The food comes from China, too, a vendor in the fruit and vegetable market explains.
Now, 95 percent of neodymium comes from China, and last year, demand within China shot way up.
The global market is in the 100, 000 to 150, 000 tonnes a year range and yes, currently almost all of that comes from China.
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But as Francisco Blanch of Merrill Lynch notes, most of the incremental demand for oil comes from China, India and the Middle East, where the prices of petrol and diesel are subsidised or capped, leaving drivers with little incentive to cut back.
For emerging markets, the boost to incomes that comes from selling to China is welcome, but there are worries about unwelcome side effects.
Noji's peek into China comes from 23, 000 heavy-duty vehicles spread across the nation's vastness, each fitted with an antenna that via satellite link tells Komatsu where it is and what it's doing.
Demand, in the current market, comes from, surprise surprise, China.
When it comes to attracting top-level scientists in China, the only real competition comes from academia, since the other big drug companies have not set up significant research centres.
As soon as something comes on the market, a buyer from China snaps it up.
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As some 70% of China's energy comes from coal, efforts to achieve this have been closely watched.
Credit Suisse estimates that 35% of China COSCO's revenue and 32% of China Shipping Container Lines' comes from the Asia-Europe route, while earnings from European trade for the country's port operators varies between 7.3% to 34.1%.
Further evidence of emerging markets' potential comes from the experience of Britain's AstraZeneca in China.
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The steep drop in the 2011 contracts comes from the plunge in photovoltaic panel prices over the past two years, largely due to competition from China.
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Whilst Mr Gore, conscious of his union supporters, held back a little in his support for permanent trading relations with China, Mr Bush, who comes from the free-trading, pro-immigration side of his party, was more effusive about globalisation.
Instead of drinking stale coffee from a Styrofoam cup while leaning over a salesman's desk, the Maybach customer relaxes in a rich leather chair and sips from a china cup as his virtual car comes to life on a flat plasma screen.
Instead of drinking stale coffee from a Styrofoam cup while leaning over a salesman's desk, the Maybach customer relaxes in a rich leather chair and sips from a china cup as his virtual car comes to life on a 50-inch flat plasma screen.
The amusement comes not from it being to do with Apple, but rather that someone in China, against all too much of prevailing local practice, seems to think that the law should in fact protect intellectual property.
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From Changsha in Hunan province, one of China's most productive TV markets, comes True Encounters.
This second trading week of 2013 comes to a close with investors analyzed weak results from Wells Fargo (WFC) and higher inflation in China.
China produces over 15% of the world's total energy, and much of that comes from the burning of coal.
And aside from making a few MD-80s for McDonnell Douglas between 1985 and 1994, the closest China comes to being a manufacturer of big-league commercial aircraft is the Airbus assembly plant in Tianjin, where it puts together A320s from kits.
The move by China comes after European manufacturers alleged Chinese firms were selling panels below their market value, thanks to subsidies from Beijing.
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