But it also makes the people making the stuff better off: see that 6 times rise in Chinese wages in only 13 years.
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Having released six albums and 2 EPs since 2001, he says that CDs are so cheap in China that only his Chinese fans are still in the habit of buying hard copies of his releases.
This year there was no test of memorised basic knowledge in the Chinese language exam in Shanghai - only reading comprehension and creative writing.
Since 1995, more than 10 million PCs have been sold in China, but only one in five Chinese has Internet access.
What is more notable about these impressions is that all but a handful of the Chinese firms are essentially only capturing value in the Chinese domestic market.
He came to Chinese art in 2008 only after prices had rocketed.
Wang Tsai-kuei, one of the chief educators at the Hua Shan Forum, says his own children's grades improved markedly -- not only in Chinese studies but in all subjects.
And just around the corner of here is the Khoo Kongsi, the most spectacular assembly hall in Penang, a testament to the influence the Chinese have had on this island's culture (Penang is the only majority-Chinese state in Malaysia).
Some models sold in Brazil, like the Chinese-made JAC J3, scored only one star in a recent crash test despite having air bags and antilock brakes.
In the late summer of 2007, a fifty-year-old former barber named Siu Yun Ping began making regular visits from his village, in Hong Kong, to the city of Macau, the only Chinese territory where it is legal to gamble in a casino.
But whether or not China helped cause the crisis, there is not much debate that it needs to be part of the solution, because without higher Chinese consumption in China, the only way the global economy will become more balanced in future, with less debt on countries like Britain and America, is by those countries also having little or no economic growth.
The fund contains equity in over 200 smaller Chinese firms and has recently underperformed, gaining only 5.8% in the past year.
In the mid-1990s I found myself the only non-North Korean in a class studying Chinese in northeast China.
However, this is because Apple is only in the very initial stages of penetrating the Chinese market, which means that the iPhone is being adopted only by the very affluent and well educated tech-lover.
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Such a rise, in turn, would raise domestic gold costs for Chinese households, now second only to Indian consumers as a global force in the gold market.
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Weibo shows up in the Settings app only if a Chinese keyboard is enabled.
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Britain's Times Higher Education magazine puts Peking University 50th and only six Chinese institutions in the top 200.
Google has yet to bring its U.S. success to China--only about one in five Chinese Web searches starts at the site.
The Dutch, bronze medallists at Sydney, and the fast-improving Chinese were the only teams in the 10-nation event to win all their preliminary matches.
That is in part because foreign banks have been allowed to serve individual Chinese savers only since 2007, an opening that launched a wave of investment by the banks in branches and personnel.
The existing output supplies not only Nike but insulation used in Chinese refrigerators and in building construction.
Thirteen Chinese deals are in the pipeline, but only three have top-tier underwriters.
Patriotism, these days, may be the only thing keeping Chinese entrepreneurs in China.
The Chinese have hit only two foundries in the last three years.
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"This was a massive coup for the UK capital, showing not only the high esteem in which Chinese businesses hold British skills, but also the big retail opportunity that the UK represents, " he wrote.
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Forbes talked to Newsom on Saturday about how, at a time when so many American cities are chasing Chinese investment, San Francisco pulled in those businesses, and why Chinese investment in the U.S. energy industry, a sensitive area where only five years ago the proposed purchase of Unocal (now part of Chevron) by Chinese state-run Cnooc ran into political turbulence, is now seemingly more welcomed.
In environmental news, Xinhua flags up a survey by the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences showing that only 22.2%of shallow groundwater in the North China Plain is drinkable because of pollution.
According to reports cited this week by iFeng (Chinese), e-commerce only accounted for about 2.6% of the total revenue in the Chinese luxury market last year, but owing to changing consumer attitudes towards online shopping, rising brand awareness and improved supply chains, the industry is projected to grow around 20% annually.
Bouillonnec is surely correct, but only for sales to the Chinese in China.
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