The government has been promoting apprenticeships, vowing to give apprentices equivalent "esteem and status with university graduates".

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This became the darling of the Chinese wine market, the equivalent of a wine status symbol, so there might have been a bigger bubble there.

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Their rulers have titles or names which reflect this status - the equivalent of being called "Mr One Hundred", he says - to show the number of people below him.

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