Five years ago China surpassed the US in gold production and five years from now it will own more gold than the US Federal government.
Clinton's trip includes one day in Japan, one day in South Korea and five days in China.
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The World Health Organization says there have now been five deaths in China from a new bird flu virus.
It operates approximately 27 beverage and food plants and five farms throughout China and employs more than 20, 000 people in the country.
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David Sandalow, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Energy for Policy and International Affairs, has been to China five times in five months.
After that, during this five year period China also plans to send a rover to the Moon, collect samples, and then return to Earth.
Gotabaya Rajapaksa, another sibling, who is the defence secretary, has noted that the president has visited China five times in office and three times before.
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And for those still trying to get a handle on the devastation inflicted by Hurricane Sandy, consider this: Of the 10 deadliest natural disasters in world history, five were in China.
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Disney plans on expanding from 11 to 148 schools across China in five years.
Per unit of growth, Brazil reduced its proportional poverty rate five times more than China or India did.
All five are originally from China but have close foreign ties.
The Copenhagen Accord is based on a proposal tabled on Friday by a US-led group of five nations - including China, India, Brazil and South Africa.
Back in December, China Law Blog impresario and China Tracker contributor Dan Harris offered his list of 10 best books on China, five of which were praised on our podcast.
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As one factory boss said to me last month, wages for factory workers in China are now five times higher than in Vietnam, so he's moved all his labour-intensive work out of China.
Burning coal to supply most of its electricity makes Australia's emissions per person among the world's highest: ten times bigger than Indonesia's, five times bigger than China's and almost three times those of France.
In fact, Chen Zhengli, Secretary General of the Mining Machinery Branch of the Construction Machinery Industry Association, predicts that the local companies will account for 50% of the excavator market in China within five years.
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This is important because the five-year plan estimates that China will need to create 45 million new jobs over the next five years, a staggering 10 million new jobs each and every year.
Executives have been pressing officials in China to include GE's advanced boiling-water reactors in their next five-year economic plan (China uses the pressurized reactors championed by perennial GE rival Westinghouse, now part of British Nuclear Fuels Ltd.).
The number of confirmed H7N9 bird flu cases in China increased by five to 87 today.
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The deal is part of a five-year plan by China to get more people using open source software.
That was little more than 1% of foreign investment in Europe, which pumped five times as much into China.
The U.S. signed five separate trade contracts with China on Monday, Xinhua reported.
What is known of the economic impact in China is that five-star hotels in Beijing are registering occupancy rates of around 20%.
The company is betting that its Five Star subsidiary can make China the retailer's largest overseas market, one that could rival U.S. operations.
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The next five years will also see China paving the way towards putting a human being on the Moon, making it only the second country to have done so.
It remains unclear, however, whether Iran would follow this with a full suspension of enrichment, which remains the condition set by America, Britain, France, Russia and China, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany for letting Iran off the sanctions hook.
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