But at a separate event Friday, China's central-bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan said he has already been in regular communication with the Federal Reserve, and is sympathetic to the course it is taking.

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One 20-year-old, surnamed Zhou, said he came up to the Foxconn plant from a Sony factory in Shenzhen, but he hoped to return to start a business in trading once he had saved enough money.

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Zhou Changchun says he has tried for years to get on the CCTV broadcast as the "king of bike" -- a title he claims for his ability to do bicycle tricks while clad in a colorful superhero-style outfit.

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Like many of his peers, Zhou stumbled upon golf when he left his hometown to pursue a better life in the big cities.

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He introduced a new group of artists like Zhou Tiehai and Ding Yi, who possess the unique temperament of Shanghainese artists: sensitive, radical, illusionary, subtle.

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China's central bank Gov. Zhou Xiaochuan said last month that he is on guard against inflation and that monetary policy is now "neutral, " after a slightly easy policy stance in the past year.

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The mundane job sparked Zhou's interest in the strange game -- he started sneaking out at night, rolling balls on the green and working on his swings with a broken club.

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