But make no mistake about his loyalties: Yang and his wife are also building a large home in Beijing.
Down payments for second-home buyers in Beijing were raised to 70% from the previous 60%.
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New home prices in Beijing rose by 3.3% from January 2012 and are up 1.6% from December levels.
Across the different sectors, non-manufacturing PMI for the construction industry hit a whopping 62.5, up by 4.5 percentage points over the previous month even as housing takes a beating from a new 20% tax on used home sales and a ban on same-city second home purchases in Beijing.
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Within a few minutes' walk of Meyer's home is Liulichang, Beijing's 750-meter (half-mile) antiques street which has flourished since the Yuan dynasty 800 years ago.
The magazine this year included rankings of 100 up-and-coming listed companies and 100 up-and-coming unlisted companies. (Click here for the Chinese-language details.) Beijing was home to 22 of the 100 listed companies that were ranked, tops among all cites and areas.
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Uchishiba brought gold medals home from the Athens and Beijing Games, and was feted as a national hero.
Pre-owned home sales almost tripled in Beijing last week, following the latest moves by the State Council to reign in this property market.
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But still, the expectant mother jokes that she would be an old lady before she could ever afford a home of her own in Beijing without government help.
In fact home prices in Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen have risen so far into the stratosphere that mortgage payments on them are over 80% of average annual income, according to a recent Morgan Stanley chart.
Authorities have disinfected and isolated the woman's home, and officials met in Beijing on Monday about the case, but the market is still selling ducks, Xinhua reported.
At the beginning of this year Home Depot closed its last shop in Beijing.
Phelps, who took home a record eight gold medals at Beijing 2008, hopes to add seven more to his collection.
In Beijing, water rates for home use start at just one yuan (about 12 cents) per cubic metre, far below cost, with heavy users paying a bit more.
On the opposite side you find athletes like 19-year-old Kenyan Pamela Jelimo who, having been thrust into sporting superstardom in her home country after winning 800m gold in Beijing, had a tough winter and is only just beginning to get back into shape.
Meanwhile, 2, 713 families in Beijing have been told to move home ahead of the demolition men.
Nonetheless, his home is comfortable and seals out water and Beijing's famous dust storms, Meyer said.
For all four members of the U.S. table tennis team, the Beijing Olympics will be like going home.
By contrast, PricewaterhouseCoopers thinks Britain will win 54 medals, and Daniel Johnson of Colorado College, another veteran forecaster, actually thinks Britain will win fewer medals at home than it did four years ago in Beijing (down by two to 45).
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Her new home is, without doubt, the house that Beijing built - financed by her winnings since the last Olympic Games.
In 2008, he left behind his Cape Cod style home overlooking the Bay and rented an apartment in Beijing to catch the next big trend.
By the Qing dynasty (1644 to1912), many Huizhou men had consolidated their capital to open a string of pawnshops in major cities such as Beijing, and they funnelled their profits home to fund the construction of lavish residences for their wives and children.
Like the students in Beijing, he wants to help modernize his home country one day by drawing on his experience in China.
Talking at Pine Valley, a vast Nicklaus-designed 45-hole course outside of Beijing, Nicklaus believes that China will be home to future champions as well as millions of recreational players.
"Some local authorities have 'fine-tuned' their property policies by allowing home buyers to borrow more from public housing funds, causing a rebound in home prices, " Zhang Dawei, an analyst at Beijing-based Zhongyuan Real Estate, was quoted as saying by the state news agency Xinhua.
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Pinetree offers in-home services to 50, 000 seniors and has offices in Beijing and Singapore.
In the latest effort to curb property prices, Beijing required municipal and state governments to establish new home price control targets based on economic growth and increases in disposable income.
Beijing is trying hard to curb price appreciation and Chinese home ownership is already among the highest in the world.
Further north of Qianmen is a neighborhood called Gulou that is home to the historic Drum and Bell Towers, which have helped Beijing mark the time of day for centuries.
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