The administrators, some teachers, and an eleven-year-old half-American, half-Chinese pianist named Vanessa waited for Lang Lang.
Hu Angang of Tsinghua University estimates that half of Chinese growth per person in 1978-98 can be attributed to the increase in capital stock per head.
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Many analysts, including myself, believed in the early part of the last decade that domestic makers would rather speedily take over more than half the Chinese handset market.
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The American-born son of a half-Chinese commoner accidentally inherits a throne close to extinction and revives it, creating one of the world's most powerful and wealthy monarchies, and surely the only one of any significance to have gained in political power in modern times.
More than half of wealthy Chinese and 49 percent of Japanese say that brands that discount their merchandise are not truly luxury brands.
The Coca-Cola Company holds as much as half of the domestic Chinese market for carbonated beverages, but the juice business is highly fragmented.
Half those qualify as Chinese companies backed by U.S. venture capital funds that went public on U.S. exchanges, according to data released by the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).
He replaced shopping bags manufactured in Europe with Chinese facsimiles at half the cost.
Half these genomes will be Chinese, but the institute's researchers intend to sample the full geographical range of humanity.
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There are more than half a dozen publicly listed Chinese gaming companies, and over 100 more with viable products, according to BDA, a consultancy based in Beijing.
Because the value of imported inputs accounts for about half of the value of Chinese exports, a stronger Yuan reduces the prices of imported inputs used to manufacture and assemble products in China for export to the United States and elsewhere.
The consumption component of the Chinese economy is about half that of the U.S. economy.
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Of that amount, less than half reflected the actual costs of Chinese imports.
We found out later that Arthur McKechnie mostly just got dressed up in his odd clothes and sat alone in a Chinese restaurant with a half bottle of white wine and a plate of crispy fried duck.
The Chinese investors are starting with smaller investments in Japan and analyzing the market: more than half of all Japanese companies so far targeted by Chinese investors are SMEs with annual sales of less than JPNY1 billion.
When a bellman in a Shanghai hotel advised me to get a breakfast coupon from Lashou.com, a Chinese group-buying site, for less than half the price, I knew that social commerce had gotten into the hearts and minds of Chinese consumers.
The icing on the cake: Half the deal with be conducted in Chinese yuan.
This in turn accounted for practically all the increase in Chinese GDP in the first half of this year.
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She is watching the same TV show that he is (whiskey half drained on his coffee table, Chinese takeout in his lap), and although this fact assures us of a destined romance, it is not so useful for the people on the screen.
Church leaders in Myitkyina say Chinese people make up more than half the population.
The rising Chinese middle class, now approaching half a billion, has created enormous opportunities for U.S. companies.
Even before that addition, Ng says, East West had nearly half of its business loans with non-Chinese customers.
So we did a JV with Gymboree U.S. and set up a Chinese business here a year and half ago.
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The market promises to be huge: The average person in China drinks less than half a bottle each year, according to Chinese government statistics.
At a recent industry forum Liu Binjie, the director of China's General Administration of Press and Publication, the industry regulator, said China would like to see such partnerships between studios and publishers lead to a massive consolidation, leaving half a dozen giant companies capable of spreading Chinese words internationally.
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