That changed with the arrival of specialist firemen from Nanjing.

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Far from downtown Nanjing, Zhang these days oversees his interests from a lush commercial park where the memory of that first store is preserved in a museum.

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China Daily reported Sunday from the Nanjing conference called The U.S.-China Cities Forum on Economic Cooperation and Investment.

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Just 90 minutes from the Nanjing airport, Yizheng is a county level city under the jurisdiction of Yangzhou Prefecture City.

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In short, daily life in a hardscrabble farming village in Szechuan province is a world away from the Shanghai Nanjing Road ritzy shopping street or even an old, walled neighborhood in Harbin, a crossroad of many cultures in northeastern China.

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Property transactions by floor space in some major cities, such as Beijing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Nanjing and Chongqing rose in May from a year earlier, according to statistics from data provider China Real Estate Information Corp.

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The report found that one-third of luxury consumption in China today came from just nine markets: Chongqing, Dongguan, Foshan, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Tianjin and Wenzhou.

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The building serves as the model for everything from seafood restaurants to single-family homes to government offices in Guangzhou, Wuxi, Shanghai, Wenling and Nanjing.

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