For instance, shortly after joining the WTO Beijing decided to target antibiotics as a growth sector and invested vast sums in building penicillin fermenters.

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In November, for instance, Beijing asked the four largest producers of cooking oil to hold off price increases until March.

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COSCO's bulk fleet, for instance, used to be run out of many different offices, with commercial management supposedly centred in Beijing.

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