Although the store is named Toy Tokyo, Mr. Levarek says he has been buying toys from U.S. and Chinese suppliers in recent years because importing from Japan has been too expensive.
While ICBC has consistently been the most-profitable big state-owned Chinese bank in recent years, the country's entire banking sector is grappling with slowing profit growth and a potential for more bad loans.
In recent years Chinese workers gained leverage due to an unanticipated labor shortage, Langfitt says.
Still, most billionaires on the list have companies listed on China's stock exchanges (212) rather than U.S. exchanges (211), despite Chinese markets underperforming in recent years.
Moreover, Chinese banking institutions in recent years have been generating substantial fee income by creating off-balance-sheet loan products that may leave them on the hook, either formally or informally, for losses.
In recent years the Chinese have been able to travel abroad more freely to study and acquire skills.
Chinese manufacturing wages have, in recent years, been rising at 16% or so a year.
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In recent years, the Chinese government has banned tobacco companies from public advertising and from sponsoring sports and cultural events.
Outbound Chinese tourism has expanded rapidly in recent years.
Right now China's auto industry resembles America's at its highly fragmented start: There are 120 or so Chinese companies that have popped up in recent years.
Liang is part of a wave of Chinese entrepreneurs and rich list members in recent years to obtain most of their wealth through listed companies and relatively transparent means.
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But GM's investments aren't merely about meeting Chinese demand, which has actually slowed in recent years.
Chinese authorities have stepped up food inspections in recent years after a series of scandals over fake or shoddy goods.
The enormous amounts of liquidity that led to the housing and commodities bubbles of recent years cannot be blamed on thrifty Chinese but on the excess money creation of Greenspan and Bernanke.
Supporters of China's Olympic bid argue that the growing prosperity of recent years has brought about a greater openness in Chinese society - that ordinary men and women are increasingly free to live as they like and go where they wish.
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They are finding themselves in fierce competition, though, with the wave of Chinese PE firms and RMB denominated funds that have been formed in recent years.
Chinese cuisine is the most popular, but years of Japanese occupation, recent Korean arrivals and the influence of the US add up to a rich menu.
Accounting scandals took down numerous Chinese companies and even the savviest of their U.S. investors in recent years.
Steel production has grown steadily in recent years in China, and rose 3.1% in 2012, as the Chinese government invested heavily in roads, railways and other infrastructure to support economic growth.
Yi Xianrong of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences says housing costs, which have been rising fast in many cities in recent years, are not given due weight in the index (food accounts for a third of the index and housing less than 14%).
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The departure of two marquee signings will represent a major blow for the standing of Chinese football, which has sought to improve its image after a number of match-fixing scandals in recent years.
Peruvian food has gone international in recent years with television chefs such as Acurio taking the likes of cerviche and lomo saltado (a Chinese-Peruvian fusion dish made with shredded beef) into the mainstream.
The premium spirits business has been a rare source of growth in recent years, much of which has been generated by rising sales to emerging market consumers and particularly Chinese consumers.
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