Yet although they remain tiny compared with Chinese giants like ICBC and China Construction Bank, there is often more than a whiff of Beijing about the Indian state lenders.
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With Chinese stocks looking cheap compared with their history, and as property prices continue their years-long surge, now might be a good time to make a switch.
Last year, the average starting salary of university graduates dropped by 40% compared with 2002, according to the Chinese media.
Black Caribbean pupils had the highest permanent exclusion rate by ethnic group, at 41 in every 10, 000, compared with two in 10, 000 Chinese pupils.
Last year only 147, 000 Chinese tourists visited Britain compared with 1.2m who went to France.
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But compared with their Islamic, Indian, and Chinese counterparts they were latecomers, originally interested in importing luxury Asian goods for the European nobility and bourgeoisie in exchange for wool and woollen products or silver and gold.
That is robust compared with almost anywhere else, but to many Chinese, used to double-digit rates, it will feel like a recession.
Over 50% of Chinese watch videos online, compared with the global average of 26%, while 57% will download a movie, versus 20% worldwide.
Economistics suggests a purchasing-power parity of 14.57 Chinese yuan to the dollar, compared with the current 8.31 yuan.
Recognizing that they are behind the curve compared with other countries with developed privacy law regimes, Chinese authorities have now circulated for public comment draft guidelines governing transmission and storage of personal data on computer systems.
Soft-drink consumption is relatively tiny in developing nations: The Chinese average 23 servings a year, compared with Germans' 344 and Americans' 872.
Equities account for less than 20% of Chinese households' total financial assets, compared with half in America, so price swings have less impact on spending.
In the first ten months of 2002 trade was up 18% compared with a similar period a year ago, according to Chinese customs data cited by the Xinhua news agency.
The IPO research shop found that an investor who bought all 68 U.S.-listed China initial public offerings from 2008 through mid-June would have seen an average loss of 24%, compared with an average return of 25% on non-Chinese IPOs.
Currently, China wields 3.7% of IMF votes compared with France's 4.9%, although the Chinese economy is now 50% larger than that of France.
Sure, Baidu has numerical supremacy: One study gave it 37% of Chinese searches in 2005's second quarter, as compared with 23% for Schmidt's firm.
Compared with booming profits, rich-country workers have lost out, as Chinese factory workers, Indian software engineers and the spread of computer automation undermine bargaining power and wage growth.
A. Traditionally, business in China is bound by handshakes and verbal agreements. (In the U.S., however, ) Chinese companies must provide written documentation of issues in order to comply with the law, which Chinese businessmen may find too rigid compared to their own traditional and less formal methods of doing business.
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Chinese and Indian venture only has a 10-year history compared with 30-plus in the Valley.
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Seven Chinese VCs made the cut on the Midas List in 2013, compared with nine last year.
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Chinese banks' loans amount to only 65% of their deposits, compared with far higher ratios in America and western Europe.
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But that's nothing compared with the performance of search engine Baidu.com (375, BIDU) , known as the Chinese Google.
To fertilize the industry Qualcomm had agreed that Chinese manufacturers would pay only a 2.65%-per-handset royalty, compared with the roughly 5.5% that Koreans pay on their exports.
Chinese companies were first allowed to sell shares to the public just 20 years ago, compared with the centuries that Western stock markets have had to develop.
Of the 70 major Chinese cities tracked by NBS, 67 saw home prices increase in April compared to March, with the highest growth rate at 2.1%, down from the 3.2% in March.
The growth of the Chinese auto industry has been under pressure in recent month compared to last year when Beijing boosted demand with tax cuts and subsidies.
Rippe said it's difficult to quantify exactly how much more concentrated the supplement is compared to foods, but he said the supplements are "consistent with" supplements that have been used by in Chinese herbal medicine for thousands of years.
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