This unwillingness and failure to segment the Chinese market has led to an ever more vicious cycle of rising user acquisition costs for startups.

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The Chinese banking regulator estimated that segment of public finance has grown at a clip of 25% year over year.

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For a relatively new fashion brand, this focus on China just goes to cement the fact that the Chinese consumer is an important market segment for the fashion and luxury sector.

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Hutchison Managing Director Canning Fok liked that idea but also saw an opportunity to get in on sales of traditional Chinese medicine in China, a segment of the pharma business that had not yet opened up to foreign investment.

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He tells us that the hottest segment of the market is Chinese antiquities.

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Across the Chinese retail sector, gold, silver and jewelry demand was the strongest performing segment in 2011, says J.

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