Regardless, foreign banks are but a speck compared to China-based banks in local operations.
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They said, what do you think about America compared to China?
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Brazil also has a generous land to people ratio, with a large basket of natural resources, including petroleum, for a population that is relatively small (200 million) compared to China and India.
Perhaps even more to the point, China's M2 measure of money supply was up 19.5% this November compared to last (Want China Times, quoting China's Southern Weekly, has an excellent, concise article on this subject here, and really nails the issue on its head).
The Washington Post cites Nicholas Lardy, a respected China-watcher at the Peterson Institute, as saying that urban housing stock accounts for 41% of household wealth in China, compared to 26% in the U.S., though mortgage lending is much more restrictive in China.
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Apple has only eight stores in China compared to 250 in the United States.
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The USA is at the lower end of this trend. 23% strongly agree compared to 41% in China.
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Consumption is just 36% of GDP in China compared to 70% of GDP in the U.S. as of 2011.
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India is also the country with the highest predicted population growth for 2010-2015 - 135 million compared to 80 million in China.
Furthermore, in 2008, 44.6% of the 1.2 billion handsets sold globally were manufactured in China compared to 68.9% of 1.4 billion units last year.
The follow-up period in the new study was relatively short, they say, and breast-cancer diagnosis and treatment may be different in China compared to the United States.
In January exports to Canada and Mexico increased about 17%, compared with January 2009, and exports to China jumped a whopping 65%.
Compared to other major economies, China equities are looking cheap, broadly speaking.
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There are opportunities to sell cars in developing countries, but their total buying power is low compared to the total output from China.
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But compared to working conditions elsewhere in China they do seem to be good, if not better than almost all of the alternatives.
The survey reveals, once again, that the Chinese exchange rate was not hurting U.S. company competitiveness in China, compared to other market access issues.
It is also important to note that the dynamics of doing business are different in the U.S. compared to a developing economy like China.
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Nearly half of China's 513 million netizens used weibo sites - Twitter equivalents - last year compared to 63 million in 2010, the China Internet Network Information Center report said.
What is surprising, though, is just how big the China market is compared to the other industrialized countries of the world.
Consumer discretionary stocks are roughly 5% of the the total market capitalization of China Inc, compared to approximately 20% for Japan and 15% for France.
Both of these months have seen a disproportionate number of 3G subscriber additions by China Mobile as compared to the average of about 3 million in the previous months.
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Shen expected foreign direct investment in China to be stable in 2013, but warned that Europe and the U.S. could reduce FDI in China this year compared to 2012.
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Ford and its joint ventures sold 35% more cars in China in September compared to the previous year as foreign automakers continue to gain at the expense of Japanese automakers.
According to the latest Hurun Global Rich List 2013, China had 212 billionaires in 2013, compared to 211 in America.
Copper imports into China increased 11 percent compared to the previous month due to increased demand from power infrastructure, white goods restocking and auto production.
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The American investor compared China's economic rise to the rapid growth seen in the U.S. in the 20th century with the Great Depression in the 1930s.
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Growth has been particularly hit hard at its Construction Industries division in China where sales have declined compared to the mid-2011 levels.
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Lenovo doubled its smartphone sales in China in the third quarter compared to the same period last year, and its smartphone business is finally profitable.
In this case, I felt very strongly that China was the place they had to be going, because of the growth issues that I talked about but also because China was so little known compared to the European countries.
Despite having much more room to grow in China, Netease trades at 27 times estimated 2004 earnings, compared with the forward price-to-earnings multiple of 74 enjoyed by Yahoo!
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